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Originally Posted by Swicago Swi Sox
Interesting/Sad article on CAB today regarding the ugly clock plaza near 435 N Park. Some of the older renderings of this project showed the park totally renovated, but more recent images show it remaining the same. At one of the SOAR meetings the developers intimated that they hoped to renovate the plaza, but that it was more complicated. CAB has more back story:
http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info...r-ogden-plaza/
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This whole parking garage thing seems like a poorly structured deal. The Park District has little incentive to maintain a desolate plaza in the middle of nowhere, and when there's little incentive, it just doesn't get done. If some private company wanted to lease the parking, the Park District should have insisted that they also assume responsibility for the plaza maintenance.
People seem to think that above ground and underground are two separate and unlinked worlds, but water that hits the surface will eventually percolate down to anything beneath, and in a poorly-maintained environment, this is just asking for trouble.