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38-692: The Joffrey Tower is a high-rise commercial real estate development on the northeast corner of North State Street and East Randolph Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County , Illinois , United States that is the permanent home of the Joffrey Ballet . It is located immediately south of the Chicago Theatre and directly across the street from Macy's largest Chicago (and its second largest overall ) department store on State Street, within

76-506: A 27,000 square feet (2,500 m) retail store on the first two floors on October 12, 2007. This location is part of the transformation of State Street to a retail and student-housing mecca, and further solidifies the revitalization of Randolph Street's theatre district. Loehmann's filed for bankruptcy November 16, 2010 and closed the State Street location January 29, 2011, after less than 4 years in operation. Walgreens , which had occupied

114-582: A goal of $ 35 million for Joffrey Tower construction costs and an endowment . When the purchase was finalized, the Joffrey had $ 2.5 million in reserves and the state had recently approved a $ 4 million grant. The construction costs alone were estimated to be $ 21 million. The fundraising enticements include the possibility that for $ 10 million a corporate donor could acquire renaming rights to the entire building and for lesser amounts they could acquire naming rights for various specific spaces. Facility details released at

152-405: A more efficient and accomplished organization. The new space nearly doubles the current space. The planned space allows the company to rehearse and present more of its repertoire , mount additional full-length ballets , extend its apprentice program, launch additional revivals, and provide young dancers and choreographers the opportunity to train and present their new works. Loehmann's opened

190-570: A pair of $ 25,000 Van Cleef and Arpels diamond earrings. The building is located on the site of the former Masonic Temple , which had once been the tallest building in Chicago. Since the demolition of the Masonic Temple, the address had housed a two-story retail building. One failed previous plan to replace the small retail building on the site was the Market Hall Tower, proposed in 2000, which

228-563: A typical pharmacy. Some of the features included a cigar humidor , international newsstand, made-to-order smoothies, self-serve frozen yogurt, sushi and juice bars, a barista, over 700 fine wines, and manicure stations. The Walgreens investment was part of a business strategy to combat governmentally-induced declining pharmacy margins. Residents of the building are zoned to Chicago Public Schools . Residents are zoned to South Loop K-8 and Phillips Academy High School . State Street (Chicago) From north to south, State Street traverses

266-515: Is housed on the upper floors of the tower. In October 2015, Michael Jordan opened his first store at 32 South State St. and is branded as 32 South State. The flagship store included retail shopping, Chicago Bulls memorabilia, a training lab for local youth, and a basketball court on the upper levels. In July 2019, Primark announced its U.S. market expansion to Chicago with a three-level 45,000 square foot flagship location on State Street where Gap formerly housed its flagship store. The location

304-548: Is scheduled to open in 2020 and will be its first store in the Midwest. In November 2019, Uniqlo opened its second Chicago location on North State Street replacing the two-level H&M at 22 N. State. State Street is primarily served by 29 State , a CTA bus route that runs from Navy Pier to 95th/Dan Ryan station via State Street. At 69th Street, bus route 29 splits so that southbound buses travel along Lafayette Avenue and northbound buses travel along State Street; starting at

342-740: The Bataan Death March . Van Cleef and Arpels Van Cleef & Arpels is a French luxury jewelry company. It was founded in 1896 by the Dutch diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law Salomon Arpels in Paris . Their pieces often feature flowers, animals and fairies. The Dutch diamond-cutter Alfred Van Cleef and his father-in-law, Salomon Arpels, founded the company in 1896. In 1906, following Arpels’s death, Alfred and two of his brothers-in-law, Charles and Julien , acquired space for Van Cleef & Arpels at 22 Place Vendôme , across from

380-589: The Chadstone Shopping Centre . They continued their expansion into Oceania in 2022, when a store opened in New Zealand on Auckland 's Queen Street . They also operate independent boutiques in the Middle East , South America and Asia . In 2010/2011, the company's estimated sales were €450 million in total sales and €45 million in watches. A 1936 Van Cleef & Arpels custom jewelry piece with

418-690: The Dan Ryan Expressway from 65th Street south to just beyond 95th Street , where State Street crosses the I-94 Bishop Ford Memorial Freeway to enter Roseland. The northern portion of the Vincennes Trace or Vincennes Trail, a buffalo (bison) migration route and a Native American trail which ran some 250 miles to Vincennes, Indiana , was called Hubbard's Trace or Hubbard's Trail since it connected Chicago with Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard 's more southerly trading outposts. It took on

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456-461: The Hôtel Ritz , where Van Cleef & Arpels opened its first boutique shop. The third Arpels brother, Louis Arpels , joined the company in 1913. Van Cleef & Arpels opened boutiques in holiday resorts such as Deauville , Vichy , Le Touquet , Nice , and Monte-Carlo . In 1925, a Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet with red and white roses fashioned from rubies and diamonds won the grand prize at

