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Originally Posted by sukwoo

http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles...-Unity-Temple/

"Oak Park's next big luxury high-rise apartment building could be constructed on the site of the U.S. Bank branch drive-thru and a parking lot at 835 Lake St. – less than a half-block away from Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple at 875 Lake St."

Supposedly 28 stories, which will be the tallest in Oak Park by a significant margin.

Eric Davis Flag Facebook Verified

Posted: November 8th, 2018 8:28 AM

If this is indeed going forward, important caveat, NOW can we have a civic
conversation about how it's in the village's economic interest to buy the
developer a world-class architect, to create another Building Worth Coming
to See, instead of just buying them a parking garage? It's actually much
cheaper and both sides win. We missed the last opportunity to add a "dot" to
the visitors' guide, with the D97 HQ and its recent additions, and Albion is
meh - can this town that makes so much with archi-tourism finally start
investing to grow that unique asset? At some point if we keep adding dots,
tourists will start to say they need to stay overnight to see it all. That would
be huge for our restaurants and too-few hotels.

My old neighbor - knows his sh--t