Tagged : West Loop Development

A beautiful new hotel project is being discussed for the West Loop and will be up for approval by the Plan Commission later this year. 

If approved, the new West Loop Hyatt Hotel will be built over at 113 N. May Street and is expected to house trainees of McDonald’s “Hamburger University” training program, which of course will also be moved to the city once the new McDonald’s headquarters is finished right down the street. 

The design of the new West Loop Hyatt Hotel has been slightly modified from the original proposal, which included a 19-story building with 220 rooms. The new revised design from Eckenhoff Saunders Architects now only stands 16 stories high with 200 rooms. 

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Construction appears to finally be moving forward on 808 W. Van Buren—the latest mixed-use development to hit Chicago’s rapidly changing West Loop neighborhood.  

Being developed by Loukas Development and designed by bKL Architecture, the 12-story project initially secured a construction permit for the building’s foundation back in April, but not much has been active at the site since. 

According to reports from Curbed Chicago, 808 W. Van Buren will include 148 apartment residences, ground floor retail space, and parking for 65 vehicles once finished, although a completion date hasn’t quite been announced as of yet.  

Previous to development, the building site at the corner of Halsted and Van Buren was once the home of Costa’s restaurant, which