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Old Posted Mar 4, 2009, 5:22 PM
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Originally Posted by chicubs111 View Post
man this sucks...We cant seem to win now!...tower is 60% occupied and these damn banks wont loan nothing...i mean it really is just impossible for any substantial project to do anything when the banks are not budging
and hines is an established and proven developer; they aren't some fly-by-night operation whom no one will take a risk on, they're a known quantity to the finance world. the fact that they can't even get money for a 60% pre-leased tower really does spell some bad news for commerical office development in chicago. perhaps 20-story fifield crap-boxes are the wave of the future.
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