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Re: (rshsdepot) Union Station - Chicago, IL
I've been pissed since they removed all the art deco neon ticket windows
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>From: I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com
>Sent: Jan 10, 2006 3:16 PM
>To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>Subject: (rshsdepot) Union Station - Chicago, IL
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>From Crain's Chicago Business.
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>Bernie Wagenblast
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>Jones Lang LaSalle wins bidding to redevelop Union Station
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>By: Alby Gallun
>A joint venture led by Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. has won the bidding to
>redevelop part of Union Station into a hotel, condominiums, office and retail
>space. Jones Lang LaSalle and a company headed by two former executives at the
>Chicago-based real estate firm plan to redevelop about 500,000 square feet of
>vacant former railroad offices in the West Loop building and build an 18-story
>tower on top of it. The project would cost about $250 million.
>Amtrak, which owns the building at Clinton, Canal, Jackson and Adams streets,
> has agreed to enter into exclusive development negotiations with the Jones
>Lang LaSalle joint venture. An Amtrak spokesman declined to say when the
>agreement expires or identify other parties that participated in the bidding.
>Completed in 1925, Union Station was supposed to include a high-rise under
>the vision of its original designer, famed architect Daniel Burnham. Mr.
>Burnham’s successor firm, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, completed the
>building’s design after Mr. Burnham’s death in 1912. Jones Lang LaSalle is teaming
>up on the project with Youssefi-Scott Development Co., a development firm
>founded by Hossein Youssefi, a former Jones Lang LaSalle executive, and Stuart
>Scott, the firm’s former chairman and CEO.
>“Our goal is to perpetuate Burnham’s historic vision for Union Station and
>at the same time create a state-of-the-art, mixed-use facility that includes
>office space built for the 21st century,” Mr. Youssefi said in a statement
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