Salesforce Tower Chicago (Wolf Point)

The last tower at Wolf Point finished the job a 14-year plan started. Salesforce Tower Chicago rises 835 feet over the point where the Chicago River splits, a 57-story office building by Pelli Clarke & Partners that caps one of downtown Chicago’s longest-running redevelopment efforts. It topped out and opened in 2023, and its 1.2 million square feet are essentially full.

Project Scope

The tower carries a stepped profile, a series of gentle setbacks that taper the form as it climbs and keep an 835-foot slab from reading as a wall on the riverfront. Hines developed it as the tallest and final piece of a three-tower scheme on a long-underused site partly held by the Kennedy family.

Roughly 1.2 million square feet of office space sit about 97% leased, anchored by Salesforce and the law firm Kirkland & Ellis. The ground plane matters as much as the tower: the Wolf Point plan reconnected a marooned parcel to the river walk and the street grid, the part of the project the public actually touches.

Why It Matters

Finishing a marquee office tower in this market is its own statement. While office demand stayed soft nationally, a slim, well-placed riverfront building leased up near full, a reminder that location and design still pull tenants when generic space sits empty. Our read on the office and institutional pipeline tracks the same split.

It also closes the book on Wolf Point, turning a 14-year master plan into a completed riverfront block. For Pelli Clarke, it’s a late entry in a long catalog of supertall and near-supertall towers. For Chicago, it’s proof the river edge can still draw the kind of build that defines a skyline.

Project Team & Details