Construction On Jeanne Gang-Designed Vista Tower Should Start This Week

By Mae Rice in News on Jul 26, 2016 8:50PM

We have an official start date—or at least, start week—for Vista Tower, Chicago's third-tallest-building-to-be. Construction will start on the Jeanne Gang-designed skyscraper this month, according to a release from contractor McHugh Construction. That means the team should break ground on the project sometime this week.

It's going to be a few years before the project is complete, according to current projections: the building structure is slated to be finished in Jan. 2019, and the interiors of the wildly luxurious units should be done by April 2020, according to McHugh's release. That means you can look forward to years of construction noise that routinely runs from 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and reroutes on Upper Wacker Drive through summer of 2019.

Still, when it's all over, it'll hopefully be worth it. The finished tower will be 98 stories tall, with 93 of those stories above grade, according to McHugh's release. It'll encompass a 192-room hotel, as well as 406 luxury condos. Kabillionaires are so excited about said condos that they started buying them long ago, when they were purely theoretical—as of June, they had bought $200M of glam condos in Vista, and they're still selling like very, very expensive hotcakes.

[H/T Curbed]