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Earlier this week, developers CIM Group and Golub & Company revealed their plans for the redevelopment of the Tribune Tower in Chicago, long anticipated since the site's purchase for $240 million in 2016. The over $1 billion project from architects Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture and Solomon Cordwell Buenz proposes to convert the existing neo-Gothic Tribune Tower into residential uses, and add a 96-storey, supertall tower to the east.
If built as proposed, the new 1,422-foot (433.4-metre) tower would overtake the Trump International Hotel & Tower as the city's second-tallest building, rising roughly 96 metres shy of the title-holding Willis Tower's spire. The tower would include 439 rental apartments, 125 condominium units, and 200 hotel rooms, and would be served by 430 parking spaces.
This new tower would rise from the footprint of an existing exposed below-grade parking garage to the east of the Tribune Tower at the intersection of Illinois Street and Cityfront Plaza Drive. To the west, the existing Tribune Tower will be converted to house 163 condominium units, with the start of work expected in the coming months.
Lead tenant the Chicago Tribune will vacate their namesake building by June. The new tower is expected to begin construction in 2019, while the condominium conversion at the existing Tribune Tower is slated for 2020 completion.
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