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Onni Group proposes 29-story Fulton Market office tower

Project includes height change connecting Halsted and Green streets

Onni Group's Innocenzo De Cotiis and rendering of pedestrian walkway plaza (City of Chicago, Getty, Onni Group)
Onni Group's Innocenzo De Cotiis and rendering of pedestrian walkway plaza (City of Chicago, Getty, Onni Group)

After making some of the biggest bets in Chicago on multifamily development in recent years, Onni Group is diving back into offices with a new Fulton Market proposal.

The Vancouver, Canada-based developer is pursuing city approval for a 457-foot-tall, 29-story office tower at 357 North Green Street, across the street from Sterling Bay’s 360 North Green project, Crain’s reported. The project will rise above the Kennedy Expressway, a portion of which sits underground the property and runs diagonally through it from below.

The project is being designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz and will include 676,000 square feet of office space and 14,000 square feet of retail. Plans also call for five floors of parking with spaces for 276 vehicles.

There will be a height-changing public pedestrian walkway through an “activated plaza” and publicly accessible elevators that will allow people to go from Green Street up to Halstead Street.

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Just to the east, Onni Group is including a 56-room extended-stay hotel in its apartment tower development at 352 North Union Street. The hotel, being built on the same site as a 33-story, 373-unit residential tower, is aiming to serve as a bridge for employees in the middle of relocating to work for companies with offices in the nearby Fulton Market District just to the west of Interstate 90 from the hotel site.

The new office project will be reviewed by the Committee on Design next week, a body that could offer feedback that ultimately changes the plans. Since the site will most likely need to be rezoned for the project, Onni Group still needs approvals from the Chicago Plan Commission, the Committee on Zoning and the city council.

Onni is also the developer behind the Halsted Point proposal that would bring more than 2,000 apartments across multiple towers to the southern tip of Goose Island as a redevelopment of a former Greyhound bus station. The firm also bought another development site just south of that Goose Island property that could be turned into another highrise adjacent to where the Bally’s casino is set to be built in River West.

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— Victoria Pruitt

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