Thursday, September 8, 2011

Two South Loop Buildings get Preservation Excellence Award


Shout-out to two South Loop buildings that were given "preservation excellence awards" by the city of Chicago recently. Here is a quick blurb from curbed chicago:


Winning projects include office restoration, exterior renovations, and last but not least, a rare surviving example of a first generation White Castle (occupied by the Chef Luciano & Gourmet Chicken restaurant). The 80-year old White Castle structure was restored to its glory days by replacing brick, returning signage and lighting to historic placements, and recreating the crenellated tower. You can see, while charming, it would have trouble accommodating drive-thru (image above). Particularly impressive to us, Columbia College's exterior restoration of its large neoclassical main campus building involved rebuilding the entire bracketed stone cornice and repairing large sections of brick and limestone. Located at 600 Michigan Ave, this is an important piece of the historic streetwall.
Congrats to everyone involved and way to represent the Sloop!

(Image from Curbed Chicago!)

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where is the quoted text from? I know people cut you slack for being a one man operation, but it's *never* okay to lift text from another source without citing it....

Anonymous said...

There's something that just seems right about the fact that the award went to a former White Castle. Go sloop!

Jeff said...

Yes, a couple friendly suggestions:

Always give a cite or a link. Also, when mentioning specific places, please give an address, or at least an intersection... or at the very least call out to ask the community what the address is.

Thanks.

Anonymous said...

It says right before the "quoted text" exactly where the text is from...so quick to jump on Sloopin but if you read the story you would have found exactly what you asked about.

Sloopy said...

anon 9:10 - thanks for sticking up for Sloopin, but anon 7:59 was right in this instance. The post didn't initially mention that the quote was from Curbed Chicago (which wasn't intentional, it was just an oversight on our part).

Regardless, thanks to everyone for reading Sloopin!

Anonymous said...

Thanks Anon @ 9:10, I was just about to comment in regards to the same. And yes, there is also a link to the story it came from, right where they state where the quoted text came from! Try reading an article thoroughly before you start deconstructing it.

Rocky said...

Thanks everyone for your comments. We are very proud of this award and are excited with the way the renovation turned out. We welcome all of our South Loop neighbors down to see the renovation and try our food.

And for those asking, the address is 49 E Cermak, at the SE corner of Cermak & Wabash.

Rocky Gupta
Owner/Manager Chef Luciano Inc

Anonymous said...

To those who have not yet been to Chef Lucianos and/or Gourmet Chicken, you really should do so. Best chicken EVER!

Anonymous said...

Man, how could you not know where Chef Luciano's is?! That place is delicious. Hope to see you down there, now that you know the address, Jeff.