^Nice. That one has grown quickly.

340OTP at night:
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/4690/372963415ddc9b4d154bat6.jpg

Regatta and Chandler (facade about halfway up):
http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/2884/37389088713bc869524obh0.jpg

^^

Awesome views...we dont get to see them from that angle too often!

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/4730/388367809509c43bc61bnt6.jpg
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/6885/3892187119aefec2c9cbic3.jpg
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/6241/389039050a1a30f83ddblu3.jpg

From Aon:
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/6030/3896788399380aa0760bgg5.jpg
http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/7465/389680096124dd4f66ebof8.jpg

Aqua should start construction officially very soon.

Some cool interior shots of 340OTP from 340owners
Pool
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/4972/c361sq1.jpg

Kitchen
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9463/c362fe1.jpg
Bathroom
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/5196/c363uu1.jpg

Shot of Tides and Chandler U/C
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8553/c360zz7.jpg

^^ the last pic is the best

The Chandler is T/O, is it not?

^^ i belive just about, i was by it about a week ago and it looked pretty much done

from 3-4

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/4545/dsc07189resizedfw5.jpg

http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/2420/dsc07190resizednd2.jpg

I've changed the status of Aqua to U/C. Also, Chandler is officially TO.

Tides from 3/08/07
Pics by geoff_diamond:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/414942236_3fa77cf018_o.jpg

Chandler
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/149/414942414_ae86aaf719_o.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/414942452_1f26ae8678_o.jpg

And 340OTP. It looks so beautiful before it's occupied.
danthediscoman
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/7012/340ontheparkiiivy7.jpg
http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/7051/340glassvl6.jpg

3-11

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7156/dsc07313bu9.jpg

http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/6528/dsc07314fz3.jpg

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http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/7071/dsc07319yv5.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7048/dsc07320up8.jpg

I am in love with 340OTP

whats the price range going to be on the condos?

I am in love with 340OTP

whats the price range going to be on the condos?

700k - 4million

Just a quick look at the lakeshore east-

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/177/424558058_a91b85ef82.jpg

What will be the next launch after The Aqua for Lakeshore East?

^Probably a tower next to Regatta in the 80 story range.

Pics from yesterday by pherek on SSP

340OTP
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Tides
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/108/img1969ho9.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/8984/img1972vg0.jpg

Chandler and Regatta
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5402/img1978yf4.jpg

Photos by vxla:

340OTP:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/4402/434575367b5a6d70fb5brm3.jpg

Tides:
http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/5700/434581477b9109473c4bid8.jpg
^^You can see the bank branches invading LSE already

Lancaster, Shoreham, Regatta, Chandler
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http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/8481/4346038696b14034ac3bjc3.jpg

Looking good!!!!

- Changed the rendering of Aqua
- Chandler is now TO

Recent photo by SolarWind
http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/3359/dsc0126copyte2.jpg

There is a LakeShore East insider on SSP and he has hinted towards:

1,070' tower to be announced once Aqua has been sold out.
The architectonica designed building will be 900'+ and "has a big hole piercing the top".

And the best yet:
there will be a total of four 80+ story buildings within the LakeShore East Park along the river and Columbus, and a few that are 70 or more.

Bring on the supertalls!

There is a LakeShore East insider on SSP and he has hinted towards:

1,070' tower to be announced once Aqua has been sold out.
The architectonica designed building will be 900'+ and "has a big hole piercing the top".

And the best yet:


Bring on the supertalls!

if that is true, that will be amazing :banana:

if that is true, that will be amazing :banana:

Yea, you sort of can't help but be suspicious about it. Almost too good to be true. We'll see.

Taken today:

The Tides:
http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/9534/tides416df2.jpg

Random shot:
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5167/lse1my3.jpg

^Nice photo.

The Regatta is now officially listed as complete. It is the third completed building in LSE, and will [hopefully] be joined by 340OTP and Chandler this summer.

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5316/4726181647af0fb5b77bsx5.jpg
Dawn Anthony
^You can see the equipment working on Aqua to the right of Aon in that photo as well.

nice this project came out very nicely

^^ exellent shot!

^^ exellent shot!


I agree:) , if you are refering to spyguys pic.

They re going to build some great buildings!

Great photos from SolarWind yesterday

May 3, 2007
340 on the Park
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May 3, 2007
The Tides
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May 3, 2007
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Awesome pics

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0705080693may09,0,1695623.story?coll=chi-business-utl


INSIDE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Unique opening planned for Lakeshore East mixed-use building

BY SUSAN DIESENHOUSE
Published May 9, 2007


A $400-million, 76-story mixed-use tower is being planned for Lakeshore East by Magellan Development LLC.

The striking design by Miami-based Arquitectonica features a 20-story opening through the building's midsection. The tower, which will rise at 375 E. Wacker Dr., has two intersecting components programmed to house a five-star hotel with 224 suites, as many as 671 condominiums and six stories of underground parking.

