GOLD COAST — The big, empty former Jewel-Osco store at Clark and Division streets is finally coming down nearly six months after it closed its doors to make way for an apartment tower.
Demolition crews were out Tuesday morning at the shuttered grocery, 1210 N. Clark St., and started their work by ripping out the store's glass awning.
Smashin' and grabbin' pic.twitter.com/ofJb07Y7AI
— David Lee Matthews (@DavidLMatthews) October 27, 2015The grocery, which closed in May, will be replaced by The Sinclair, a 35-story, 390-unit luxury rental tower. Developed by Chicago-based Fifield Cos., the tower will include a new, bigger Jewel-Osco and is expected to open in 2017.
[Rendering courtesy of Solomon Cordwell Buenz]
Demo permit issued for shuttered Cedar Hotel
Meanwhile, a demolition permit has been issued for the shuttered Cedar Hotel at State and Rush streets.
That building, which in prior lives served separately as a single-room-occupancy hotel and a bar, will have its brick-and-terra cotta facade dismantled and rebuilt for a new, 180-room Viceroy hotel. City records show the city council signed off on the development last month.
But on Tuesday morning the only work seen to date was the chopping down of a tree left on the former hotel's patio.
[DNAinfo/David Matthews]
A Viceroy spokeswoman declined to comment on the project, and an executive with developer Convexity Properties did not return messages.
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