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Old Posted Oct 4, 2016, 3:25 AM
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Originally Posted by streetline View Post
I am a bit worried about the seeming lack of retail though. Those big garden plazas by the riverfront seem like they deserve a cafe, a restaurant, a coffee shop, etc. And with 2/3 of the towers (now including the only one with frontage on a thru street) going all residential, they're foregoing opportunities for that kind of thing.
"The east tower will add 707 units of luxury rentals to Chicago’s downtown, as well as 198 parking spaces, 40,000 sf of amenity space, and 3,000 sf of ground floor retail."
- AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust

Hopefully it's a cafe or white table cloth restaurant and not a dry cleaner and nail salon...