Halsted Avenue.ġ908: As demand increases in the Chicago area, horse-drawn carriages deliver products around the city.ġ928: Growth speeds along and Vienna trades horses for a sleek motorized fleet.ġ950: Vienna products expand to Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Miami as Vienna mania sweeps the nation.ġ957: Hot dog stands throughout Chicagoland feature Vienna beef franks “dragged through the garden,” a phrase describing the many toppings on a Chicago-style hot dog.ġ962: Vienna products move into supermarkets in Chicago and soon to Southern California, bringing the beef hot dog into Americans’ homes.ġ984: Vienna purchases Chicago Pickle company and adds condiments to its collection of products.ġ985: Vienna adds some spice to their product line with chili and creates soups that will later become the Bistro Soup Company.ġ992: David Berg joins the Vienna family of products.Ģ006: Vienna Beef opens the Hot Dog Hall of Fame.Ģ009: Hot Dog University is opened to teach the basics of the business to potential hot dog stand owners. Vienna Beef was founded over 121 years ago and is still going strong today with a family of brands created for those who love that iconic summer snack.ġ893: Over 27 million people flock to the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago to witness the latest inventions, including the Vienna Beef hot dog, created by Austrian-Hungarian immigrants Emil Reichel and Sam Ladany.ġ895: Emil and Sam open their first store on Chicago’s Near West Side at 417 S. NAI Hiffman’s Chris Gary and Joe Bronson represented Vienna Beef.Nothing says summer like baseball games and hot dogs with all the fixings. Scott Duerkop and Dominic Carbonari of real estate services firm Jones Lang LaSalle represented Dayton Street in the lease. Dayton Street said it has renovated the building's interior warehouse and built out 8,000 square feet of office space. property, according to Cook County property records.

Walnut St., among others.Ī Dayton Street venture paid $2.8 million in August 2018 for the 2501 W.

The company has redeveloped properties at 15 W. While the City Council last summer opened the eastern end of that Kinzie Industrial Corridor-the portion that borders the now-trendy Fulton Market District-to new zoning uses, it renewed its commitment to keep most of the corridor as a planned manufacturing district.Ī spokesman for Vienna Beef couldn't be reached.ĭayton Street, led by managing principal Howard Wedren, has been one of the most active developers in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor. Vienna Beef, meanwhile, will bring its 127-year-old company and prominent Chicago food brand to a corridor running west of Ogden Avenue between Lake Street and Grand Avenue that is rife with industrial companies like it. It's one of several proposals along the North Branch and is just north of developer Sterling Bay's planned Lincoln Yards campus between Lincoln Park and Bucktown, two of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods.ĭrive Shack would lease the land from property owners Vienna Beef and Chicago-based Mark IV Realty. That North Side property could soon be home to an upscale driving range from New York-based Drive Shack, which submitted plans to the City Council in September to turn the 9.3-acre site into its first Chicago location. Vienna Beef moved its manufacturing plant away from there in 2013 to the Bridgeport neighborhood on the city's South Side but kept its headquarters and a warehouse along a rerouted portion of Elston Avenue at Damen and the river. Fulton St., a nearly 40,000-square-foot building in the Kinzie Industrial Corridor where it will move its main office and warehouse.

The premium beef classic made to our original 1893 recipe. Vienna Beef's nearly 50-year run on Chicago's North Side is coming to an end.Īmid a slew of new developments proposed along the North Branch of the Chicago River, the hot dog maker is set to move its headquarters early this year from its longtime home to a renovated industrial building on the Near West Side.Ĭhicago-based developer Dayton Street Partners said the meat company has signed a long-term lease for all of 2501 W. Vienna Beef Jumbo Beef FranksA 4 pack of these famous beef franks from Vienna Beef of Chicago.