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Defining Downtown Chicago Living in one of Chicago's finest
architectural gems located in the Historic Diamond District of the Loop.
Designed
for flexibility, the Heritage features 358 residences with 27 different
floor plans, ranging in size from 800 to 5,000 square feet (74 to 465
m2), 600 deeded parking spaces and 110,000 square feet (10,219 m2) of
retail space.
The luxurious Heritage, overlooking and bordered
by Millennium Park, The Lake, the historic diamond district and
Michigan Avenue is a two tiered, mixed use high rise, towering 57
stories. The architectural team of Solomon Cordwell Buenz &
associates and the development team, led by Mesa Development,
accomplished an extraordinary feat with the creation and development of
The Heritage. Planning for the tower began in 2000, prior to the
construction of Millennium Park and well before the park became an
internationally renowned public space. An important element in the
planning, design and construction of the Heritage, incorporate the
restoration of four historic commercial, five story facades. These turn
of the century, Historic Landmark facades are at the Western base of
Wabash Avenue. The limestone, sandstone, brick and terra cotta facades
have been masterfully restored at a cost in excess of $4 million which
included reproducing intricate terra-cotta ornamentation from archival
drawings and photographs, as well as cannibalizing face brick from a
demolished building, and bracing the historic storefronts while
construction went on behind them. Behind these storefronts are two
levels of retail space and, above them, five levels of parking. Because
the residential tower is set back from the street, pedestrians see only
what appears to be five-story historic facades, looking much as they
have since the area was redeveloped after the Great Chicago Fire of
1871. The Heritage is the first such project to introduce modern
luxury, high-rise living south of the Chicago River, in the heart of
the traditional business district of Chicago's Loop.
"The
building makes a bold architectural statement on a site highly visible
to Millennium park's millions of visitors. Graceful curves and the
intricately articulated exterior of the tower relate to the grand scale
of the modern office buildings to the north, while its podium of four
preserved and restored historic facades respect the 20th-century
cornice lines of the pedestrian-level street wall to the south."
"Developing
the Heritage at Millennium Park was a once-in-a-lifetime experience at
a site that offered incredible opportunities and presented a number of
unusual obstacles, ranging from assembling nine separate parcels to
overcoming a strong market perception that high-end home buyer's won't
pay to live downtown, comments Richard Hanson, principal, Mesa
Development. "Overall, this development required a giant leap of faith.
We believed in the site, overlooking the unfinished Millennium Park,
and believed in Mayor Daley's vision for a 24/7 downtown. We had one
chance to make this property everything it could and should be for
decades to come, and that's what we achieved."