Would you like a 35-story luxurious skyscraper in your neighborhood? As a result of that is the way you get a 35-story luxurious skyscraper in your neighborhood.
The Chicago Plan Fee has given its blessing to the development of a brand new residential tower at 40 West Oak Street. The brand new constructing was designed by Lucien Lagrange for Nahla Capital, and can substitute the Warren Barr Pavilion’s parking storage.
The constructing’s 75 new condominiums and 160 new parking areas will substitute the prevailing Warren Barr automobile park (learn that in your finest Boston accent).
Although it’s instantly behind the Newberry Library, the brand new skyscraper gained’t be the awkward six-foot-tall redhead on the eighth-grade dance. There are towers of 20, 21, 22, 32, and 37 tales on adjoining blocks. It’s additionally been reduce a bit from its initially deliberate peak of 502 ft, right down to 465 ft and alter.
Count on a number of ornamental metalwork, limestone, and granite. If you happen to dig the Park Tower on Michigan Avenue, you’ll be hip to this jive. Which is natch as a result of it’s the identical cat behind the mouse.
Location: 40 West Oak Avenue, Close to North
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