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Originally Posted by Mojava
Have you ever been in front of the Peninsula in Chicago. There's always lots of cars waiting to be parked. Regarding parking, you also have to take into account ballroom functions, restaurants, spas, etc. There's lots of other reasons to go to hotels other then to stay overnight.
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Many of the cars in from of the Peninsula are limos and private cars. There are also many cabs. With it's proximity to the Sheraton and Embasy Suites Lakefront, I think that traffic will actually flow more smoothly. There's only so much room to station a cab and other vehicles on upper North Water and Park Drive (sloped street leading to the Sheraton from Illinois). With the addition of this hotel, those cars won't be idleing as long because there will be more customers to service.
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After reading the Sun Times article, I think the 1000 parking spots will be shared with the proposed 48 story rental building and it seems as if SOAR going to do their best to minimize the damage.
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I don't believe that 1,000 parking spaces were ever mentioned in the article, that was TUP's 2'cents
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After reading the Sun Times article, I think the 1000 parking spots will be shared with the proposed 48 story rental building and it seems as if SOAR going to do their best to minimize the damage.
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The design hasn't been released to the public, but it the design was shown to SOAR on September 4th. The tower will be 50-stories and about
574' tall. They are going in under existing zoning, so there's no need to go before the plan commission on the rental tower, it's as of right. The tower was nice, but the parking base sucked ass and totally overshadowed the design of the tower. SOAR was appalled. My theory, is that SOAR will ask the 2 developers to work together on an shared underground garage. And I'd agree with them.