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Old Posted Mar 8, 2019, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by IronWright View Post
River North's biggest issue besides the podiums and the Mc'Donald's, Rain Forest Cafe, BP, Hard-Rock, Walgreens, Portillo's, Ohio House etc. etc. suburban super blocks is there is little height/depth/density, especially west of State. Way too many surface lots, underutilized sites, low-rise housing and single story structures. The east/west corridors are wide open, more skyscrapers need to fill in these blocks to grow the core west and north. There's is a definite significant drop off in scale.
Spectacular example of the comments I mentioned