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Originally Posted by Toasty Joe
No one said this had to remain solely office. A hotel at the confluence of the river would bear a lot of prestige, not to mention the views. They could've done a two-tower scheme, essentially stacking the residential WPE and WPW. Not to mention the corporations who could've planted an actual trophy tower in a postcard location with guaranteed visibility in a city with the 8th largest GDP in the world. They could've done more.
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could have done a lot of things, but they
did the things that they did because that was the forumla to the greatest ROI according to their calculations.
would it have been nice if hines had been more ambitious at this particular site? of course!
but that's just not how chicago office towers get developed, except for those two times a half century ago.