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Completion 19: Millennium Centre
Cost: $118 million
The 60-story Millennium Centre condominium
in Chicago's River North neighborhood grew in the land of
giants.
The building was constructed between two other major high-rise
residential projects, the 56- and 37-story Grand Plaza apartment
towers - and fellow Top Project - to the south and the 29-story
Caravel condominium to the north.
That bigness could have created some huge snarls.
Because the timetable for each project overlapped, the potential
for traffic tie-ups due to lane closures in the entertainment
district worried city officials.
The project's southern face overlooks Ohio Street, a one-way
feeder to Navy Pier, and the northern face fronts Ontario
Street, a one-way feeder to the Kennedy Expressway.
Permits were amended to help maintain a sufficient number
of open lanes.
The original permit had allowed Ontario's south sidewalk to
be barricaded and a protective pedestrian walkway to be erected
in a closed street lane, but the city rescinded the closure
and canopy.
Yet some original permitting, such as that on Ohio Street
on the south, was kept to ensure work moved forward.
About 40 to 50 deliveries of concrete were received each day,
many of those taken to a pump and slick line on Ohio. Keeping
the north sidewalk barricaded and a protected pedestrian walkway
in a closed street lane proved helpful.
Condos, Townhouses, Penthouses
The 910,000-sq.-ft. building houses 354 condominiums, six
townhouses and four penthouses. The residences are on floors
14 through 58, and a mechanical penthouse is at the top.
Millennium Centre will contain 696 parking spaces on nine
levels of the 10-floor base.
About 28,000 sq. ft. of space in the building's lower part
contains retail.
The L-shaped structure comprises the base holding the parking
and retail, and the slender tower containing the condominiums.
The four-story townhouses will sit atop the base.
Millennium Centre will feature an outdoor pool, sundeck, exercise
facilities and conference room.
Cast-in-place concrete is the main structural support. Granite
cladding dresses the bottom two floors, and vertical ribbing
runs the building height.
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Key
Players
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Developer:
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American Invsco, Chicago
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Construction Manager:
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AMEC Construction Management, Chicago
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Architect:
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Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates Inc., Chicago
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Structural Engineer:
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Chris P. Stefanos Associates Inc., Oak Lawn, Ill.
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Mechanical/Electrical Engineer of Record:
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WMA Consulting Engineers Ltd., Chicago
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Fire Protection:
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U.S. Fire Protection, Lake Forest, Ill.
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Electric:
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Gurtz Electric Co., Arlington Heights, Ill.
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HVAC:
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Hill Mechanical Group, Chicago
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Plumbing/Housepumps:
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Thomas H. Litvin Corp., Chicago
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Concrete:
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Adjustable Forms Inc., Lombard, Ill.
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