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Trump Visits Site of 90-Story Tower
The demolition recently started on the Chicago Sun-Times
building at 401 N. Wabash St. along the Chicago River to make
room for Trump International Hotel and Tower.
Flamboyant New York developer Donald Trump was in town for
the ceremony. His 90-story will be the fourth tallest building
in Chicago at 1,125 ft.
Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the architect,
and the Chicago office of New York-based Bovis Lend Lease
is serving as the general contractor.
Tribune Foundation Unveils Museum Plans
The Chicago-based McCormick Tribune Foundation has announced
plans to build a public museum dedicated to America's freedoms,
with special emphasis on First Amendment rights.
The not-yet-named facility will feature 10,000 sq. ft. of
exhibition space and will be located in the Tribune Tower
on Michigan Avenue.
The project is expected to start in April, and the museum
is project to open the same month in 2006.
The McCormick Museum Foundation was created to design, build
and operate the museum. Chicago-based VOA Associates will
apply programming, master planning, architecture and interior
design services.
Preservation Projects Get Recognition
Nine awards recognizing outstanding preservation efforts
throughout the state were recently presented as part of the
Landmark Preservation Council of Illinois's annual Richard
H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards program.
The winners were honored at a gala dinner held in the reconstructed
Stock Exchange Trading Room at the Art Institute of Chicago.
The projects and individuals honored were:
Central Park Band Shell, Orion: Two years of determined
fundraising and painstaking rehabilitation work helped save
this 90-year-old community music pavilion in northwest Illinois.
Dempster Street Station, Skokie: This Prairie-style
building operated for nearly 70 years as a train station along
the Skokie Swift elevated train line before closing in 1994.
Nine years after appearing on LPCI's Ten Most Endangered Historic
Places in Illinois list, the station has been saved from demolition
and restored for retail use.
Emmett's Tavern & Brewing Company, West Dundee:
This conversion of an 1871 bank building into a local brewery
and fine dining restaurant has helped spur redevelopment of
this Fox River town's historic commercial district.
Hard Rock Hotel, Chicago: The 40-story Carbide and
Carbon Building, which was constructed as an office building
in 1929 was converted into a 381-room hotel with the assistance
of federal and local tax incentives for historic preservation.
Leslie Kenyon, Peoria: This longtime preservation architect
was honored for his career accomplishments, including 75 restoration
projects and his work as an advocate in the Peoria preservation
community.
Menard County Board, Petersburg: The county board,
with encouragement by the local sheriff, chose to restore
its historic 1886 courthouse building, despite the laborious
efforts required to uncover original sandstone masonry hidden
beneath layers of stucco.
Martin Mitchell Mansion & Carriage House, Naperville:
A meticulous restoration of both the exterior and interior
details of a 120-year-old Victorian mansion and outbuilding
located in the historic Naper Settlement has returned two
of the site's properties to their original appearance.
Alfred Mueller, Galena: A lifetime resident of Galena,
Mueller took an interest in documenting the history of the
community by collecting more than 10,000 images in his personal
archives, all of which he made available for public use. Mueller
died at age 95, the week before the awards ceremony.
Wheeler Mansion, Chicago: A formerly vacant, pre-Chicago
Fire mansion located near the McCormick Place Convention Center
has been carefully restored and converted into a European
style boutique hotel with the assistance of a local property
tax incentive program.
Collegians Unite for Senior Housing Design
A plot of land near 39th Street and Michigan Avenue in
Chicago could be the future site of a senior citizen housing
complex that uses the ideas proposed by students at DePaul
University, Illinois Institute of Technology and Ohio's
Kent State University.
The multi-college real estate course at DePaul challenges
business students from DePaul, architecture students from
IIT and graphic design students from Kent State to combine
their ingenuity in teams that will create competing senior
housing facility development proposals tailored to the site.
The land will be developed by a partnership formed by Davis
Group LLC, Kimball Hill Homes, Walsh Construction Co. and
Mesa Development LCC.
The leaders of these four firms - Allison Davis, David Hill,
Daniel Walsh and Richard Hanson - are founding sponsors
of DePaul's Real Estate Center.
Their partnership plans to build a senior housing development
on a parcel near a mixed-use housing redevelopment that
they will construct on the site of the former Chicago Housing
Authority Stateway Gardens housing complex. The developers
will review the winning student team proposal and if the
team's ideas are viable, they may incorporate them into
the real proposal for the senior citizen building site.
The teams will meet in January to present their senior citizen
housing models and marketing and financial proposals in
a juried competition. Their final presentations will contain
all the components of professional real estate proposals
and presentations, including pro forma statements, design
drawings, brochures and Web pages.
Jefferson Tower Starts Work
Ground was broke for the $42 million Jefferson Tower, a
24-story condominium in the Fulton River District of Chicago.
The condominium features 198 units between $216,000 and
$376,000, and the building is one-third sold.
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