Required state support and state agency offices leased in the building to help make it financially viable. (As did the World Trade Center buildings destroyed on 9/11).
Inside “the Loop” in Chicago is even less inviting for anyone who does not have to work there than the Wall Street area of Manhattan.
The Palmer House, located inside the Loop was once a premier hotel in Chicago, but the best Hotels in Chicago are not located inside the Loop today.
I have stayed at that hotel. It was nice, when I was there, but more historic than super-special.
It was a good buy, but my room was quite small.
I stayed at the Palmer House around 1996. I remember marveling that the living room in my hotel room was the size of my kids’ karate dojo.