Chicago’s noisiest street corner is going to get considerably noisier. Chicago Architecture Blog reporter Bill Motchan has confirmed that developer Dan Moceri and architect Thomas Roszak are busy working on a new skyscraper for the southwest corner of Lake and Wells Streets in the Loop.
The 33-story apartment tower is using the address 215 West Lake Street, and is the latest in a growing list of new skyscrapers planned, under construction, or recently completed in the northwest quadrant of The Loop. When finished it will have 265 residences.
Mr. Moceri and Mr. Roszak recently teamed up to build the JeffJack Apartments at 601 West Jackson Boulevard in the West Loop.
Construction of a skyscraper at 215 West Lake Street would mean the demolition of several existing low-rise commercial buildings.
One is a basic old-school parking garage. Two others are fairly generic retail blocks. But also on the chopping block is Monk’s Pub.
Monk’s Pub at 205 West Lake Street
Monk’s is one of a dwindling number of old school downtown Chicago taverns that have survived the decades by flying under the radar. Although it does have a fake Tudor facade and an arched and gated entry worthy of a Benedictine monastery, it is the sort of place you go to because someone told you it’s there, not because you stumbled across it one day.
While some debate whether Monk’s was the location of Chicago’s first synagogue, it is widely accepted that the city’s first Jewish religious service was indeed held upstairs. A landmark designation is deserved, but never sought nor awarded.
The planned 33-story 215 West Lake Street is the third new skyscraper within two blocks. It will share a city block with the 36-story 151 North Franklin, which itself is across the street from the 51-story 130 North Franklin.
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from The Chicago Architecture Blog http://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2015/07/29/another-loop-residential-tower-coming-soon-jewish-landmark-in-peril/
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