CHICAGO | Boom rundown - everything over 12 floors. v5

[SamInTheLoop]

Originally Posted by Chicago Shawn

Well, originally the area to be built as LSE was supposed to be twice as dense, I talking somewhere in the range of 9,500 residential units and 1.7 million square feet of office space. Its part of PD 70, which includes ALL of Illinois Center. I would have obtain a copy of the PD and take a good look at the numbers to refresh my memory. The currently approved plan for Lake Shore East calls for about 5,000 units with some office space alang Columbus in towers up to 75 stories which was traded for Aqua, which I believe was through admistrative adjustments. The LSE plan was approved with basic massing "place holders", generic boxes that displayed the hieght and bulk regultions for each building. If major changes where to take place, especially with the FAR transfers from the Aqua II site for the placement of the school, as the newspaper article mentioned a while back, that would more than likely require an amendment, especially since the LSE project falls within the privately owned section of the Lakefront Protection Zone (i.e. near the lake but west of LSD), any sizeable changes often have to face extra review and approvals.

Ah - now it's coming back to me......it would be awesome if we could somehow split the difference and get back to around 7,000-7,500 units.....I wonder what the NIMBIEs would demand in order to accept....or would they ever???