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Phase one: Acquire somewhere between $480,000 and $2.78 million. Phase two: Develop desire to live right around the corner from the AMC River East 21. Phase three: Patience until 2010.
Maybe you've accomplished these goals already, and if you have, this is your lucky day: Developers revealed plans for a new downtown high rise today that meets your criteria exactly. The Peshtigo (we can't stop saying it ...), which would be located at 515 N. Peshtigo Court, will be a 57-story, 358-unit condo.
Architect Ralph Johnson, defying what we thought was a profession-wide law by wearing totally normal glasses, also designed Skybridge, 123 N. Wacker, and is working on an office building for Block 37. Peshtiiiiigo.
Rendering via Crain's.
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Ah, The Peshtigo.
Named after that small city in East Central Wisconsin, where the worst fire recorded in North American history took place on October 8, 1871--the same day as the Chicago Fire.
But only Wisconsinites who took 4th grade history probably know that.
That's a sweet name! If I look thoroughly through the couches I'm sure I can find an easy million.
That is some terrible architecture. Not beige box ugly, but ugly enough.
Why would you name a building after the most deadly fire in American history?
SAMiller... they named a soccer team after a fire that destroyed an entire city. next we'll probably have the 9/11 satdium or something similarly crude.
Margaret... funny little piece of writing you have here.
that's why that sounds familiar...
Ah, just what Streeterville needs--another high rise condo. They're working on 4 of them now in a two block area--my car has a permanent layer of dust on it.
Peshtigo is the name of the street, SAMiller. I doubt the developers thought about the fire.
BTW, this native Chicagoan has known all about the Peshtigo fire for years. I was just in the town last month with the hubby (not from these parts)and visited the museum and mass grave.
the overall designs not bad. the base is atrocious.
Like this?
I agree with the observation by guest #8 about the base. Thanks to parking podiums, many of these buildings have 5-story barren walls around the base. It ruins the pedestrian experience.
But yet people keep complaining about lack of parking and congestion.