900 North Michigan

900 North Michigan

General information
Type	Mixed
Location	900 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Completed	1989
Height
Roof	871 ft (265 m)
Technical details
Floor count	66
Design and construction
Architect	Kohn Pedersen Fox HKS, Inc.
Developer	Urban Retail Properties
Main contractor	J.A. Jones Construction

900 North Michigan in Chicago is a skyscraper completed in 1989. At 871 feet (265 m) tall, it is currently the eighth tallest building in Chicago and the 31st tallest in the United States. It was developed by Urban Retail Properties in 1988 as an upscale sister to Water Tower Place, one block southeast, and was the second vertical mall built along the Magnificent Mile.

The building features a large, upscale shopping mall called 900 North Michigan Shops. Bloomingdale's occupies the rear of its wide, six-story atrium, with other luxury shops and restaurants filling the remaining spaces. For this reason, it is commonly referred to as the "Bloomingdale's Building".^[1] The mall opened with Henri Bendel as a "junior anchor". The layout of the retail area reflects lessons learned from Water Tower Place; the anchor's placement at the rear draws shoppers through the space and creates leasable space with valuable Michigan Avenue frontage, while the arrangement of escalators in parallel, rather than in zig-zags, directs foot traffic past more shops.

Offices originally occupied floors 8-29, but floors 21-29 were converted to condo units in 2007, leaving offices on floors 8-20. The luxurious Four Seasons Hotel occupies the middle floors (30-46) of the tower. Floors 47-66 are part of the 132 East Delaware Residences, these 106 condominiums were part of the original building plan. A large 12-story parking garage, with retail on the ground level and a medical clinic atop, occupies the rear half of the block, facing Rush Street.

The exterior of the tower is clad in limestone and green glass which reflects the light. The building has a steel skeleton on which a concrete frame was erected for the upper floors. Because the building materials changed, cranes used to work on the lower floors could not be used for the concrete portion and new cranes had to be erected to complete the building. Four lit "lanterns" atop the structure give it a distinctive skyline presence. They change colors for the Christmas season.^[1]

Tenants

Retailers

View from John Hancock Center

Retailers at the 900 Shops include:^[2]

Position in Chicago's skyline

The skyline of a city with many large skyscrapers; in the foreground are a green park and a lake with many sailboats moored on it. Over 30 of the skyscrapers and some park features are labeled.

External links

References

1 2 http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=900northmichigan-chicago-il-usa emporis.com
↑ 900 Shops directory

Coordinates: 41°53′59″N 87°37′30″W / 41.89972°N 87.62500°W / 41.89972; -87.62500

Chicago Skyscrapers

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Selected towers with 20 or more floors	35 East Wacker 55 East Erie Street 77 West Wacker Drive 111 South Wacker Drive 155 North Wacker 181 West Madison Street 311 South Wacker Drive 330 North Wabash 333 North Michigan 333 Wacker Drive 340 on the Park 401 East Ontario 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments 900 North Michigan 1700 East 56th Street ABN AMRO Plaza Allerton Hotel Aqua Bilandic Building Blackstone Hotel Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower Boeing International Headquarters Carbide & Carbon Building The Chandler Chase Tower Chicago Board of Trade Building Chicago Place Chicago Temple Building Chicago Title and Trust Center Citigroup Center City Hall Square Building Civic Opera House Coast at Lakeshore East CNA Center Crain Communications Building Dirksen Federal Building Field Building Fisher Building FOUR40 Four Seasons Hotel Chicago Harbor Point Hilton Chicago Home Insurance Building Hyatt Center James R. Thompson Center Joffrey Tower Kluczynski Federal Building Lake Point Tower The Lancaster LaSalle-Wacker Building Legacy Tower Leo Burnett Building London Guarantee Building Marina City Masonic Temple Mather Tower Metropolitan Tower Montauk Building NBC Tower Olympia Centre One Magnificent Mile One Museum Park One North LaSalle One North Wacker One Prudential Plaza Outer Drive East Palmer House Hotel Palmolive Building Park Tower The Parkshore Peoples Gas Building Pittsfield Building Plaza 440 Powhatan Apartments The Regatta Regents Park Richard J. Daley Center River East Center Roanoke Building and Tower The Shoreham Skybridge The Buckingham The Fordham The Heritage at Millennium Park The Grant The Pinnacle Three First National Plaza The Tides Time-Life Building Tribune Tower Virgin Hotels Chicago Waldorf Astoria Chicago Water Tower Place Wrigley Building

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See also	Architecture Art Deco Chicago City Hall Chicago School Tallest buildings Washington Block

Chicago area shopping malls

Enclosed	108 North State Street 900 North Michigan Belvidere Mall Century Centre Chicago Place Chicago Ridge Mall Deerbrook Mall Fashion Outlets of Chicago Ford City Mall Fox Valley Mall Golf Mill Shopping Center Gurnee Mills Harlem Irving Plaza Hawthorn Mall Lincolnwood Town Center Louis Joliet Mall North Riverside Park Mall Northbrook Court Northfield Square Oak Mill Mall Orland Square The Quad St. Charles River Oaks Center Shops at the Mart The Shops at North Bridge Southlake Mall Spring Hill Mall Stratford Square Mall The Village Shopping Center Water Tower Place Woodfield Mall Yorktown Center

Lifestyle/Outdoor	Algonquin Commons Algonquin Galleria The Arboretum of South Barrington Chicago Premium Outlets Deer Park Town Center Geneva Commons The Glen Town Center Lincolnshire Commons Main Street Promenade Oakbrook Center Orland Park Crossing Plaza del Lago Porter's Vale The Promenade Bolingbrook The Quentin Collection Randhurst Village Renaissance Place The Streets of Woodfield Town Square Wheaton Westfield Old Orchard

Former/Defunct	1800 N. Clybourn Brementowne Mall Brickyard Mall Century Mall Crystal Point Mall Dixie Square Mall Hillcrest Shopping Center Jefferson Square Mall Lakehurst Mall Lincoln Mall Meadows Town Mall Meadowvale Mall North Pier Old Chicago One Schaumburg Place Orland Park Place Park Forest Mall The Plaza St. Charles Mall South Commons Mall Town & Country Center Washington Square Mall (Homewood, Illinois)

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