The sale of condominiums, priced from $500,000 to about $3 million, will start in August. By mid-2008, construction will get under way. The first residents are expected to move in two years later, said Jim Loewenberg, co-chief executive of Magellan.

So far at Lakeshore East, seven buildings with about 2,500 residential units have been built or are in construction. In total, the developer might put up 16 major buildings with about 5,000 units, Loewenberg said.

great news :okay:

is that the park michigan tower?

great news :okay:

is that the park michigan tower?

No. Park Michigan isn't in LSE.

uups :D

yeah! thank god this one's finally announced--though i thought it'd be significantly taller...

even so, I CAN'T WAIT to see some renderings of this. between aqua and this new one, hopefully Lakeshore East can rise above its Low-end-berg architectural status.

bring it on!

Here's a screenshot of the rendering of the Arquitectonica building I scanned from the Tribune:
http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/1121/lse2db5.png

^^ Very nice:banana: This is what I would have liked to have seen in MOMO. A tall keyhole that you can see the skyline through. Imagine if you can see the Chicago Spire through this.

Looks great!

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/5347/arquitectonicaxf5.png

340 On The Park, 5-13-07

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5849/dsc07799he1.jpg

http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5769/arquitectonicacolorno4.jpg

NewcitySkyline

76-story mixed use tower planned for Lakeshore East

Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Chicago, IL, US - A 76-story mixed-use tower designed by Miami-based Arquitectonica is planned for Chicago’s prestigious Lakeshore East community, accompanying completed and under-construction towers developed by Magellan Development Group LLC, including: The Tides, The Lakeshore, The Regatta, 340 on the Park, The Parkhomes, and Aqua.

The new $400 million tower will be located at 375 East Wacker Drive and will house a five-star hotel with 224 suites, 671 condominiums and six stories of underground parking.

Read more at NewcitySkyline (http://www.newcityskyline.com/ArquitectonicaBuilding.html).

Awesome news! I like it.

May 23, 2007

Aqua
http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/8241/dsc0329copyka4.jpg

May 23, 2007

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/8717/dsc0314tt9.jpg

Taken today:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/8117/340otp1ht5.jpg

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6699/340otp2nz1.jpg

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5889/340otp3wc4.jpg

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/6500/340otpslantedcb4.jpg

Awesome pics, Hydrogen. I haven't seen the side view before.

I like it!

6-9-2007

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http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4590/dsc08026py0.jpg


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Pics from 340 owners
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http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5497/c364mt3.jpg
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/8063/c369te6.jpg

The Tides - Taken by pherek at SSP on 6/25/07:

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5138/img2970dn2.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/6262/img2976tm3.jpg

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5051/img2977ol4.jpg

fantastic pictures :)

chi649 those photos are amazing!

^^ Thanks a lot emutiny :)

June 29,2007


http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f21/cbotnyse/Picture115.jpg

Taken today:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8697/340otp1gv0.jpg

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http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/7307/340otpvertcr3.jpg

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/5389/340otpbasqs3.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/4396/340otp8gi3.jpg

wow. Amazing shot..

One more shot from today:
https://community.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2007/07/548069.jpg

I like it

^^ So do I. :) Good height and nice colours too.

:cheers:

A few shots of 340 On the Park, but from the inside.

https://community.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2007/07/548191.jpg

https://community.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2007/07/548192.jpg

https://community.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2007/07/548193.jpg

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ARCHITECTURE
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/reviews/critics/chi-0722_towerjul22,1,2859798.story

340 on the Park a welcome breath of fresh design

By Blair Kamin | Tribune architecture critic
July 22, 2007

If you think the twisting, soon-to-be-under-construction Chicago Spire is the only skyscraper that wants to shake up Chicago's skyline, then think again. One of the best of the rest, a freshly completed, 64-story condominium tower called 340 on the Park, is Chicago's first green residential high-rise and, for now at least, its tallest all-residential building. But those superlatives would be meaningless if this tower, which was ceremonially "unveiled" Wednesday, did not make such a robust contribution to the skyline.

As its name suggests, 340 on the Park rises from a site at 340 E. Randolph Drive, just east of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois building and just north of Grant Park. It is, to date, the most visible part of the 28-acre Lakeshore East complex, where developers Jim Loewenberg and Joel Carlins may erect as many as 16 major buildings with about 5,000 residential units on what once was a nine-hole golf course. And for its architect, Martin Wolf of the Chicago firm of Solomon Cordwell Buenz, it is his most prominent commission -- a 672-foot-tall, 343-unit tower that is plainly visible to sailors on Lake Michigan, to motorists on Lake Shore Drive and to parkgoers in Grant Park.

