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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Hard groan. Especially the surface parking (the design sucks too but not out of place in a hospital district). Ogden is Route 66, can't they grab some cheesy sign from some forlorn downstate motel and put it here? I would hate that less.
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I believe the site plan eventually moves the parking into a structured garage in a later phase. There might be a few standing spaces that remain out front, though.
I take this back, it does look like the Hampton Inn will have permanent surface parking in front and back. Ugh.
I did check the PD and learned some cool stuff though (there is one MASSIVE PD that controls the entire IMD as well as the entire Tri-Taylor neighborhood).
-Marquette's redevelopment of the
Medical Center Apartments has been going on for some time - they are currently recladding the building. But it looks like they are trying to develop the vacant parts of this parcel so it is less of a "tower in a park". They requested permission to move FAR around in the IMD to build an
11-story building and a
21-story building in the greenspace areas on the block - NE corner of Harrison and Damen. The city approved this administratively, but they denied a request to reduce the parking requirements (Marquette wanted a 100% reduction, but DPD can only grant reductions up to 50% so Marquette would need to go to the alderman for a formal zoning change).
-Chicago Lighthouse at Roosevelt/Damen is looking to build a 9-story residential building where their parking is. This would be an assisted residential facility for blind persons. But it would be a huge improvement over the current suburban-style building (visible at left).