McDonald’s Park isn’t the only job site in town with a shiny new yellow Liebherr tower crane; there is now a 420 EC-H doing the heavy lifting for the parking garage at The 1901 Project, too. The crane’s base was planted in the Neat West Side ground back in July. We can’t say exactly when the rest of it was erected, but it’s been there long enough to set some heavy ironwork over the below-ground loading dock off Damen Avenue.
Updated renderings have been revealed and additional permits have been pulled for the first phase of the massive 1901 Project around the United Center. Led by the owning families of the arena and both the Chicago Bulls and Blackhawks, the multi-phase development will slowly replace all of the arena’s surrounding surface parking lots, which rarely reach capacity.
The tower crane has been planted for construction of the first phase of The 1901 Project on the Near West Side. The west parking facility that McHugh (Construction) and McHugh (Concrete) are building now is the first structure of the megadevelopment from Bulls and Blackhawks ownership. They got permission to begin work in March when the caisson permit was issued; those were well underway when they broke ground on the development in June.
Last week was a busy one for The 1901 Project on the city’s Near West Side. The Blackhawks and Bulls hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday for the development, which got started on the Phase 1 parking garage this spring. On Tuesday, the day before ceremonial shovels dug into the ceremonial trough of dirt, a permit was issued to begin caisson work on the music hall replacing the former K parking lot at South Damen Avenue and West Adams Street, situated just south of the parking garage work site.
An official groundbreaking has been held for the first phase of The 1901 Project, set to replace the sea of parking lots around the United Center. The massive project has been in the works for a few years and recently received approval for its tax incentives ahead of the ceremony. Demolition and preconstruction work have already been underway for a few weeks.