Rises to the occasion

This is a grand stage, where an architect can either rise to the occasion or flop. Wolf, a skilled pro who left Helmut Jahn's shop 10 years ago after contributing to such masterpieces as the United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport, has done the former, designing not just an arresting form, but one that does much to uplift the city around it. His principal client on the project was Chicago-based Related Midwest, which developed the property in association with Loewenberg and Carlins.

It would be an overstatement to call this tower revolutionary, but it does make some intriguing departures from familiar archetypes for high-rise living. Take Lake Point Tower, that black, Y-shaped, suavely curving object next to Navy Pier. Its sleek glass skin looks impenetrable. You get the feeling that nobody in there ever opens up a window. In contrast, Wolf has cracked open a big part of 340's exterior. On the 25th floor, there's a two-story winter garden that comes with 14-foot-tall swinging glass doors. They let in fresh air and had to be specially engineered so Chicago's ferocious winds would not tear them apart.

The doors give onto a wide balcony with a knock-your-eyes-out view of Frank Gehry's snaking BP Bridge, the trellis of his Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, Sears Tower, the skyline, you name it. On the same floor are a two-lane, 25-yard lap pool and a whirlpool with views out onto Grant Park. The tower's residents -- people in just a handful of units had moved in as of last Monday -- will thus be able to indulge themselves and feel virtuous because they live in a green building. This may make 340 the Lexus hybrid of architecture.

More important for the rest of us, Wolf has sensitively inserted this tower into the city, taking a page from the book of the great riverfront office building at 333 W. Wacker Drive and giving 340 slightly different looks, each appropriate for its context.

Toward the south, facing Grant Park, the tower is respectfully rectilinear, joining with its neighbors on Randolph to line the formal, Beaux-Arts park with a dramatic, clifflike wall. Toward the north, facing the more relaxed geometry of Lakeshore East's contemporary park, 340 breaks free with a gently curving wall. Toward the east, a sharp-edged prow of glass joins these seemingly disparate parts, making an appropriate nautical nod to the lake.

The most distinctive aspect of Wolf's design, however, is a classic case of necessity being the mother of invention. His clients wanted the vast majority of the units to have balconies. That made Wolf nervous because balconies often force architects to design banal stacks of outdoor terraces, their monotonous repetition made even more ugly by railings that look like old-fashioned jail-cell doors.

Two-layered exterior

To escape this trap, Wolf conceived a two-layered exterior that consists of an "inner building" clad in insulating, blue-green glass and an outer shell of aluminum panels painted white. Every five stories, horizontal bands of the aluminum streak across the facade, lending 340 a muscular urban scale that allows it to stand up to its neighbors, the much-taller Aon Center and the much-wider Blue Cross Blue Shield building.

Some Chicago architects have privately complained to me about this device, which Solomon Cordwell Buenz uses incessantly, saying that it is not "honest" because the horizontal bands, or spandrels, express one floor of the building's exterior and then skip the next four. "The skipped spandrel syndrome," they call it.

"If that's honesty, no thanks," Wolf replied when I passed on this complaint. "I'd rather be deceitful and artful."

But this isn't deceit. It's relaxed rationalism, a loosening up of the rigid strictures of the Second Chicago School of Architecture dominated by the structurally expressive steel and glass boxes of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. And it is, for the most part, artful, even if it divorces skin from structures.

On the handsomely composed facade facing Grant Park, for example, Wolf skillfully mixes horizontals and verticals, elements that project and those that recess. Counteracting the horizontal bands, his projecting balconies sweep up the facade like giant vertebrae. The overall effect is richly layered, carefully modulated and as human-scaled as a 64-story tower can reasonably expect to be. The tower suggests a series of neighborhoods stacked in the air. The facade is so varied that it almost seems personalized. You could easily point in the direction of a unit and say, "That's where I live."

The asymmetrically composed facade along Lakeshore East's park, which features serrated balconies carved into its glass surface, doesn't come off as well. It's more monolithic, even a bit menacing with its stacked balconies suggesting a monster's teeth. But Wolf somehow tames it, wrapping a wafer-thin layer of white aluminum around the glass like a sailboat's jib. I've witnessed this effect from the lake, where you can glimpse the narrow open space between the prow and this "jib," and it's striking. Again tweaking convention, the most distinctive feature of the skyscraper isn't on the top, but on the side.

Skyscrapers aren't just sculptures meant to be ogled from afar, of course. They're supposed to be good neighbors and 340 does well here, too.

At ground level, Wolf breaks down the tower's scale with projecting canopies and tries to enliven the concrete desert of Randolph Drive with sidewalk planters that will brim with trees and greenery. There's going to be a Starbucks in the building's western corner, which will add life to the street even if it won't be unique. Someday, the developers promise, pedestrians will be able to walk along the west side of 340 and descend to Lakeshore East's sunken park via indoor stairs, escalators and elevators that are supposed to go into a still-to-be-built supermarket along the park.

