He's an LA real estate agent on HGTV's "Selling LA" show.

according to SSC this is an actual proposal not just a vision, maybe it won't get built to 2000 feet but im under the impression some sort of massive tower could be put here.

Nope sorry you were duped but nothing will ever be built there. At least nothing resembling this project. Nothing will be done to the PO and no tall buildings will be built.

Why? The development would be good for the city I feel.

It's owned by a person that is notorious for selling land and not developing it.

But whoever buys it will most certainly develop something there right? Such a huge piece of land to go to waste.

Oh well, I hope Chi town pulls off another supertall or two here eventually, that would be amazing!

Hopefully someone can build something there eventually though, as the site has air rights to 2000'

(if I'm not mistaken)

Its not going to get built because it was never a real project. Just a notorious speculator trying to flip a property.

^SSC lists it as a serious project, but they're data isn't always correct.

It did say the project wouldn't go under way for 5 to 10 years, which means something could maybe happen. Isn't the city of Chicago still trying to approve this?

Sure, something "could" happen. Just like how pigs "could" fly if only they had wings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13FnuKo9b8Q


So somewhere down the road there's a possibility for this site to be redeveloped into skyscrapers somehow it seems.

I think the view from the northeast is best. It gives a better perspective of the scaling. The other views suggest that many other high-rises should be built south and west of this complex if built.

I know this project is a pipe dream, but having a tower looming over the Sears would be an amazing sight.

Chicago Tribune

Fire erupts on roof of old Post Office

:previous: looks like Davies is running into some more carrying costs...

I am of course a huge fan of Chicago and I sometimes open this thread to see whats going on but with the amount of posts in here (over 7,000!) its hard to keep up. So I don't know if anyone's posted this yet or not but I was hoping to ask for more information on this 120 story tower that seems to be making its way into Chicago's skyline in the future.

http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info...me-434x500.jpg
http://blog.chicagoarchitecture.info...daylight-time/

Looky here

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=192697

Vision Video for old post office redevelopment.
It looks like they've modified the tower designs:
http://vimeo.com/42700645

That looks awesome, I am surprised to see this move forward. When will we know whether it was approved ?

Approved? Come on seriously. This is little more than modern media puffery. It ain't going to happen ok.

6.2 million sq feet of entertainment space
4.1 million sq feet of hotel some 7500 rooms

3.8 million sq feet of residential

Those numbers are massive. In perspective when the WTC complex was destroyed if I recall that was in total some 12 million sq feet of space this is planned at 2 million larger than that if you believe it you are a fool.