The City Council of Chicago has signed with a 15 million $ 15 million plan to redevelop 55 hectares around the United Center of Chicago with housing, retail sale, entertainment space and a public square.
The development of mixed use on the west side of the city has been dubbed the 1901 project, in reference to the postal address of the site. It will have 9,463 new houses, with 20% reserved for affordable homes, commercial offices, a hotel, retail sale and entertainment buildings, including a 6,000 -seater music room, anchored by public space. The space that is being redeveloped in the center of United is now mainly surface car parks, which will be replaced by underground and garage car park as part of redevelopment.
The project is led by Realesdorf and Wirtz families, National Basketball Association Chicago Bulls owners and National Hockey League’s Blackhawks Chicago, and it is expected to begin this summer. The Wirtz family also controls Breakthru Beverages Group, the largest beer, wine and lyrics distributor in Illinois.
Colleen Quinn, a spokesman for the United Center, will announce a general contractor, while Colleen Quinn, a spokesman for the United Center, has been confirmed, while a board of other developers and members of the team of the team of the team of the team has been confirmed. building. These include Rios as a Master Planner, an urban designer, experience room designer and music room architect, MKA as a structural engineer, Thornton Tomasetti as a waterproof facade and engineer, HBK as a civil engineer, Forza as a codes consultant, Field operations as a landscape designer, Sam Schwartz as an engineer transport, dismantled as a parking consultant and environmental analysis of Rwdi.
The music room, which will be part of the first phase of construction, will have a park on the roof connected to 5.3 hectares of green space and perimeter commercial space. Other elements include a mixed building that will include local commercial spaces, a emission, offices and parking center, a roof park that will include sports courts and recreational areas, a boutique hotel tower that will have 233 hotel rooms , a roof on the rooftop restaurant, gym and park and a public square that will connect the center joined to West Adams Street.
Planters also want to see a Pink line of Chicago Transit Authority added to development, but requires approval of the city.
“The 1901 project believes that the west side of Chicago will benefit from an additional pink line that offers a greater connection and opportunity with the neighborhood and its residents and, therefore, support the efforts,” says Quinn. “The decision and the following steps, however, are ultimately in the city and their departments.”
Michael Reinsdorf, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Bulls, called the project to finish the West Side, which is financially struggling with Chicago “a historical moment” and a “daring commitment unprecedented with the future of our community”.
On the Rios website, Richard Peterson, director of Senior Projects and Architect, said that “our goal with the Master Plan of the 1901 project is to provide an urban canvas, rich in public spaces and a diverse program, for the legacy of the legacy Existing neighborhood to write your own chapter. ”
The redevelopment of neighborhoods around entertainment in Chicago has become popular with developers, as the 1060 project renewed the Wrigley Field project and redeveloped the whole neighborhood around it with a financial support from the Ricketts family, Owners of the Chicago Cubs. The Sal Shed Live Music Concest, an old Morton jump facility in West Side, also contributed a new development with its completion.