For now, we can be happy that all six levels of parking for this building are stuffed below Randolph Drive, the top layer of a triple-deck street system that traffic engineers once devised based on the hard-headed belief that cities are machines for moving cars and trucks. In a way, they've turned out to be right. So 340's condo units start on the second floor and not on the seventh or eighth floor sitting atop one of those hideous parking garage podiums like the ones in Loewenberg and Carlins' buildings in River North.

Wolf's handling of 340's interior also merits praise, starting with a lobby that forgoes the pretentious custom of outfitting a modern building with paneled, dark wood walls that scream "Ye Olde Men's Club." He wisely opts instead for a contemporary aesthetic that features a warm elm canopy sweeping over the front desk. The units themselves are well planned, wisely emphasizing views with details such as pass-through kitchens and (in most cases) floor to ceiling glass.

But the piece de resistance is the 25th floor, which adds a fresh dimension to high-rise living -- a town square/social center that prevents the skyscraper from being a series of stacked, anonymous floors, all separate from each other. Here, one can exercise or socialize, and do it in style. Wolf has designed the winter garden and its adjoining rooms not as chopped-up cubbyholes, but as a suite, with a common 20-foot ceiling. His balcony doesn't just replicate the amenity floors plopped atop a typical condo building but thrusts out into space. "It's a big eyeball out onto the world," Wolf says, which is half right.

As easy as it is to imagine people looking out from this viewing platform, it's just as easy to imagine people in Millennium Park looking up at the people looking down at them. It's not quite Romeo and Juliet but it's better than the impenetrable residential towers of the past -- expressing, not concealing, the vitality of this vertical village and subtly layering green elements into the design rather than awkwardly trumpeting them with such bells and whistles as rooftop solar panels.

This skyscraper represents a bold-conceived, well-executed way to go green. May we have more like it.

- - -

City's first green residential tower

340 on the Park is Chicago's first green residential tower, a long overdue achievement for the city, which Mayor Richard Daley wants to make the greenest in America.

The first green residential tower in the U.S., the Solaire, located in New York City's Battery Park City, opened four years ago.

340 on the Park is expected to achieve a silver rating in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, which serves as a sort of Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for environmentally friendly design. Silver is the third highest LEED rating after platinum and gold.

Among the building's green features: tinted, insulated exterior glass that controls the amount of heat gain and heat loss; extensive plaza-level plantings and a landscaped second-floor roof that will absorb stormwater; and a water storage tank with a capacity of 11,000 gallons. The tank holds rainwater and allows it to be reused for irrigating the building's landscaping.

bkamin@tribune.com

August 22, 2007

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The area is looking so good. And there still more to come! :)

Oh my god, this whole area is too good to be true.

It looks like Heaven (my idea of heaven :) )

Thinner side of 340OTP
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SimplyWithStyle

The Tides, taken on 9/1/07:
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http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/4172/tides91etalig3.jpg

LSE from above, photo by BartShore on flickr
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fantastic aerial shot :)

great shots for a good building !

October 3, 2007

The Tides
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Aqua pics from EarlyBuyer on SSP

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Parkhomes (midrise townhomes) also from EarlyBuyer
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http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3884/dscn8629kp4.jpg

http://www.suntimes.com/business/roeder/665566,CST-NWS-lakeshore25.article

New neighborhood bursts onto scene
DOWNTOWN BOOM | Lakeshore East plans 4,950 homes

November 24, 2007
BY DAVID ROEDER

Tall building could draw ire

The developers are talking a trade with the city: Surrendering one of the development sites for the school, probably along Columbus Drive south of the Aqua. In exchange, the city would grant zoning authority for buildings a little taller than a current maximum of about 70 stories near Lake Shore Drive.

Loewenberg and Carlins won't discuss specifics, but the danger is that anything extremely tall could overwhelm the neighborhood sense they've carefully built around the park. Also, the same buyers they're signing up could become the political force opposing taller buildings.

Aqua is taking shape now.

December 19, 2007
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The whole development isn't particularily inspiring. Aqua is hot though:cheers:

Hiya guys,

i found making my vids relaxing so i used my spare time to make a nice christmas gift featureing the AQUA for your all to enjoy

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv6BXquwL_4

Hope you all like it and HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Been awhile...any updates on LSE?

A couple shots of 340 OTP from my lunch break:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/2440/340otp215sb7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/3748/340otp2154ly8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Parkhomes May 4
Photos by EarlyBuyer on SSP
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340 on the park looks very modern.

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/4655/2554505093f825da221dbtz5.jpg
http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/2464/2555324324c8418f716dbtu9.jpg
Matt Cornish / flickr

:applause:, the last shot shows why i love chicago so much :)

Amazing shots :D

I actually really dig the townhomes! Adds some street level interest! Any retail planned?

