Steel continues to dominate the Bally’s Casino construction site in River West, as crews from the Chicago Community Builders Collective continue to progress. In the six weeks or so since our last visit, the iron framework has risen from a single level to the seventh story at the north end of the site.
As Bally’s Casino and its conjoined hotel tower continue to grow in River West, so does the formidable list of permits for the sprawling project at the old Chicago Tribune Freedom Center site.
Plans have been revealed for a residential development at 930 West Huron Street in River West. Located at the corner of North Sangamon Street and bounded by West Superior Street to the north, the project would replace an existing three-story loft building that most recently housed a pair of architecture offices, including that of Muller2, one of the firm behind O’Hare’s Terminal 5.
The steel framework for Bally’s Casino is beginning to take shape along the Chicago River in River West. While the project’s single tower crane takes the hotel structure vertical, three giant Manitowoc crawler cranes are doing the heavy lifting here at the north end of the construction site.
The Bally’s Casino hotel tower is starting to sprout upward, as construction crews from The Chicago Community Builders Collective continue their work on the 34-story, 500-room hotel in River West.
