⑥ the Chicago Evening Post building, are a trio of new Wacker drive skyscrapers across the river from the mart. ③ is Tribune Tower ④ the Builders’ building No. It will be more than twice as large as the present world’s biggest business building, the Furniture mart, shown as No. It will front on the new river drive between Wells and Orleans street bridges, extending back to Kinzie street. ① is the Merchandise Mart to be erected on the site of the former Chicago and North Western railroad Kinzie station, from plans by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. How the new Avondale motorway (eventually the Kennedy Expressway) will connect with Canal street and North Wacker drive is shown above. sixteen story building, on the site of the old Kinzie street station of the Chicago and North Western. ① in the map is the site of the $15,000,000 Marshall Field & Co. It was sketched for the Chicago Plan commission by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White. This is a conception of how the Chicago River will look when North Wacker drive balances the present Wacker drive along the south bank.
With work started on this bridge and construction begun on the section of North Wacker drive between the east end of the new bridge and Wells street, it is the belief of the Chicago Plan commission that the continuation of the river boulevard eastwards to the mouth of the river will be pushed through as fast as possible. Instead of having the bridge at Kinzie, however, it is planned to have it a block to the south, and connect Canal street with a magnificent bridge across to the first unit of North Wacker drive, in front of the new Field building.
Simultaneously with this decision comes the report that James Simpson, president of the Chicago Plan commission, and also head of Marshall Field & Co., will at once call for the carrying out of a clause in the Union station ordinance which provides that the railroads entering the depot must widen Canal street north to Kinzie and erect a bridge across the north branch at that point. intend donating enough land in front of the huge building to provde the first unit of the north bank drive. This assurance is obtained from the fact that Marshall Field & Co. Marshall Field & Company’s decision to consolidate all of its wholesale, warehouse and and manufacturing activities in Chicago in a huge $15,000,000 sixteen story structure on the site of the old Chicago and Northwestern Kinzie street terminal, announced for the first time yesterday, definitely assures a duplication of Wacker drive on the north bank of the river from its mouth where the north branch enters. $15,000,000 Field Project Puts North Wacker Drive on Map. The Merchandise Mart has everything you need to create a beautiful home whilst getting any of your daily activities done – a truly incredible place to take in.Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White This area includes apparel shops, beauty services, bookstores and newsstands, financial services, telecommunication services, travel services, specialty food and wine stores, photo services, a dry cleaner, shoe shine stand, a food court, and both a USPS and FedEx location. In addition to being a resource for architects and decorators, the Mart also features a retail shopping area called The Shops at the Mart. Several stores offer items for purchase, while others offer design services, preservation, renovation, or installation. Unlike stores with traditional displays, entire designed rooms are created, thereby providing consumers with an opportunity to compare form and function, while defining and refining their personal style aesthetic. Select showrooms are open only to wholesalers, with others accessible to the general public. The “showroom” concept remains, as manufacturers and distributors rent showrooms on about half of the floors of The Mart today.
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Targeting consumers, designers, and department store buyers, The Mart attracts every sort of professional and retail buyer to the building. Since the mid-1940’s, showrooms in The Merchandise Mart have displayed almost every kind of product produced.
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