Parkhomes construction update by Early Buyer:

Photo's taken by EarlyBuyer 6/14/08
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Lakeshore East project lifts Magellan to top

By Susan Diesenhouse | Chicago Tribune reporter
August 1, 2008

In this new feature, we turn the spotlight on builders and developers in the Chicago area to give you insight on what sets them apart from the crowd.

A great location, moderate prices for a luxury product and a quick sellout has been the formula for developing Lakeshore East, an enormous project that has catapulted Magellan Development Group LLC into the top tier of Chicago developers...

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-magellan-builder_chomes_0801aug01,0,3137964.story

Great article.

Taken today:
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8461/lse812pi4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

LSE Skyline from 9/20:
http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/852/lse920gy2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

View of the park (taken tonight):
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6634/lsebq9.jpg

Awesome pic hydrogen :) Great lights!

Simply wonderful pictures!

What's that purple dome thing in the last picture?

What's that purple dome thing in the last picture?

I think that it is a swimmingpool under a glass dome, look a few pages back to see a better pic.

I think that it is a swimmingpool under a glass dome, look a few pages back to see a better pic.

Thanks.

Various LSE updates (http://www.lakeshoreeast.com/community-blog/?p=289)

Aqua
- The hotel component still in the negotiation phase. Magellan has 2 -3 contenders to replace the previous contracted hotel vendor (Strategic - Fairmont Suites).
- Pedway, Grand Staircase and public elevator will be open to the public summer 09.

Village Market
- Magellan is currently working on securing a new, larger grocer as well as a few other restaurants and an extension of 5th 3rd Bank.
- Treasure Island is no longer the grocer. The new plan expands from the previous 30,000 square foot boutique grocery store to a proposed 50,000 square foot full service grocery store. At this point Magellan is in the final stages of negotiating the lease. Grocer will be announce as soon as we have a secure lease.
- Once we have signed leases for multiple tenants and final city permits Magellan will feel more confident about securing financing and breaking ground.
- Magellan feels the new permits will occur in late spring.

School
- As of today the school is on hold.
- Discussion with the city and the Chicago Public School District isto incorporate a K-4 or possiby a K-8 school at the base of a future high rise development.
- Funding and population are challenges.

The park is wonderful. Water fountains, dog play areas, great landscaping and just a great sight from above...

The townhouses around the perimeter drive are finishing up and look great as well.

good!!!

Great complex!

anyone got some new shots?

http://www.globest.com/news/1410_1410/chicago/178662-1.html

Magellan Completes Sales at $138M The Chandler
By Cari Brokamp

..."The community we've created here is a place where people still want to buy and live, despite the economy," Gordon tells GlobeSt.com. "We'd still like to get another building going because of the lack of inventory and continued demand for units."

...Magellan currently has its sights on two more properties, on which it plans to build another two condo buildings, likely offering around 250 units each. "Financing is going to drive everything right no, so as soon as some capital frees up, we'll get another building going," Gordon says. "The nice thing is that Lakeshore East has been hit the least by the economy, and so will be the first to pop out when the economy takes back off."

^ 250 units is quite much. 150+ maybe 200m+ towers?

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7241/3692702334cfefe3dcb8b.jpg
Stung726/ flickr

You can see the Parkhomes in the back.

Este tipo de construccion se parece a los que hay en Panamá

http://www.VoyPorFuera.Com
:cheers:

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3895369064_657ef51e8d_o.jpg

wow, really great photos.

yes, great photos

supreme!!!

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Great pic of my building!! Thanks for the photos

Love the dusk shots! Excellent photos.

Lakeshore East is an enormous complex situated on what once was land used by the Illinois Central Railroad rail yards and was intended to be part of the Illinois Center.

Master plan by SOM:
http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/9773/1769972xc.jpg

Maps showing Lakeshore East in relationship with its surroundings:
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This complex is one of the largest in the US under construction right now.
Only 9.7 out of 14.5 million sq. ft will be utilized
5,000 residential units planned
6 acre park
14 residential towers
2 office towers
Future elementary school for residents (either in or around complex)
Market place as well as other convenience shopping

Tower Name/ Height/ Floors/ Completion Date
340 on the Park 205 m 64 2007
The Tides 152 m 51 2008
The Regatta 142 m 45 2007
The Shoreham 137 m 47 2005
The Chandler 118 m 36 2008
The Lancaster 99 m 30 2005
Aqua 250 m 82 2009
375 East Wacker 281m 76
Lakeshore East Building 2-O 198 m 2008
Lakeshore East Building 2-A 168 m 2008
Lakeshore East Building 3-I 160 m 2010
Lakeshore East Building 1-K 128 m
Lakeshore East Building 3-J 104 m 2010
Lakeshore East Building 3-L 85 m 2010

Completed
Under Construction
Approved
Proposed

Completed:
340 On The Park (from scb.com)
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The Tides
http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8863/tidesha0.jpg

