The renderings are lame because they aren't very good. The finished product of the low-rise retail has been pretty decent, a tower with similar quality will be like one of the Logan TOD designs.
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^ You mean that there are parts of the IMD that aren’t lame?
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It's actually a extremely busy and hustling during the day. I have no idea why there isn't more retail there aside from bad city planning. There are three residential towers (twin towers at Taylor and Ashland and one at Gateway) planned for the district and four hotels (three in CCH, one at Gateway). If all that gets built, it will haven a pretty dense 24 hour population as well. Really the area just needs to be developed more humanely into an urban neighborhood. It's got historic stock all around it, good transit access, between the West Loop and Pilsen, and a huge daytime population.