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There's also two more giant hotels planned with the convention center expansion. Likely further down the road, no details yet.
Two more residential highrises are moving ahead in the historic core today as well. The historic core has never had new highrises. at least two other ones are u/c, with 3-5 others right behind it.
Downtown Seattle is up to 17 projects around 400' or more in this boom counting active construction with tower cranes. Several more could start this year. About 28 more actively in planning including the potential imminent ones.
Yes! I was super pissed (and still am) over the Braves leaving the city proper, but it is turning out to be the best thing to happen to that neighborhood in 50 years.
The highway already has a viaduct over Georgia Avenue and Fulton Street itself is a viaduct over 75/85, so all that is needed are pedestrian improvements to widen the sidewalks as well as make it more visually appealing and adding streetcar service. Thankfully both are part of the plan.
It would be nice if they made a pedestrian only bridge and made it some sort bridge park type of sorts, almost like the highline in NYC but ATLIFIED.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority has just announced their selection for the developer of a new building at the site of the Winthrop Square garage in downtown Boston. It is not my favorite design but according to the article in the Boston Globe it is supposed to reach 750 feet to the top which would make it one foot taller than the prudential tower and the third tallest building in the city.
City officials have picked Millennium Partners to develop the prized site of the Winthrop Square Garage.
The Boston Redevelopment Authority said Wednesday that it will start negotiations with Millennium — a New York-based developer that just completed the Millennium Tower luxury condo building— to build Boston’s third-tallest building on the site of a squat city-owned garage on Devonshire Street.
Officially 48 highrises under construction in Chicago now along with dozens of mid-rises peppering the area, I think that might be an all-time high for one period. Tons of mid and low rise stuff going up on the north and near west sides, especially with the mid-rises going up along Milwaukee Ave. Seems to be a new one announced every day.
5 Tallest at the moment:
Wanda Vista: 1,186 feet
451 E Grand: 850 feet
150 N Riverside: 752 feet
River Point: 730 feet
130 N Frankon: 730 feet
A few other more notable, thought not tall, projects:
* 6-acre Children's Hospital redevelopment on the north side is in full swing. Tear-down and renovation of the complex to create 756 housing units and 162,000 sf of retail space.
* Multiple developments of $700,000,000 around Wrigley Field to add 148 apartments, 150,000 sf of retail, 175 room hotel, large Wrigley/neighborhood plaza, six story office and retail building along with full historical renovation of the stadium itself with around 100,000 square feet of underground additions.
* Huge development on vacant land immediately south of downtown along the river, the first highrise is under construction now with a full 3,500 units on tap, a riverwalk extention through the area along with retail and entertainment.
* After decades of delay a developer has finally signed on and plans are being drawn for the largest and most obvious open site in the entire central Chicago area. The 62 acre former railroad yards directly south of Roosevelt Road. Plans will take around 15 years, and include 6,000 new residences along with hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail and office as well. The Red Line Subway and Metra run through the area, and planned stations would be incorporated into each.
* The West Loop probably has the most activity at the moment within one neighborhood, currently dealing with 30 active construction sites or near-starting projects:
8 projects to add a combined 1,418,000 of office space
5 projects to add a combined 838 hotel rooms
2 projects to add a combined 130,000 sf of retail space
16 projects to add a combined 3,047 residential units
* The Old Post Office finally has a solid development plan moving forward after decades sitting empty. The project is to start this year and involved a multi-use facility with a $500,000,000 pricetag for the massive overhaul. The Post Office was the largest in the world when it opened, and currently has an 8-lane expressway running through the center of the building.
* In addition to the multi-billion dollar expansion of runways at O'Hare that's been ongoing, multiple other projects are underway or to begin this year, adding another few billion in construction to the area. 14 new gates are currently in preparation, with the expected complete reconstruction of Terminal 2 in the coming years to add dozens more. Three new hotel projects worth $350,000,000 are getting underway on airport grounds. A massive 4,500,000 sf 33 acre intermodal and rental care facility is currently under construction to pull all rental car activity at the airport under one large roof directly tied to the airport through the current elevated tram system. A $200,000,000 project to develop an 820,000sf facility to handle modern cargo transport is under construction. The facility will have new technology and be able to efficiently handle 15 large cargo jets and around a dozen smaller ones at one central location. A new de-icing facility is also under construction to quickly move large amounts of planes. As it is the de-icing comes from plane to plane at the gate and it creates gate gridlock.
There are other large projects like the Finkel Steel site on the north side, the largest tract of land open for development there in over 100 years, and the much larger South Steel site on the south side along Lake Michigan. I don't like to spend so much time on visionary things though. Proposed projects are flashy and exciting - but I stick to talking more about what's actually approved, under construction, has financing lined up or is moving with strong momentum.
Wouldn't that make it the 2nd tallest in the city?
No.
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Originally Posted by iAMtheVVALRUS
I know the Hancock would be taller, but what would the other of the two taller buildings be?
The currently under-construction Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences; at 61 stories and 230 meters (755 feet) in height will be the city of Boston's second tallest tower after the Hancock Tower. It will be 1.65 meters (5 feet) taller than the tower that poster was referring to.
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