If you happen to watched Star Trek after Svengoolie on channel 26 Saturday evening, you discovered that jealousy is a horrible factor. However jealousy can also be what makes the true property world go ’spherical. Your cousin will get a two-flat in Ravenswood, you get a four-flat in Lincoln Park. Your neighbor places a trampoline in his yard, you place in a pool. The dot-com wannabe throughout city will get its personal meals truck, your dot-com wannabe places in a meals courtroom meals corridor.
The newest entry into the workplace facilities arms race is taking form at 601W Companies‘ Old Chicago Main Post Office within the West Loop. The YoChicago! YoCopter was hovering over it just lately, and took the {photograph} you see above.
A lot of the roof is mechanical doodads and vegetation, as a result of that’s how Metropolis Corridor likes it. However you can even see the massive blue basketball courtroom within the sky, a jogging monitor across the heart of the roof, some good illuminated strolling paths for the less-energetic, and two pavilions.
Although it’s cool to have a basketball courtroom on the roof of an artwork deco workplace constructing, it’s not the best basketball courtroom on the town. In line with a 1996 article within the Chicago Tribune, that honor belongs to the 69th ground of 311 South Wacker, the place upkeep crews blow off steam. We haven’t been into the mechanical areas of 311, however when you’ve got, tell us if it’s nonetheless there.
Some renderings of the renovated Publish Workplace roof included a water function, however that seems to have evaporated. In fact, the largest change is the absence of the 1,300-foot-tall residential tower that was posited by the earlier proprietor again in 2013. These plans, charmingly, check with this because the “Olde Chicago Publish Workplace Growth,” as if this was an Arthur Treacher’s Fish and Chips store circa 1978.
Location: 433 West Van Buren Road, West Loop
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