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Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller
There's an 1,100 footer under construction right now and a 1,400 very likely to be built. Chicago is doing just fine in the skyscraper department.
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I was mainly responding to the shared sentiment on here and the YIMBY comments that we're going to get another Block 37... and urban politician had a good response about inertia pre-COVID that touches on my concern. But my point stands... I'd rather have more organic growth in the surrounding megadevelopments (street grid & subdivide plots) and more focused attention and public resources go towards nailing premier sites like this, especially with the CTA station(s) involved. It just seems like we currently have a lot of balls in the air and I'm afraid none of them are going to live up to their true potential.
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Originally Posted by west-town-brad
I dont know the exact stats, but the residential population of the loop has grown from something like zero to 20,000 people in the past 10 years or so.
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yeah, a great start but definitely more fundamental work to do. I feel like currently there is a very specific type of person who would live in the Loop (transient, white-collar, somewhat anti-social), and a lot of that growth has been from that demographic. If there's any hope of it being an actual neighborhood one day, a major step is even losing the local stigma as a lame place to live for people who don't know any better.