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Originally Posted by thegoatman
10 years ago the West Loop was still meatpacking warehouses...
What do you guys think the West Loop will look like 10 years from now with all the development and population boom? Second downtown? Even more jampacked?
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That depends on what the city does. Right now the infrastructure will eventually cap the growth. Transit access is limited for it to be a "downtown", you would need several new bus routes, a Metra stop and maybe a new CTA rail line/Circle Line.
At the same time, traffic flow sucks. The city needs to put in a bunch of stoplights, prune back the street parking for turn lanes, etc. And new developments are now required to do limited parking, which is a good thing generally but creates a problem if people can't get to Fulton in car OR transit.
If the city doesn't do all of this, then it cannot really grow into a 2nd downtown.