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Amazon team expected in Chicago Wednesday March 21 and Thursday March 22. Three sites will be visited with option of more. Shrouded in secrecy to details.
These sites include;
- the rapidly changing "Fulton Market District",
- Sterling Bay’s "Lincoln Yards" development slated the former North Branch Industrial Corridor,
- and Related Midwest’s sprawling South Loop parcel known as "The 78".
Tours of other sites are also possible.
To those who claim Chicago and Illinois politics are killers.....
RENDERINGS of CHICAGO'S --- Under-Construction Super-Talls and just under.
Some Approved for construction to start and proposed here ...
- 1,186' "Vista Tower" - Under-Construction
- 1,011 "One Chicago Square" -Proposed and Approved to construct.
- 893' "One Grant Park" just shy of super-tall. The shorter of two - Under Construction.
- 836' "One Bennett Park" recently topped off construction.
- 832' Tower Approved to build. Overlooking Grant Park S Michigan Ave.
- 875' Lakeshore East sight -1 - Proposed.
- 950' Wolf Point South - 3rd and tallest -Proposed. One shorter completed and 2nd - 660' Under-Construction.
- 800' 110 N Wacker Dr. -Sight Prep Underway and will be Bank of America New Home.
- 680' 725 W Randolph- Proposed
- 1388" Tribune Tower addition - Proposed
So not so sure City vs State Politics or Pension debt is stopping much.....
Now as long as the National Economy stays good and city continues to absorb all the new apartment buildings and condos. These are merely the tallest not all by far.
Tall buildings will likely not persuade amazon but thanks for the Chicago update. It is worth noting that amazons new towers in Seattle are all under 550 feet, pretty low-rise in the Seattle orbit.
The three they've developed themselves are all around 520' give or take. Each has every square inch they can fit onto those blocks per Seattle's floor area ratio and height limits...those limits might be a key factor in why they need to expand elsewhere. (A fourth tower of similar height is leased space; a fifth tower of much taller height that just broke ground is also leased space.)
The three they've developed themselves are all around 520' give or take. Each has every square inch they can fit onto those blocks per Seattle's floor area ratio and height limits...those limits might be a key factor in why they need to expand elsewhere. (A fourth tower of similar height is leased space; a fifth tower of much taller height that just broke ground is also leased space.)
I assume the fifth tower you are referring to is Rainier Square, which I believe will be mostly leased by Amazon. This tower is tall, will become the 2nd tallest in Seattle after Columbia Center, at 849 feet.
Tall buildings will likely not persuade amazon but thanks for the Chicago update. It is worth noting that amazons new towers in Seattle are all under 550 feet, pretty low-rise in the Seattle orbit.
Agree, but the context behind Dave's reference to the construction projects was that Chicago and Illinois politics are not having a major impact on local building and development projects.
Sorry, I don't buy this for a second. As mentioned a million times before, Chicago is the number one relocation and expansion city in the U.S. for 5 Years in a row, twice as much as no. 2 Houston. Five years in a row. Why would companies such as Caterpillar, Conagra, McDonalds, etc. relocate to Chicago or expand here if it were such a bad business climate? On top of everything else, Illinois is giving them 2 billion dollars to relocate there. Bad business climate for Amazon? Hardly. Every time I hear a CD poster mention this, I can't help but think that they are not paying attention to facts, but only their own agendas.
Incomes are now rising faster in many suburban Chicago towns than the nation as a whole, according to the new Bloomberg wealthiest places list. Now 12 suburbs of Chicago are in the top 100 wealthiest, and west suburban Chicago added three new towns to the list, joining Oak Brook and Hinsdale ( no. 30 ) and having incomes in those towns rise between 4% and 15% since last year, faster than most towns on the coasts. No other area matched that this past year.
The issues that "remain" don't seem to interfere with the fact that Chicago has more cranes for skyscrapers than any town outside of Seattle, and companies are coming to Chicago, not leaving. Not the right fit for Amazon? Let them decide, and you can tell your sources that as well.
This is a very glass half full outlook (but I agree with much of it). One thing you might add to this bravado (and perhaps one of the key material differentiators) is that Chicago is slowly growing a highly educated workforce. According to Crain's, Chicago is now the nation's most-highly educated city. Of course, this comes somewhat at the expense of depopulation.
Another plus that is not overlooked, but perhaps not emphasized enough, is that Univ. of Chicago and Northwestern are top 4 U.S. business schools and Univ. of Michigan (a feeder to Chicago) is top 10. Amazon is looking for top notch business, accounting, actuarial, etc. leaders, in addition to experts in the field computer engineering and computer sciences. Chicago, NW, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin have them in spades and many, most of them would be happy to stay in or re-locate to Chicago.
We are coming down to crunch time, and just for the record, here are my top candidates, based on stuff that few believe, so I refuse to back them up with further arguments.
We are coming down to crunch time, and just for the record, here are my top candidates, based on stuff that few believe, so I refuse to back them up with further arguments.
We are coming down to crunch time, and just for the record, here are my top candidates, based on stuff that few believe, so I refuse to back them up with further arguments.
I have been active on both threads directed toward this subject for the past year+.
I expect an announcement of either a winner, or a top10 list soon.
Nice, Thank you. I will agree as well.
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Tribune Tower addition - Proposed