The Regatta (from dplusp.com)
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/8733/untitled1ey9.jpg

The Shoreham (by Daniel Kiekower)
http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/9329/shorehamdankiekowerjk6.jpg

The Chandler (from dplusp.com)
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1200/untitled2fa8.jpg

The Lancaster (by Daniel Kiekower)
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/41/lancasterdanielkiekowernj8.jpg


Under Construction
Aqua
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6845/aquaresizedaw8he6.jpg

ParkHomes
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/3717/lsetownhomesyu2.jpg


Approved

Proposed
Arquitectonica Proposal (375 East Wacker)
http://img117.imageshack.us/img117/5769/arquitectonicacolorno4.jpg


Used to be you had the choice in the centre lane to turn up Yonge or continue straight. They've repainted the lines so that the centre lane must continue straight. Saw a few cruisers there this morning giving tickets to anyone turning up Yonge from the centre lane.

They've also given pedestrians the right of way to cross Yonge at those lights (unless the green left turn arrow is on). I didn't expect it and almost ran one over the other day.


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Taken on 9/10:
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Another breathtaking update! :drool: Can't wait to go there in october.

Fabulous building!

Taken on 9/10
dude you take AMAZING photos

http://www.bisnow.com/chicago_commercial_real_estate_news_story.php?p=7037

TRANSFORMING MILLENNIUM'S SHORE

...The developer's Aqua building, a wavy-edged tower designed by Studio Gang's Jeanne Gang, is part of Lakeshore and has just 35 condos left to sell. Aqua's apartments are 85% leased, and David says its space for a hotel should be signed in the next 30 days. He tells us the retail project should break ground next week, including a 60k-SF Roundy's grocery store and a Three Forks Steakhouse.

...Since then, it’s consistently had a building in the works, one after the next, though frigid financing has slowed recent starts. Still he expects to start six to nine new buildings on the shore site this decade.

Village Market Center- Roundy's supermarket, III Forks Steakhouse, Eggy's, 5/3 Bank
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3673/268688.jpg

^^ hell yea I was hoping something like that would be built here for those beautiful townhouses, residential buildings, the hospital, and the street, this is going to be a great area. Im glad to see that the roof will be giving access to the buildings that were like 30 feet off the ground before because of the garages, looks like the blue cross has an entrance and the other ones can get in through the patio. This is great for chicago. All they need to do now is throw some tennis courts, basketball courts, and a baseball diamond or something in that park for all the people who live there now.

Village Market construction - photos by EarlyBuyer on SSP
The Case Foundation Rigs Are Being Set Up On The Site Of The Village Market Center At Lakeshore East

Photo's taken by EarlyBuyer, lunchbreak 3/15/10

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Beautiful development. Great to give the place more life and activity

Nice pictures, we all looking forward for the grocery store and complex! Also, hope we will get a school soon too. There are some foreclosures in this neighborhood too, but they sell fast!

http://www.roundys.com/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=240

Roundy's Supermarkets Unveils New Name for Chicagoland Stores

Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc. today announced the name for its new Chaicagoland stores, "Mariano's Fresh Market." The name is a nod to the Italian culinary heritage of Roundy's CEO Bob Mariano. The new stores will reflect old-world adherence to quality and personal service, blended with Mariano's signature approach to supermarket innovation.

Mariano is thrilled to be back in Chicago and proud to once again provide the community with what he calls "the aisle by aisle selection and the value every shopper deserves." Mariano's Fresh Market will epitomize their brand promise: Shop Well. Eat Well. Live Well. The emphasis of the new stores will be on fresh offerings in produce, meat, seafood, bakery and deli, with prepared foods available for breakfast, lunch and dinner. The full-service shopping experience will include natural and organic products, and a wide selection of homeopathic remedies.

The wine and spirits department, sushi bar, and Italian themed cafe featuring espresso, gelato, and panini are attractions that are sure to elevate the shopping experience to a new level.

...The Chicago East Loop location will be the first full-service grocery store to open downtown in many years and is designed to be part of the new condo development at 340 East Randolph Street, slated for completion in 2011.

THANKSSSSSSSSS BESTTT WEB WWW.MONEYMONEY2.TK WWW.WOWLIFE.TK

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Karyn Firlit/ flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/karynfirlit/4485368760/)

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From Aqua's podium ?

Taken on 9/10:
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nice!

^Thanks.

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Village market construction update by EarlyBuyer on SSP
Photos by EarlyBuyer 6/10/10-Lunchbreak

Not many tower cranes around town these days...good to see one!
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:applause: Incredible!

I'm probably not the first person too say or think this but The Regatta reminds me so much of Freshwater Place in Melbourne:


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Freshwater_Place_2008.jpg
http://www.contractfire.com.au/images/freshwater.jpg

Well, I think The Regatta was built first though.

