Thompson Center revamp could boost La Salle Street corridor – Chicago Sun-Times*

"La Salle is full of distinguished buildings, with the street seeming to cut through cliffs of limestone and terra cotta that stop at the Chicago Board of Trade Building at Jackson Boulevard. It’s a classic urban vista. But it’s facing capitalism’s version of climate change. Business anchors such as BMO Harris and Bank of America are moving elsewhere downtown, drawn to high-rise views and naming rights on buildings. Financial exchanges don’t draw physical crowds of traders anymore."
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The Paraclete
4 years ago

Perhaps the available space can be used for all the temporary morgues we desperately need! Remember the big Covid hospital at McCormick? They had one patient for GSW.

Lions Choice
4 years ago

Despite Boondoggle Booster Blather — Derelict Thompson Center Won’t Fix Vacancy Crater On La Salle Street –

debtsor
4 years ago

Ha! Central Loop is dead. Ain’t coming back. What industries do urban planners believe are going to pay top dollar to occupy 36,000,000 sq ft of older Class B office buildings on boring LaSalle St? CBOT/MERC/CBOE naively surrendered the hustle and bustle of the floor traders decades ago, the legal industry is moving remote, and some aspects of the federal court system have moved remote permanently; tech pays to be in the west loop; banking no longer needs to be concentrated near the Federal Reserve on LaSalle St…Insurance has moved remote, I know quite a few people in insurance, and… Read more »

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