Riverwalk ready to be fitted with glass doors

(Above) Riverwalk construction between State and Dearborn Streets on Friday. The dark areas at the back of the Riverwalk will start to take shape this week with steel structures and glass doors. (Click on images to view larger versions.)

17-Nov-14 – Glass doors will start to be installed on the Chicago Riverwalk this week. The doors will be toward the rear of the Riverwalk between State Street and Dearborn Street. The area will also start to get various steel structures as the stretch of Riverwalk, named Marina Plaza, takes shape.

A steel canopy is being installed over the part of the Riverwalk that passes under the Clark Street Bridge. The surface of the walkway is getting pre-cast granite on which visitors will walk.

Also this week, crews will continue installing concrete blocks that will make up the walls of longer passageways – and concrete forms for walls, stair footings, and planters, along with electrical conduits and an irrigation system. They will also continue pumping water out of the spaces between the old and new river walls.

The 152-foot-long pre-cast concrete walkways are also being installed under the State Street and Dearborn Street bridges. (Left) A walkway west of the State Street Bridge on November 11.

The Chicago Department of Transportation says the stretch of Riverwalk between State Street and Clark Street will be “substantially complete” by mid-December. The landscaping will be installed in early spring and by March 2015, three blocks of the Riverwalk, from State Street west to LaSalle Street, will be open to the public.

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