Reminds me a little of the transition of our last neighborhood in NYC - Long Island City, Queens. Along the river was very industrial for decades upon decades. Full of warehouses and other industrial uses. A few condo towers were built around 20 years ago, but not long after..1 developer (TFC) came in (who was our landlord) and bought a bunch of land and built a handful of high rises first. Very dense but in a manageable way and actually very nice. We really loved living there. They also put a
super nice park on the riverfront there that is very popular (amazing views of Manhattan). They purchased more land not long ago on the other side of the area and have built or are building another 1100+ units right now with another handful of high rises. Complete and utter transformation of that area from industrial that didn't look that much different than Goose Island and that whole industrial area into some really nice mixed use area.
The entire waterfront used to be like in
this picture to the right of the few high rises. They transformed it into looking like
this. And further south on the same road they have been
building a handful of high rises too.
What Onni is about to do for Halsted Point and now potentially 1000+ more units here kind of reminds me of the waterfront transformation of the above. Hopefully they can pull it off and build some really nice green spaces along the river next to these high rises.