Well, I think The Regatta was built first though.
No. FWP was completed in 2005. The Regatta was 2006.

Update from SSP on the Village Market Center
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EarlyBuyer[/B];4897042]Photos by EarlyBuyer taken 6/30/10-Lunchbreak

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This zone is looking great. Nice projects with good design, and they are following a masterplan developed by SOM...how more nice it could be?? :okay:

http://www.rejournals.com/2010/08/18/luxury-still-sells-at-lakeshore-east/

Luxury still sells at Lakeshore East
August 18, 2010 | Mark Thomton

...Carlins says that the next high rise will be similar to Aqua in that it will support rental and condo units. It is now in the design phase.

http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4776

Developing Stories
Alan G. Brake 08.16.2010

...A new building, likely rentals, is in the works, designed by Brininstool, Kerwin and Lynch (BKL), a firm in which Magellan is an investor. “The condo market is still fractured, but rentals have improved dramatically here,” he said. A condominium building by Arquitectonica is on hold until more financing can be secured. “It will come back,” Loewenberg said of the project.

http://www.rejournals.com/2010/08/18/luxury-still-sells-at-lakeshore-east/

Luxury still sells at Lakeshore East
August 18, 2010 | Mark Thomton

...Carlins says that the next high rise will be similar to Aqua in that it will support rental and condo units. It is now in the design phase.

Can't wait to see a rendering.... :cheers:

http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/6919/49191246808b3ed39b85b.jpg
tanatus78/ flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tanatus/4919124680/in/photostream/)

^^

gorgeous pic! thanks spyguy

Acqua looks majestic :applause:

Excellent picture!:banana:

In that pic Aqua looks taller than AON Center

Aqua hotel venture lands $66-million loan, starts construction

Crain's Chicago Business
11/4/10

"...A development joint venture has begun construction on a 334-room hotel in the Aqua tower near Millennium Park after obtaining a $66-million loan to finance the project. The Radisson Blu, a new upscale brand run by Carlson Hotels Worldwide, will open next September..."

"...Magellan and Minneapolis-based Carlson announced plans in May to team up on the hotel, which will occupy 18 vacant floors in the high-rise and cost about $125 million to build. The development deal and the $66-million construction loan from Hartford, Conn.-based Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers LLC closed Wednesday..."

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20101104/CRED03/101109928/aqua-hotel-venture-lands-66-million-loan-starts-construction

chi649 those photos are amazing! i agree

In that pic Aqua looks taller than AON Center

Thats because Aqua is on a pedestal and the AON Center goes all the way to the ground. This project has really sprung up in the past few years. It's the north anchor of Grant Park as Central Station is the south anchor of Grant Park

The number of hotel rooms planned for the Aqua skyscraper is 215, not 334.

And a tower of similar ight to Aqua should be built to the south of the skyscraper.

http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=176580

December housing starts fall to lowest level for 2010 while permits jump
by Lily Cunge Cai Jan 19, 2011

...Magellan Development Group LLC, a Chicago-based residential developer, has more confidence in the rental market than in the condo market these days.

Magellan plans to break ground on a 50-story residential rental building in the Lakeshore East neighborhood in June due to the high demand for multi-family housing, said Brian Gordon, company vice president.

Great photo spyguy!

Taken on 9/10:
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:master: :hammer: :cheers2: :bow:

Thats because Aqua is on a pedestal and the AON Center goes all the way to the ground. This project has really sprung up in the past few years. It's the north anchor of Grant Park as Central Station is the south anchor of Grant Park

No. It's because Aqua is closer to the viewer than Aon.

This is a pretty cool project.

Aqua looks a lot like a future project we're getting here in Toronto called One Bloor. Btw, great to see further density in Chicago! Beautiful city!

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Village Market updates from EarlyBuyer on SSP:

Village Market Center at Lakeshore East

A new tenant has been announced: Black Coffee Gallery

http://blackcoffeegallery.com.mx/index1.html#Escena_1

Construction progress as of today:

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/4029/dsc0016rm.jpg

So now there is this interesting Mexican cafe, a large grocery store, a steakhouse, a breakfast restaurant, and probably a bank. Not a bad mix so far. Hopefully construction starts soon on the new 50 story rental tower.

Update on Village Market from EarlyBuyer on SSP:

Progress continues with opening anticipated for this summer with 105,000 sq. ft. of retail space

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Secondary (pedestrian) entrance from upper Randolph
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Rendering of the steakhouse:
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6992/3wflgtd7.png

im guessing the location of that steak house will have it on legendary status in 20 years. they will be making a lot of money

Great updates!

