High-rise hotel planned near McDonald’s West Loop HQ breaks cover

Photo by Eckenhoff Saunders Architects

By: Jay Koziarz | July 19, 2017 | Chicago.Curbed.com

After breaking ground on the block-sized corporate headquarters at 110 N. Carpenter and getting approval for a 12-story “vendor village” at 210 N. Carpenter, developer Sterling Bay is lining up the next piece of McDonald’s move from its suburban Oak Brook campus to Chicago’s hot West Loop. Last night, representatives from Sterling Bay and Chicago-based design firm Eckenhoff Saunders Architects publicly unveiled plans for a 19-story Hyatt hotel that would serve primarily as extended-stay corporate housing for attendees of the fast food giant’s “Hamburger University” training program. Read More....