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Originally Posted by Toasty Joe
If they're serious about getting people downtown again, city leadership should prioritize removing/capping infrastructure between the Loop and two of our cities greatest assets: the lake and West Loop (one of the hottest neighborhoods in NA right now with no signs of stopping). If this building helps move that agenda forward, that'd be a success despite its blandness as a structure. Commuters aren't going to save downtown, Chicagoans are.
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Agreed. The city should already be pushing to build a street level Kennedy cap park that encompasses multiple blocks and removes some of the mid-block highway ramps that are dangerous for pedestrians (and frankly, were designed when there was a fraction of the foot traffic).
I know it's somewhat wishful thinking given that we can't even get traffic lights installed north of Fulton Market, but I think it would become a sort of Millennium Park west just by virtue of its location, even without the Gehry or Plensa accoutrement.
Can we get some of that infrastructure bill money?