I care. And since this land was given away by the city for free and there is $1 billion in public dollars tied up in this project, we all have a right to care and voice our concerns. I'm old enough to recall Gilbert dangled building a Hudson's tower back in 2006-2007 for his suburban employees, in order to get the land for free from the city. Yet when he finally moved his employees to Detroit in 2010, it was into the Compuware Building, not a new tower on the free Hudson's site.
The repeatedly delayed and much hyped Hudson's groundbreaking was finally in December 2017. It is now December 2020 and we're at street level on the new parking garage. Some of you want to claim the real groundbreaking wasn't until sometime in 2018 or maybe even early 2019? Okay, fine.
One Chicago Square in Chicago echos the Hudson's site -- 76-story tower, 10-story podium, 50-story tower -- and broke ground in March 2019. They paid over $110 million for the land, Gilbert paid $0. They have no public incentives, Gilbert has about $1 billion.
One Chicago Square is currently over 50 stories in the air. I'm so tired of the misinformation. This pace is not "normal" and we've been hearing the same recycled excuses going on 14 years.
https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/...till-climbing/
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