CHICAGO | Economic & Business Development

[LouisVanDerWright]

The O'Hare superstation is ideally placed to serve both the CBD and main tourisn hubs. What exactly would it change to encourage offices to move back East? The critical mass of business services has migrated West. That's what is what has moved the offices, not proximity to OHare.

Most of the old class C and B office that housed critical, but lower rent, business services has been anhilated in the East Loop. Office is not moving back there because the highest and best use of that area was permenantly altered by Millennium Park. That's the "push" and the pull is proximity to Metra Stations which isn't going to change either. So no, the Loop is not the next Loop. The center of gravity of the CBD will continue to drift West as the handful of times your Employees will need to go straight from work to the airport is irelevant compared to the conveniece of their daily commutes. People don't build offices because travelers from out of town can get to their office from the airport 10 minutes quicker, they locate for their employees.