Originally Posted by marothisu
I mean, there already are pockets that are as dense as Manhattan already..
* The area of South Loop between Roosevelt, 14th, Wabash, and the Metra tracks near LSD is now 131,932 ppsm as of the 2020 Census.
* Streeterville between Michigan, LSD, Ohio, and the River is about 95,000 ppsm as of the 2020 Census. Perhaps next Census it'll be over 100,000 ppsm
* For Gold Coast, the Census Tract between Division, State, Dearborn, and Chicago Ave is over 105K ppsm as of the 2020 census. The tract next to that between Chicago, Division, Wells, and Dearborn is about 76K ppsm too and there's room for growth there too in the next decade.
The tract between Chicago Ave, the river, State, and Dearborn was nearly 84K ppsm as of the 2020 Census. This includes One Chicago which just opened up a few months ago. So if we say the 812 (or so) units would be 90% occupied at 1.5 people per unit, then that alone would push the density over 100K ppsm for that.
* Near Printers Row in South Loop between Harrison, Wells, Roosevelt, and Clark is over 72,000 ppsm. This actually includes the land next to Roosevelt Collection on the river, so it's possible that it's over 80,000 or 90,000 ppsm already even with Dearborn Station nearby. This isn't even including the newly opened Imprint building there and very close by is Riverline, where there's multiple buildings now and probably not all counted in the 2020 Census and especially one with over 400 units U/C right now.
This will probably be over 100K ppsm pretty soon.
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