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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
Has this spot ever been considered:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8423679,-87.6675909,578m/data=!3m1!1e3
Pros:
No next door residents to complain
Short walk to Orange Line Station (that can be spruced up), and on a busy bus line (Ashland)
In summer, water taxi can come here
Excellent access to Stevenson via Damen + 29th.
Easy to run a shuttle to McCormick (via Stevenson, or Cermak + Archer, or Cermak + Ashland)
Cons:
kind of an industrial wasteland... but it worked for Boston? |
Northing in that satellite view is available as a possible location. The dirt patch is now Cougle Foods who cashed out of Fulton Market and just relocated (and those residents across Bubbly Creek did very loudly complain about it being an industrial use). The old Sun-Times printing plant is now a huge data center with major infrastructure put in to serve it and south of there is the very active South Water Market, relocated in the early 2000's.
Personally, I want a downtown periphery site to maximize revenue, force a more urban form and make it as accessible as possible to the entire city's workforce. Casino design can be done quite well, for example take a look at Morpheus in Macau's City of Dreams complex
https://www.uniqhotels.com/morpheus-hotel
https://youtu.be/Gpvru2PblNg