The Windy City, Chi-Town, Chicago, we've enjoyed meeting the city's many personalities while putting the R1T to work around town.
Our first Midwest spaces location opened in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, just two hours' drive from our manufacturing plant. Since the opening, we've hauled stone slabs with the city's community gardeners, prepped gear to climb the ore walls at Steelworkers Park and pumped up bike tires for a lakeshore ride with a local cycling club — adventures that made us feel right at home.
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On the ground with Chicago's urban gardeners.
Tending hundreds of gardens across the city, the Chicago Gardeners Association tends hundreds of gardens across the city. It's a labor of love focused on sustaining the beautiful green spaces within Chicago's neighborhoods. This year, the group is celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Dr. Shemuel Israel has been an active participant in Chicago's community gardening scene since the 1990s. The food grown in his gardens is as local as it gets. Last year alone, he tracked over 7,000 lbs of food grown for the community across 19 of the gardens he tends to.
The R1T was enlisted to pick up hardscaping material from a nearby architectural yard. The stones, left over from another job, loaded snuggly into the truck-bed and headed to one of the many gardens established across the West Side of Chicago.
Reinventing urban ruins for adventure.
Thriving communities are always reinventing themselves. That's what we saw at Steelworkers Park, a former steel manufacturing site in the South Chicago community. We spent an afternoon with a family of climbers scaling the 30-foot ore walls still standing where ships used to unload raw material for the blast furnace. The 16-acre park reimagines industrial infrastructure as open-access community space, making for a unique neighborhood adventure.
Chasing the sunrise.
We joined the local Rapha cycling club on their weekly sunrise ride along the lakeshore with the city as our backdrop. We met at Montrose Harbor to prep bikes on the back of the R1T and share pre-ride snacks before the 7am take-off that led us past liveaboards in marinas, sandy beaches and northern views of the Chicago skyline.
The cyclists put the R1T to work as a bike hauler, using the Rivian Cargo Crossbars, inflating tires using Rivian’s built-in air compressor system and securing bikes to the truck using the steel core Gear Guard cable.
We're opening spaces and meeting communities across North America. Our upcoming Rivian spaces locations include Brooklyn, Austin, Laguna Beach and Yosemite. Visit us.
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