Info on the next building, which will be a rental:

http://midwest.construction.com/midwest_construction_projects/2011/0328_DeveloperMagellan-1.asp

Owner of the Year Developer Magellan
By John Gregerson March 28, 2011

...Up next is a 499-unit, all-rental residential tower that could break ground as early as this spring. Although project designer Brininstool, Kerwin and Lynch, Chicago, operates in partnership with Magellan, the developer remains resolute in its recent decision to seek outside design expertise rather than rely solely on affiliate Loewenberg Associates, a Chicago-based architect headed by Magellan’s Jim Loewenberg.

...“We’ve upped the ante,” says Loewenberg. “How do you top it? That’s the question always lurking in the back of our minds.”
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http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20110330/CRED03/110339998/investor-bails-out-developers-on-gold-coast-condo-project

Wow great!! They fit well with the Amoco building!

:applause: fantastic!

Here's the new 50 story rental building that will be next, just north of Aqua and east of the Swissotel.
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/1213/magellan.jpg

I can't wait for the great journalism of skyscraper"news" proclaiming this proof of how much Chicago sucks because it doesn't look like a dented can.

Edit: more renderings and a description from the architects
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This glass tower designed by Brininstool, Kerwin and Lynch in the tradition of Chicago modernism rises 49-stories to overlook Lakeshore East Park, the Chicago River and Lake Michigan. In addition to 499 residential units, the mixed-use tower contains 18,000 square feet of retail space and 18,000 square feet of amenities. With all parking located below Wacker Drive, the tower meets the street gracefully, enhancing the pedestrian experience at street level.

The façade is a composition of light and translucency. On the east and west façades, clear, translucent and fritted glass combine with aluminum to form a curtain wall. Continuous, inset balconies on the north and south elevations provide views of the city skyline and Millennium Park.

People can crap on Chicago as much as they want, but every other large city in the US builds just as many boxes, and even then, most of them can't offer "normal" people relatively affordable apartments and condos with great views.

Just my 2 cents.

FYI... Site prep has begun for the latest building, Building A.

...

New information about "Building A" at Lakeshore East:

Occupancy: February, 2013
Height: 425 feet, measured from East Upper Wacker Drive.
Construction start: June
Rentals only
Studios, convertibles, 1-, 2-, and 3-bedroom apartments.
Three-bedroom apartments are new, and there will be one in the northwest corner of each of the top five floors.
18,000 square foot retail space on East Upper Wacker Drive.
Five levels of parking below Wacker Drive level.
Pool and common outdoor area on the podium. From the drawings, the pool looks to be just a cheap splash pool like at The Shoreham, not a real pool.
The east and west walls of the building are entirely clear glass. The balconies on the north and south faces of the building are recessed from the edge of the perpendicular glass walls, and faced with glass railings.
Two dog runs
Green roof.
Slightly shorter than The Tides.
45 stories above Wacker Drive, 50 stories from ground level, which includes the public parking garage.

Source: http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info/2011/05/13/more-info-about-lakeshore-easts-newest-skyscraper/

So the next tower (images posted above) will start construction very soon. I plan to update the entire first page later on today.

http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.com/article/20110526/CRED03/110529894/magellan-lands-construction-loan-for-lakeshore-east-apartments

Magellan lands construction loan for Lakeshore East apartments
By: Alby Gallun May 26, 2011

The developer of the Lakeshore East project landed a construction loan for a 499-unit apartment building on the Chicago River, with plans to break ground early next month.

A joint venture led by Magellan Development Group LLC is borrowing $99.5 million from Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. to finance the 45-story building just east of the Swissotel, says Magellan President David Carlins. Chicago-based Magellan and its equity partner, JP Morgan Asset Management, also are investing about $50 million in equity in the high-rise designed by Brininstool Kerwin & Lynch.

Edit: I finally got around to updating the front page (thanks hydro for helping!).

How tall is this one going to be? Probably lower than 200 meter? :)

http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9479/buildinga20.jpg
Ugly boxy face !

Its just a bit taller then Swissotel I think?

425feet = +/- 130m. but that is measured from street level on the river side.
If you measure from insdie the 'park' it will gain something around 20/30m so around 500feet max i guess...? :)

The newest building is now under construction:

Today
Site prep on lake shore east tower

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How pissed must all the people in the surrounding buildings be that they are losing their views. I love the city!

Village Market Center (10/11/11) (taken by me)

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u291/kdickert/VMCLSE2.jpg

Crane for the Coast
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6101/6232914176_ed700c3a90_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/changoblanco3/6232914176/)
360 E Randolph (16) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/changoblanco3/6232914176/) by Sky Ninja (http://www.flickr.com/people/changoblanco3/), on Flickr

Taken today:

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u291/kdickert/Coast5.jpg

http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u291/kdickert/Coast2.jpg

Great quality!

Cool project!

From today's Chicago Architecture Blog: New Plan for Four Unbuilt Loop Skyscrapers (http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info/2012/03/01/new-plans-for-four-unbuilt-loop-skyscrapers/)

The Park District may use the unbuilt portions of Lakeshore East for tennis courts.