Cross posted from Chicago Economy thread on account of awesomeness and relevance:
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The school today announced it hired John Ronan Architects of Chicago and Shepley Bulfinch of Boston as architects for the 100,000-square-foot building.
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Can't wait to see how awesome of a building Ronan comes up with for an architecturally significant organization like IIT.
Do we even know where this new building will be built yet? Is it on IIT's campus? If so, which vacant parcel will it gobble up. We are slowing starting to chip away at the vacant parcels between Hyde Park and South Loop and hopefully IIT will do it's part and gobble up some of their parking lots for this. If not, then I'll be extremely curious to see where they end up placing it. It could be awesome to have this center built in River North or the West Loop (or even on Goose Island near the national center recently announced).