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MILA at 200 N. Michigan Making Progress Towards Early-2016 Completion

Posted by Leo Clark. on June 25th, 2015

The new 41-story apartment tower coming to 200 N. Michigan Avenue is well underway at this point, exciting those keeping an eye on its progress and just waiting for its delivery early next year. Now being called “MILA” (an abbreviation for Michigan and Lake), 200 N. Michigan Avenue is literally just steps from Chicago’s primary theatre district, the Chicago River, Millennium Park, the Magnificent Mile and also the city’s major business and financial district, making it a great walk-to-work location as well.

Designed by bKL Architecture, MILA of course has a pretty sleek look and feel from the outside, not to mention developers are also aiming for a LEED Silver certification for the building once construction wraps up for the project. When finished, 402…

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Construction Underway For 34-Story High-Rise at 833 N. Clark

Posted by Leo Clark. on June 2nd, 2015

As first reported by our friends at ChicagoArchitecture.org, the new 34-story high-rise at 833 N. Clark is now officially underway, marking the beginning of two residential high-rises that are set to begin construction sometime during the month of June.

Obligated to incorporate the historic Georgian Revival style bank building that sits on the site as part of an agreement made with the city to revive this landmark-status structure, 833 North Clark is a pretty unique project that, when finished, will have eliminated yet another surface parking lot in the city, providing even more residential retail and residential space in one of the hottest neighborhoods in the entire city.

In all, the new 833 N. Clark development will stand 380 feet high, house 392…

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Plans For Chicago's Largest Office Tower Since the Recession Released

Posted by Leo Clark. on April 24th, 2015

Big news was announced this week on the front of Chicago’s commercial side of the real estate industry, as the sleek new design for an office tower at 130 North Franklin was finally released at a public meeting held by the project’s developer. Tishman Speyer, who already owns 13.5 million square feet of office space in downtown Chicago, is planning to add nearly 1.4 million more square feet of leasable space to their portfolio in the form of a very impressive 53-story glass tower that, if approved, will be the largest office building to begin construction since the post-recession development boom began, which is still well underway.

The new building is being designed by Krueck+Sexton Architects, and just going off the new renderings that were released…

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