350 North Orleans
350 North Orleans | |
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The Blackstone Group | |
Technical details | |
Floor count | 24 |
Floor area | 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2)[1] |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Skidmore, Owings & Merrill |
350 North Orleans (formerly known as River North Point) is the official name of the 24-floor multipurpose building located in the River North community area of Chicago, at the intersection of the North Branch and the Main Branch of the
The property was formerly owned by
Background
The building is associated with the neighboring Merchandise Mart to its east, which it is connected to by way of an enclosed pedestrian walkway and the two buildings are sometimes jointly referred to as the Merchandise Mart and Apparel Center or Merchandise Mart and Apparel Center Annex. The building is one of four distinct properties that are known as Chicago's Mart Center complex, also known as World Trade Center Chicago: The Merchandise Mart, the Chicago Apparel Center, the Merchandise Mart ExpoCenter and Wolf Point.[7] In James Thompson's original 58-block 1830 plat of Chicago, the property upon which the building is situated is represented by what was then designated as "Block 7" and a large portion of "Block 6", both of which are located at the fork of the Chicago River.[8]
When the building was constructed, it was the world's largest wholesale buying center, featuring over 1,000 display
The Kennedy-Vornado transaction occurred during an urban commercial real estate recovery that also saw the
The Kennedys retained their interest in Wolf Point, the 4 acres (16,000 m2) of land between Apparel Center and the Chicago River to the south of the building with an address of 340 North Orleans.
In May 2015
Tenants
In 2012 the last of the apparel showroom Tenants vacated and the building was converted to 100% commercial office. The existing Tenant base is primarily marketing firms and commodity trading firms. The largest tenants include Brookfield Properties (formerly GGP), WPP plc (Ogilvy (agency) and Ronin Capital.[citation needed]
Tenant list:
- Great Wolf Lodge (corporate headquarters)[27] - The facility, the "Great Wolf Den," began operations in 2017.[28] Rahm Emanuel, Mayor of Chicago, attended the facility's opening.[29]
Former tenants:
- Chicago Sun-Times[29] - It occupied the facility for a 13 year period: 2004 to 2017.[30]
Window Installation
The building was constructed with no windows above the 3rd floor and below the 13th floor (the Hotel was constructed with windows for obvious reasons). In the mid-1990s as commercial office Tenants began to occupy the building, the building owners began replacing the original concrete pre-cast panels with windows. The current owner has had windows installed on 3 full floors and replaced partial height windows with full height windows on many of the floors that had already had windows installed. As of February 2018, there are only two elevations on the 8th floor of the north tower that are in need of window installation.
Tenant Amenity Spaces
In 2018, the entire facade (from the 3rd floor upwards) was refinished and the original brown aggregate was painted, significantly improving its image. In addition, the building owner redeveloped the existing conference facility and created a Tenant Lounge known as River Room which contains a Tenant exclusive conference facility and approximately 9,000 square feet of high end lounge space for Tenants to meet outside of the office in a more casual setting. River Room has expansive views of the Chicago River and an adjacent bar / eatery is currently under construction.
In May 2018 a high end fitness facility known as Studio350 was constructed in 10,000 square feet of vacant space on the 1st floor. The facility is exclusive to 350 North Orleans tenants and offers a full range of classes (yoga, spinning, strength training) and is operated by LifeStart on behalf of the building owner.
In May 2019 a roof deck opened, also exclusively for building tenants.
See also
Notes
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ "The Chicago Apparel Center". Glass Steel and Stone. Archived from the original on January 15, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ^ a b "History of the Mart". merchandisemart.com. Archived from the original on June 2, 2007. Retrieved July 10, 2007.
- Emporis.com. Retrieved July 13, 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Kennedy Family Selling Merchandise Mart To Vornado Realty". Chicago Tribune. January 26, 1998. p. 3.
- ^ Yates, Ronald E. (October 1, 1993). "To The Mart ... Er, World Trade Center". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Thompson's Plat of 1830". Encyclopedia of Chicago. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- Newspapers.com.
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- Palm Beach Post. January 23, 1977. Archived from the originalon July 11, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
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- Toledo Blade.
- ^ Sharoff, Robert (March 29, 1998). "Trophy Properties Top the Recovery in Chicago". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- ^ Giovannini, Joseph (June 16, 1998). "New Pieces, New Looks For the Office". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2010.
- Newspapers.com.
- Newspapers.com.
- ^ Crain Communications, Inc.Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ^ Davis, Jerry C. (September 3, 1989). "Wolf Point, part of Mart face redevelopment". Chicago Sun-Times.
- Emporis.com. Retrieved July 14, 2010.[dead link]
- Chicago Historical Society. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ^ "Wolf Point, Chicago 1822–1835". Wolf Point Strategies. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
- ^ Ori, Ryan (May 27, 2015). "Willis Tower buyer pounces on former Apparel Center". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved November 20, 2015.
- ^ "Home". Great Wolf Resorts. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
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- NBC Chicago. April 26, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2023.
- ^ NBC Chicago"Great Wolf Resorts Opens New Chicago Headquarters" is talking about the same building.)
- ^ Roeder, David (June 29, 2022). "Sun-Times, WBEZ lease space in Old Post Office". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved December 26, 2023. - The article states that the company moved out of Wabash in 2004 and moved into a Racine facility in 2017. Since "Emanuel leads cheer for latest corporate HQ to move to Chicago," a 2017 article by that newspaper, described it as the Sun-Times building, the gap of years is when the newspaper was in that building.
External links
- Media related to Apparel Center at Wikimedia Commons
- Apparel Center[Emporis.com
- EQ Office: 350 North Orleans