494-518: The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts . Alfred and Esther’s daughter, Renée (born Rachel) Puissant, assumed the company’s artistic direction in 1926. Puissant worked closely with draftsman René Sim Lacaze for the next twenty years. Van Cleef & Arpels were the first French jewelers to open boutiques in Japan and China. Van Cleef & Arpels was charged with

532-637: The Loop Retail Historic District . Its address had once been the site of the Chicago Masonic Temple . The placement of the Joffrey Ballet in this building appears to have involved political dealings with the Mayor of Chicago , Richard M. Daley and his brother, William M. Daley , a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees . The building was scheduled for completion in December 2007, but

570-593: The hard hat preview and launch include the following: In Chicago, the administration and the performers had previously been in separate buildings. The Joffrey Ballet had rented both a 17,000-square-foot (1,600 m) rehearsal studio at 17 N. State Street, which it leased in July 2005, and administrative offices at 70 E. Lake Street. The Joffrey now has the company's creative leadership, dancers , administration, technical staff, guest artists, students , and apprentices united under one roof, creating streamlined operations and

608-782: The Green Line from 18th Street to Harrison Street and into the Loop Elevated ). State Street is the location of many landmarks in downtown Chicago : Landmarks on State Street in Chicago's South Side , south of Roosevelt Road, include: The bridge where State Street crosses the Chicago River is named the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge in honor of the World War II defenders of Bataan and Corregidor including those in

646-468: The Joffrey Tower house retail tenants and floors 9 through 32 host residential condominiums . All four of the foundation floors are 14 feet (4.3 m) high. The four-story cutout above the foundation and green roof is capped by "legs" with only elevators and stairwells that compensate for the fact the building does not have the typical lower level parking spaces to improve the views by raising

684-716: The Joffrey administrative offices plus seven state-of-the-art rehearsal studios and a black-box theatre . The building occupies the southwest quarter of the block bounded by North State Street to the West, North Wabash Street to the East, East Randolph Street to the South, and East Lake Street to the North. The Modern Momentum Project now holds the Joffrey name when the Ballet company took possession (originally anticipated in December 2007). The first two floors of

722-595: The Loop in part by re-establishing a central theatre district. The Joffrey Tower is within three blocks of Cadillac Palace , Chicago , Goodman , Harris , Ford Center/Oriental , and Storefront Theatres , as well as the Chicago Cultural Center , the Tiffany -decorated former central library. The Joffrey Ballet launched its first Chicago capital campaign on March 7, 2007. As of May 2008, it has raised $ 30 million towards

760-549: The State Street Revitalization Project and on November 15, 1996, the street was reopened to traffic. During the second half of the 20th century, State Street was eclipsed by Michigan Avenue's Magnificent Mile as a shopping district. Various projects to restore State Street's shopping attraction have been met with some success, and the State Street corridor is gaining residential as well as more traditional commercial development. Anchored by Macy's Chicago ,

798-532: The company has multiple locations, including its flagship store at Place Vendôme . In the United States , the company operates standalone boutiques in Boston , Dallas , Las Vegas , Manhasset , Naples , Palm Beach , San Francisco , Bal Harbour , Chicago , Houston , McLean , King of Prussia , Short Hills , Aspen , Beverly Hills , Costa Mesa and Miami alongside their New York City flagship store, which

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836-466: The flagship location is the world's second largest department store by square footage. The 12-story building features many historical landmarks including a Tiffany & Co. Dome. The Block 37 opened in 2009 at State and Washington, bringing with it a large group of upscale retailers to North State Street including Anthropologie , L'Occitane en Provence , Banana Republic , Zara , Disney Store , Godiva , Sephora , and an AMC Theatres location on

874-468: The following community areas of Chicago : Near North Side to the Chicago River , Chicago Loop to Roosevelt Road, Near South Side to 26th Street, Douglas to 39th Street, Grand Boulevard to 51st Street, Washington Park to 63rd Street, Grand Crossing to 79th Street, Chatham to 91st Street, Roseland to 115th Street, and West Pullman to 127th Street, where it terminates across from Riverdale Bend Woods. The street runs parallel and adjacent to

912-841: The fourth floor. On the Pedway level is the Blue Line's Washington station and Red Line's Lake station both connected underground. The department store chain Carson Pirie Scott closed their flagship store on State Street on February 21, 2007 after over 100 years of business in that location. Target opened their 125,000 square feet State Street store in the landmark Carson Pirie Scott building later in 2012. On January 12, 2012, Walgreens opened its U.S. flagship location at Randolph Street , where it had previously existed from 1926 to 2005, when construction of Joffrey Tower necessitated its demolition. The renowned Chicago-based Joffrey Ballet

950-526: The historic Chicago Theatre . The latter was lit by Commercial Light Company in 1958, making it the brightest thoroughfare in the world, according to the Chicago Tribune . State Street became a shopping destination during the 1900s and is referred to in the song " Chicago ," which mentions "State Street, that great street." In 1979, the downtown portion was converted into a pedestrian mall with only bus traffic allowed. Mayor Richard M. Daley oversaw

