Proof of Your Privilege
An alley I’ve photographed before methinks, but not with about six inches of snow covering.
Hipstamatic snapshot, using the Florence Lens, and BlacKeys Extra Fine Film
Currently #323 in Flickr Explore for December 12th, 2013.
Tag: Fulton_Market
Google Going to Fulton Market After All?
A Tiny Little Cog in The Machine
There were credible rumors1 that Google was going to move into the West Loop, but then Google signed a lease in River North instead. However, according to Crain’s Chicago, it still might happen:
Google Inc. is mapping new office territory in Chicago. The Mountain View, Calif.-based technology giant is in talks to move its Chicago office to the city’s meatpacking district, where it would lease more than 200,000 square feet, sources say. If a deal is struck, it would dramatically reshape the gentrifying Fulton Market-Randolph area, where foodies flock to a thriving restaurant row but major office tenants have yet to arrive. Landing one of the world’s most recognizable companies would bring instant legitimacy to an office market now made up of small tenants in low-rise loft buildings.
… “Google is an unbelievable engine,” says Chicago tenant broker Bob Chodos, a principal at Seattle-based Colliers International who is not involved in the Google deal. “Wherever they go gets bigger.” Google’s employees, mostly in sales, are outgrowing the Kinzie Street tower where the company’s lease for about 150,000 square feet expires at the end of 2015. As Google expands here, it is expected to need more than 200,000 square feet, and possibly up to 300,000, sources say.
Enter Sterling Bay Cos., which reached an agreement to buy the 10-story Fulton Market Cold Storage warehouse, the tallest in the neighborhood, in 2011. The Chicago developer is converting the existing building and an attached new structure into about 540,000 square feet of office and retail at 1000 W. Fulton St. by late next year.
In addition to Google, Boka Restaurant Group—which includes chef Stephanie Izard’s nearby Girl & the Goat and Little Goat Diner—is finalizing a deal for a steakhouse on the ground floor of the former meat storage facility, sources say.
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Already, construction of a Soho House hotel is underway near the intersection of Halsted and Randolph streets. Nobu Hospitality Group, whose owners include actor Robert De Niro, in March confirmed its desire to put another boutique hotel and a Japanese restaurant on Randolph.
(click here to continue reading Has Google outgrown River North? – In Other News – Crain’s Chicago Business.)
I’ve taken a few photos of this building over the years…
Peel Back the Sky
You People
West Loop Castle Magic
In Need of A Few Good Windows
Greater Fulton Market
May You Build a Ladder to the Stars
Dreaming of Fulton Market Cold Storage
Greater Fulton Market
Fulton Market with Lounge – Red Bleach
A Photographer in Fulton Market
- which I swear I blogged about, but now cannot find [↩]
She Wandered Alone
West Fulton
she arrived
shortly
after the end
of the world
she
wandered
alone
conversing
only with
specters,
demons and
shadows
A Moment In Time May 2nd 2010
The Lens blog of The New York Times invited all photographers, of all levels of skill, to submit a photo taken at 15:00 UTC, which translated into 10 AM C.S.T. for me.
May 2nd. Activists lingering at the Haymarket Riot Memorial Statue, with guitars and so forth.
Uploaded to the New York Times “A Moment in Time” global mosaic.
Where will you be on Sunday, May 2, at 15:00 hours (U.T.C.)?
Wherever you are, we hope you’ll have a camera — or a camera phone — in hand. And we hope you’ll be taking a picture to send to Lens that will capture this singular instant in whatever way you think would add to a marvelous global mosaic; a Web-built image of one moment in time across the world.
We extend the invitation to everyone, everywhere. Amateurs. Students. Pros. People who’ve been photographing for a lifetime or who just started yesterday.
What matters more than technique is the thought behind the picture, because you’ll only be sending us one. So please do think beforehand about where you will want to be and what you will want to focus on. Here are the general topics:
Religion
Play
Nature and the Environment
Family
Work
Arts and Entertainment
Money and the Economy
Community
Social Issues[Click to continue reading A Timely Global Mosaic, Created by All of Us – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com]
I was reading my Sunday papers (including, coincidentally, The New York Times), drinking my first coffee of the day, and almost forgot about the project. However, I remembered in time to put on a clean shirt and strap on my camera for a brief walk up and down my street. I took about a dozen photos, a few of which I’ve uploaded to Flickr. The photo above, of the Haymarket Riot Memorial Statue is the one I submitted, even though I’m not that happy with it, truth be told.
Here are a few others I took this morning. Click a photo to enlarge it…
Everlasting broken windows
Sunday morning Parking Lot
Constrained Urban Living – Polapan Blue
Rooftops
Green Roof-esque
Chicago Ice Age
Dreaming of Fulton Market Cold Storage
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Float
Flash: Off
Was considered to be converted into condos, but that was before the mortgage bubble ended.
