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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop
can you imagine walking out the front entrance of your building, and looking at that everyday? It's pretty brutal, as it currently stands.......obviously there is potential going forward for redevelopment of the various parcels, but at present it is just bleak......
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Of course Hovey put the main entrance on Cityfront Plaza. He's a suburban developer and he's got a ready-made car turnaround. It's also likely that anybody coming/going on foot is headed to Michigan, so if the main entrance was on Grand, you're forcing people to walk up an ugly, crumbling flight of stairs.
Sometimes developers get it wrong - Fifield at K2, for example. Lots of people coming and going from lower level Kinzie service entrance while the big grand Halsted entrance with car turnaround is a ghost town. To be honest, I'm guessing the busiest entrance is probably the bridge to the Jewel - no hills or steps to climb and the most direct access to shopping, transit, and workplaces. They probably added that after people expressed concerns.