988-480: The name State Road after some state-funded improvements. Vincennes Avenue, one of Chicago's rare diagonal streets, is a vestige of the Vincennes Trace, and further south the trail eventually became Illinois Route 1 . In its early days, State Road was unpaved and known for having mud so deep it was jokingly said that it could suck down a horse and buggy. In the late 1860s, Potter Palmer embarked on efforts to raise

1026-408: The profile and prestige of State Street. He enticed Marshall Field and Levi Leiter to move their prosperous and growing department store, Field, Leiter & Co. , to the corner of State and Washington Streets in 1868, and he built his own Palmer House Hotel nearby in 1870. For many years the city's most well-known seafood retailer, Burhop's Seafood , was located on North State Street, as well as

1064-462: The property from 1926 until 2005, announced that it would take over the Loehmann's space and operate a two-level drugstore, opening in 2012. The location was developed as a two-story 27,350-square-foot (2,541 m) flagship location that was unveiled with dignitaries such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on January 12, 2012, selling a range of amenities far beyond that of

1102-562: The split, both of the streets are frontage roads for the Dan Ryan Expressway. Multiple other bus routes, such as bus route 36 in downtown, run along State Street in segments to serve a train station or downtown. The Red Line parallels State Street from 95th Street to Marquette Road and from 13th Street to Division Street. The Green Line parallels State Street from 40th Street to Harrison Street (the Orange Line runs concurrently with

1140-473: The summer of 2008. The grand opening events, including performances by Shelley MacArthur and Ramsey Lewis , were sponsored by The PrivateBank, Bank of America , and the McCormick Foundation. July 2008 advertisements announced a September 12, 2008 opening night and a set of opening events from September 11 to 15. The building was designed by Booth Hansen Architects. Construction started in 2005 and

1178-493: The task of making the crown of Queen Nazli of Egypt in the 1930s. In 1966, Van Cleef & Arpels was charged with the task of making the crown of Empress Farah Pahlavi for her upcoming coronation in 1967. A significant challenge in creating the crown was that all the precious stones had to be selected from the Imperial Treasury of Iran, and none of the gems could leave the country, so the work had to be done there. A team

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1216-457: The units. The building's main largest rehearsal space had been named the Arpino Studio in honor of Gerald Arpino , Joffrey Ballet co-founder and artistic director emeritus. The building was originally scheduled for completion in December 2007 with the official renaming and company move accompanying the completion. By January 2008, the anticipated grand opening had been rescheduled to occur in

1254-736: Was completed for the September 2008 grand opening. The height of the structure is 409 feet (125 m) (including spires and antennae ). The September 11, 2008, free performance at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion served the dual purpose of heralding the grand opening weekend and paying tribute to the September 11 attacks victims. Other events during the grand opening weekend included a September 12 black tie gala, September 13 Tower tours, and September 15 party and fashion show . The September 15 event also included an auction for various items, including

1292-537: Was not finished until September 12, 2008. The building was originally named the Modern Momentum Building (nicknamed the MoMo). Like the ballet company, it has been named after Robert Joffrey , co-founder of the company. The Joffrey Ballet acquired the naming rights when it purchased 45,000 square feet (4,200 m) of space on the third and fourth floors to serve as its new permanent home. The floors include

1330-537: Was prohibitive. Supposedly, the city of Chicago held the development of this project hostage until the developer agreed to the Joffrey initiative. The delay tactic used was to delay closing long enough to cause the developer to have to file suit. William Daley , a co-chairman of the Joffrey board of trustees , is a former Cabinet member in the Clinton administration and clout-heavy brother of Chicago's former mayor , Richard M. Daley . The arts-loving mayor has revitalized

1368-559: Was redesigned in 2013. The Chicago boutique opened in 2001 at 636 North Michigan Avenue and moved to a larger location within the Drake Hotel in November 2011. They also operate boutiques within selected Neiman Marcus stores. The brand expanded to Australia in 2016, opening a boutique at Collins Street , Melbourne . The following year, another boutique opened at Castlereagh Street , Sydney . A second Melbourne boutique opened in 2018 in

1406-614: Was sent to Iran to choose the major gems to use for the crown. After 11 months of work, the company presented the empress with a crown made of emerald velvet set with 36 emeralds, 36 rubies, 105 pearls and 1,469 diamonds. Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A. acquired the firm in 1999. Van Cleef & Arpels has 155 stores. Products are in standalone boutiques, boutiques within major department stores, and in independent stores. Standalone boutiques are present in Geneva , Zürich , Vienna , Munich , London , Milan , Shanghai and Paris, where

1444-502: Was to have a two-story European style food market and 75 spacious apartments in the adjacent 26-story, 291-foot (89 m) tower. Another failed plan was the subsequent 33-story Randolph Court design. The Daley administration has been a proponent of the Joffrey Ballet having a permanent Theatre District home in order to establish it as a major Chicago institution. However, the cost of building their own building at State and Lake

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