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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
amen. waiting 10 years to see this eyesore redeveloped is not acceptable to those of us who live and work in this neighborhood every day.
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Certainly all of us would like to this project completed, if not just to bring these past few years to a close. However, I can't help but feel that this site is pretty unique. Theres not many more like it and I'd like to see something worthy of its location.
I'd guess a 60 story office tower with the 17/18 floors already built would be about 800 ft. That might give a nice counterpoint to 300 N LaSalle and be enough to step out of the roof and get some air. However, I too don't really see it becoming an office tower. I worry that a significantly shorter tower will create a plateau with United and Leo. If its shorter than that , it crams in LaSalle-Wacker.
I wonder how the original tower completed as rentals would fare. It seems like the share of Chicago's market that everyone consistently believes is under-built.