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Originally Posted by Randomguy34
This was mentioned in the General Developments thread, but it seems to be the lot across the street from the Coyne College site. This project is going to be more than 500,000 sqft so hopefully it becomes a high rise. This site is in a PMD and the city is planning to repeal the PMD east of Ogden Ave and revert them to their prior zoning category by then end of November. The area east will then be annexed into downtown, and the site can then be upzoned to DS or DX. In a couple of months, Sterling Bay will have to upzone in order to build something this big.
Info: https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/e...-use-plan.html |
Yes and no, there will still be a ban on residential uses north of Lake. The city has a higher focus on office use for this area which can co-exist a little better with light manufacturing and meatpacking.
Ace Hotel got approved north of Lake thanks to Sterling Bay, and Hoxton Hotel is a go at Fulton/Halsted, so I guess hotels are acceptable but residential is not.
I wish they would do something to address the at-grade rail line going into Union Station. Probably easiest just to put it up on an embankment like the UP-W line.