Of the 19 developments from around the globe that have been selected as finalists for the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) 2019 Global Awards for Excellence competition, four are located in the Midwest.

The 150 North Riverside project in Chicago earned the 2019 Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award, announced Thursday night at ASCE’s 20th annual Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Gala.

When it comes to skyscraper design, Chicago appears to stand tall above architecture in other cities. Orbitz, a travel fare website, created an illustrated timeline of 20 of Chicago’s most famous skyscrapers, shown in order to display the evolution of the city’s skyline.

MO Financial Group has confirmed plans to anchor a new 50-story office tower adjacent to Union Station, in a deal that will consolidate 3,600 downtown employees into a single building.

A two-story video wall comprised of 89 LED blades stands as a visually striking entrance at the lobby of 150 North Riverside Plaza. The 150-foot-long display inside Riverside Investment & Development’s office tower combines art, architecture and technology, featuring works of Chicago artists and those from around the world, all-but stopping visitors in their tracks.

Riverside Investment & Development will be honored at the USA Property Awards in association with Salice at The Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel on the 20th September for their project 150 North Riverside Plaza.

Developers of the state-of-the-art 150 N Riverside office building in Chicago’s West Loop had one goal in mind—to be the best. “We wanted to quite literally build the absolute best building not only in the city of Chicago but in the country,” says Tony Scacco, executive vice president of Riverside Investment & Development, developer of the LEED Gold property.

A more than $1 billion redevelopment of Union Station could begin as soon as next spring, starting with a seven-story glass-and-steel addition on top of its main building.

150 North Riverside was announced as a Vision Award winner at the ULI awards ceremony June 13, 2018.

Photo of Riverside Investment & Development shortly after the groundbreaking ceremony for the 110 N Wacker site.

The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) and Riverside Investment & Development, along with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Alderman Brendan Reilly, Commissioner David Reifman, Chicago President of Bank of America Paul Lambert and other stakeholders gathered yesterday to break ground on 110 North Wacker, the trophy-class office tower set along the Chicago River in the heart of Chicago’s Central Business district.

Wacker Drive’s next trophy office tower has taken a key step toward reality, with its developers securing almost $665 million in construction financing.

Lincoln International has just signed a lease to become the newest tenant of the trophy-class office tower rising on the riverfront at 110 North Wacker Dr., a project by The Howard Hughes Corp. and Riverside Investment and Development. A spokesperson for the developers tells GlobeSt.com that the new deal means the highly-anticipated, 53-story building is already 40% leased, even though it won’t open until 2020.

Digital Signage Expo (DSE), the world’s largest international tradeshow dedicated to showcasing innovative digital display and interactive technology solutions, has awarded McCann Systems its top honor for 150 Media Stream. The Chicago-based APEX Gold and APEX Installation of the Year winning digital art installation was designed, engineered, custom fabricated, and integrated by McCann Systems.

When John O’Donnell retired as an executive of the John Buck Co. in 2010 with more than 30 years and 40 million sq ft of investment, development and redevelopment experience under his belt, he didn’t envision starting another real estate company that would create iconic buildings, mostly along the Chicago River. And now that company, Riverside Investment and Development, has been named ENR Midwest’s Owner of the Year.

In April 2017, Riverside Investment and Development completed 150 N. Riverside, building a 1.2-million-sq-ft, $270-million, 54-story office tower on a 47-ft-wide foundation. The tower had a then-unheard-of 20-to-one foundation-to-height aspect ratio. It’s the most well-known of many times the 2017 Midwest Owner of the Year built what was previously thought to be impossible.

Check out our 150 N. Riverside video for the 2017 Chicago Innovation Awards

Companies that are tackling everything from the Zika virus and glutens to the hassles of shopping for musical equipment, restaurant reservations and parking all shared the spotlight tonight at the Chicago Innovation Awards. Since this is Chicago, a building can be an innovator, too.

Chicago is in a development boom period not seen in ages, with over $20B in megaprojects in various stages of development. Five Projects are in the Southwest Loop, and the ones with announced price tags account for $7.1B in activity.

Platinum Award: It took guts for a developer and its Building Team to take on a site others had shunned for most of a century.