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Originally Posted by Via Chicago

I think the problem though (and I agree with Tom) is that when you're trying to mimic multiple facades, its easy to see through that for what it is: something dishonest and fake. Chicago is great because it is a collection of designs from different periods and each reflects a certain history from its time. You enter one shop or restaurant and its a completely different experience from the one next door to it; not just in appearance but even the little things like how hard you have to pull on the door to enter, the feel of the hardware, the scent of the room, the way the floor creaks. When you slap up a bland massive development like this, those experiences are lost. Everything becomes uniform, and uniform is boring and bland. Im much more in favor of thoughtfully done small projects than these "all or nothing" blocklong demolitions.

And yea, if the design were better it might be easier to swallow, but its not.

Very well said. My thoughts exactly.

Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop

Apologies if discussed already (haven't been following as the ballpark itself doesn't interest me - although adjacent new developments certainly do), but is that Addison Park on Clark proposal completely dead?

The last 20-30 posts in this thread have been discussing this very project.