The property of the new building, except for the caisons, begins twenty-three feet above the datum.Īs originally announced on March 12, 1927, the Field building was to cost $15,000,000. In addition to claiming the honor of being the world’s largest business building, the project will be the largest single development of air rights in the world. The big Merchandise Mart will have about 4,000,000 square feet, more than twice as much. Just to settle this point right now, we’ll add that the Furniture Mart contains approximately 1,925,000 square feet of floor area. The Merchandise Mart will be so much larger than its nearest competitor in the race for the “world’s largest business building,” now held by the Chicago Furniture Mart, that there should be no rumpus raised even by the most skeptical statistician. Field & Co., however, will occupy considerably more than half of the building’s space with their wholesale and manufacturing sales departments. activities, is to be known as the Merchandise Mart and will house several hundred mercantile firms. The new structure, work on which is to start at once, instead of being a building devoted entirely to Marshall Field & Co. Scope, size and cost of the proposed gigantic Marshall Field & Co., building on the site of the old Kinzie street station of the Chicago and North Western railroad, on the north bank of the river between Wells and Orleans streets, announced more than a year ago, have been enlarged to such a tremendous extent that it’s now presented again virtually as a brand new project. 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. Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
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