^^^ Looks like you beat me to it with the rendings, but I'd like to add that the Chestnut and State site is reserved for a future highrise. They were originally talking about doing dorms in the bottom that would have an entrance on one side of the building and Condos on top that would have an entrance on the other side. I would not be surprised to see it revised to dorms + apartments as Loyola continues to have housing shortages. Anyhow, that site could see up to a 50 floor building depending on what they end up doing with it.
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^ Seriously?
Parking lots everywhere and a historic building has to get knocked down for this?
Total bullshit
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Only one of the buildings that is coming down is worth saving and even it is barely usable as is. The corner building is pretty much falling down right now and was horribly mutilated in a series of renovations in the 60's and 70's.
In addition to that it's not like Loyola can just put this building two blocks away on a parking lot. It's a college campus, they can't just have random buildings all over the place, they need to be close together in order to form any semblance of a campus.
I lobbied hard when they were planning that building (and I was helping with the new campus plans) to be saved, but in the end they made a pretty convincing argument that it really wasn't worth it.
Finally, the building they are replacing it with is actually going to be pretty sweet and probably a more interesting design. It's one of the few SCB designs lately that don't fit the "glass box deluxe" mold:
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Overall it's an improvement for the area IMO and probably the best location for this new building. Also, it's good for the city because Loyola's goal is to make its business competitive with the likes of U of C and Northwestern. It has already made huge strides in the quality of its students and the size of its schools and the business school has never had a real home of it's own (being bounced around between McGuire Hall, Corboy Center, and The Claire, some courses used to even be held in Lewis Towers). Hopefully this will help them push into the top tier of business schools globally from the upper second tier where they are now. They'll probably never be ranked higher than U of C or NW, but if they can get anywhere close it will be a huge gain for the city.