This building was originally planned to be a supertall. NIMBY pushback and feedback from the city led to this being less than 900 ft.
How absurd.
The developer is the one who decided against there wasn't a Chicago market for a supertall—before it was even shown to anyone. And then took five full years trying to line up financing to build this many units.
The developer is the one who decided against there wasn't a Chicago market for a supertall—before it was even shown to anyone. And then took five full years trying to line up financing to build this many units.
The city placed a limit on how tall buildings could be along that stretch of the Michigan Avenue Historic District, you know this, you were at the landmarks meeting, I saw you there.
I’m Dennis McClendon of South Loop Neighbors. We’re the neighborhood association for the area including the south end of the Historic Michigan Boulevard district.
We’re very happy to see these guidelines finally adopted. We’re not very happy with 900-foot buildings.
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We reject the idea that the last couple of blocks of a historic district needs to act as some kind of transition to the city around it.
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What’s the danger from approving such tall buildings here? First, there’s the shadowing of Grant Park...
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What can possibly justify a height limit twice the size of the district’s tallest building?
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Preserve the scale of this landmark district; reject the 900-foot guideline.
This latest development is certainly consistent with a January 11th rumor that Helmut Jahn's supertall at 1000 S. Michigan was going to be cut from its proposed height of 1001 feet down to something in the mid 800-foot range due to concerns raised by Landmarks. The same rumor was confirmed later that day as an individual representing the globally-renowned architecture firm acknowledged that the design was going back to the drafting table and would ultimately emerge shorter.
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