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Originally Posted by BVictor1

I just received this email. This is why we have to show our numbers and support this project.

Renaissant Development is proposing an 80-story building, 850 feet
tall, at 830 South Michigan. A public meeting will be held on this
Thursday night at Jones HS, beginning at 6.30. We encourage all South
Loop Neighbors to attend and make their concerns known, particularly
to Alderman Haithcock.

This new building would straddle the alley, preserving only the front
40 feet of the old YWCA building fronting Michigan. It would contain
376 condos and 34,000 square feet of retail space, plus parking for
both.

South Loop Neighbors and the Department of Planning and Development
worked for four years on the Near South Community Plan, adopted in
2004 with the alderman's support, to guide development in our
neighborhood. Both that plan and the draft guidelines for the
Michigan Avenue landmark district would only allow a building 425
feet tall--HALF the height this developer proposes!

Our alderman is very responsive to objections from the community, but
she must hear them loud and clear at this meeting! I encourage you
to ask why our two-year-old plan is being ignored so completely in
discussions of this development.

Again we have NIMBY's posing as preservationists.

There is NOTHING in the ass end of this building worth saving except a bunch of ratty sleeping chambers.