Posted on 04/02/2022 3:21:34 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The Consumers Building, 220 S State St., (left), and the Century Building (right), 202 S. State St., would be demolished by the federal government as part of a security plan for the neighboring Dirksen Federal Building
The buildings’ demolition would create an economic and pedestrian dead zone on State Street. And it would be a shameful waste of some really good Chicago architecture.
So why would the U.S. General Services Administration now raise a hind leg to this legacy by wrecking the Century and Consumers buildings, two early 20th Century skyscrapers at 202 and 220 S. State Street?
The Berghoff Restaurant buildings, 17 W. Adams St., nearly touch the Dirksen’s north edge, but the GSA tells me it has no plans to come after those structures or others.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...
The BS is always deep in Chicago.
A safe buffer? For the drug dealers.
Next, the city will give the land away to get some revenue out of it. But to very special friends.
IMO, there would be more labor hours in the original proposal than in new buildings. And the way things are headed in Chiraq, good luck with financing in a dying downtown.
Perhaps destroy the Fed building instead?
They can wreck the whole Loop as far as I am concerned.
—”They can wreck the whole Loop as far as I am concerned”
They?
As matter of fact, “they” are wrecking downtown... near north...lincoln park... out Irving to the suburbs...
Anywhere that may have been nice is being trashed, every night and now in the daylight too!
From a pragmatic standpoint, there’s no reason to preserve these buildings just because they are old. In fact, that’s probably the best reason to demolish them.
That being said, the property should be redeveloped based on the needs and desires of the locals, not the Fed. Why does Fedzilla have this kind of power and authority over local development? I see nothing in the Constitution that allows this.
Exactly. If they don’t think their current location is safe, they should move, not trash the neighbors’ place. Their needs fall behind those of productive private citizens. Their jobs exist to serve us.
Would the beneficiaries be the city or the Feds?
Wild thought - could this be an alternate site for the Obama Library?
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