{{Short description|Office skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois}} {{Use American English|date=April 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{About|the building in Chicago|the building in Limerick|Riverpoint}} {{Infobox building | name = River Point | image = Chicago September 2016-13.jpg | image_caption = River Point | location = 444 West Lake Street, [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]] | coordinates = {{Coord|41.886164|-87.639576|region:US-IL_type:landmark|display=title}} | pushpin_map = Chicago#Illinois#USA | status = Complete | former_names = 200 North Riverside Plaza | construction_start_date = 2013 | completion_date = 2017 | opening_date = 2017 | demolished_date = | destruction_date = | building_type = Office | antenna_spire = | roof = {{convert|732|ft|m|abbr=on}} | top_floor = | floor_count = 52 | elevator_count = | cost = | floor_area = {{convert|92,900|m2|sqft|abbr=on}} | architect = Pickard Chilton | structural_engineer = Magnusson Klemencic Associates | main_contractor = [[Clark Construction]]; [[Lendlease]] | developer = [[Hines Interests Limited Partnership]] | owner = [[Ivanhoé Cambridge]]; Hines Interests; The Levy Organization; River Point Holdings | operator = | references = }}

'''River Point''', previously known as '''200 North Riverside Plaza''', is a 52-story 730 ft. (213 m) tall skyscraper in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], located at 444 West Lake Street. The 52-story building has {{convert|1|e6sqft|m2}} of floor space. It sits on air rights above active railroad tracks and as well the subway portion of the CTA Blue Line, which affected the angle of some support columns, which in turn produced the parabolic arch in the base of the building.

==Groundbreaking and main tenants== It was developed by Hines and designed by Pickard Chilton. The building was designed before the [[Great Recession]] of the early 21st century, and constructed after it.<ref name=Kamin2016>{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-river-point-kamin-met-1218-20161216-story.html |title=Curvy new skyscraper reflects river and rising design ambition |last=Kamin |first=Blair |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=December 16, 2017 |access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref> A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the tower in January 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rejournals.com/2013/01/15/mayor-emanuel-and-dignitaries-break-ground-on-river-point-office-tower/|title=Mayor Emanuel and dignitaries break ground on River Point office tower|publisher=REJournals|access-date=January 17, 2013|archive-date=November 26, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126130212/http://www.rejournals.com/2013/01/15/mayor-emanuel-and-dignitaries-break-ground-on-river-point-office-tower/|url-status=dead}}</ref> The building has Gold [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] certification.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://chicagoriverpoint.com/community-1#sustainability |title=River Point: Sustainability at 444 W. Lake Street |work=River Point |access-date=March 6, 2021}}</ref> The US Green Building Council indicates that the River Point building achieved Platinum LEEDS status as of January 30, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usgbc.org/projects/river-point |title=River Point 444 W Lake Street Chicago |work= U.S. Green Building Council |access-date=March 6, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/top-10-leed-certified-buildings-in-illinois-in-2019/ |title=Top 10 LEED-Certified Buildings in Illinois in 2019 |work=Commercial Property Executive |access-date=March 6, 2021 |date=August 10, 2020 |first=Anca |last=Gagiuc }}</ref>

The building became the headquarters of [[Morton Salt]] in December 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20150617/CRED03/150619830/morton-salt-moving-headquarters-to-river-point-office-development-in-downtown-chicago-s-west-loop |title=Morton Salt shaking up Chicago HQ |last=Ori |first=Ryan |newspaper=Crain’s Chicago Business |date=June 17, 2015 |access-date=March 6, 2021}}</ref> The anchor tenant is the law firm [[McDermott Will & Emery]], which occupies {{convert|225000|sqft|abbr=on}} of office space,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mwe.com/en/press-room/2013/07/mcdermott-executes-lease-to-become-anchor-tenant__ |title=McDermott Executes Lease to Become Anchor Tenant in New River Point Office Tower |work=[[McDermott Will & Emery]]|location=Chicago |date=July 10, 2013 |access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref> and it moved in to River Point in March 2017.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mwe.com/en/press-room/2017/03/mcdermotts-chicago-office-relocates-to-river-point |title=McDermott's Chicago Office Relocates to River Point: Firm Becomes Anchor Tenant in the West Loop's New Iconic Office Tower Located at 444 West Lake Street |date=March 27, 2017 |work=McDermott Will & Emery |access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref> [[Mead Johnson]] also relocated its headquarters from suburban [[Glenview, Illinois|Glenview]] to the building.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-emanuel-mead-johnson-global-headquarters-biz-20150303-story.html |title=Mead Johnson moving headquarters to Chicago riverfront tower |date=March 3, 2015 |last=Elejalde-Ruiz |first=Alexia |access-date=September 7, 2017 |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}</ref>

==Location== [[File:River Point from the Chicago River in July 2024.jpg|alt=River Point from the Chicago River in July 2024|left|upright|thumb|River Point from the [[Chicago River]] in July 2024]] The land on which this tower stands is known as River Point because it lies at the point where the North and South branches of the [[Chicago River]] form.

It is between Canal Street and the Chicago River, and was the tallest building in Chicago west of the Chicago River until it was overtaken by [[150 North Riverside]], completed a few months later in 2017, which is also built on [[Air rights#Railroads and air rights|air rights]] over the railroad tracks leading into Union Station to the south of both properties.

As required by the city of Chicago, the building also includes a {{convert|1.5|acre|adj=on}} public park<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hines.com/properties/river-point-chicago|title=River Point – Properties – Hines|publisher=}}</ref> and a landscaped [[Chicago riverwalk|riverwalk]] that is open to the public. To accommodate the land required for the public park and river walk it is built over a set of active railroad tracks.

==Reception== The building's design reflects its location well, where the two branches of the Chicago River begin, with critic Blair Kamin noting "its exuberant curves" and how it reflects the river, like the "great 1983 high-rise" building across the river from it, [[333 Wacker Drive]].<ref name=Kamin2016 /> It was the first new downtown skyscraper to open in seven years, due to the Great Recession. Kamin points out how the structure of this building is affected by the once-surface railroad tracks and the [[Blue Line (CTA)|CTA Blue Line]] subway tunnel running beneath it, requiring a tilt in some support columns. That tilt results in "the building's most distinctive feature: the tall parabolic arch at its base".<ref name=Kamin2016 /> Kamin concludes that the site demanded, and this building delivered "a memorable statement".<ref name=Kamin2016 />

==See also== *[[List of tallest buildings in Chicago]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{commons category}} *[http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=68558 Skyscraperpage] *[http://www.hines.com/properties/river-point-chicago Hines] *[http://www.chicagoriverpoint.com/ Chicago River Point]

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