[brian_b]

I got the impression that the Millennium Park Plaza people were expecting a more hostile crowd than what showed up.

It was actually unclear whether there is new parking or not; I should have asked. This building ties in with the Doral, and the underground drawings showed a small number of parking places underneath the new building. Were they always there? Regardless, when they emphasized the pedestrian aspects of the project it seemed like the only question anybody had was how they were going to build it without disrupting the pedestrian traffic at the intersection (which is fairly important since people have to use that corner to get to Millennium Park from Randolph and North Michigan).