{"id":31191,"date":"2018-06-26T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:31:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:31:18","slug":"union-station-renovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/union-station-renovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like Union Station Might Be Getting Some New Digs"},"content":{"rendered":"

After announcing plans for a massive renovation of Chicago’s main train hub early\u00a0last year<\/a>, updated renderings of Union Station’s potential redesign were released\u00a0yesterday to, uhm, mixed reactions.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Riverside Investment & Development<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While early designs for the $1 billion dollar redevelopment included swanky new buildings, a rooftop, and an upscale food hall, the most up-to-date images seem to have moved away from the original plan. Rather, new renderings from Riverside Investment & Development depict a shorter, 7-story building to top Union Station, said to house 404 apartment\u00a0units and upwards of 300 hotel rooms.<\/p>\n

And though developers insist that these future additions are more in line with the original\u00a0schemes from the station’s 1925 construction, some aren’t so convinced.<\/p>\n

Notably, Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/a> architecture columnist Blair Kamin wrote yesterday that, if the city were to move forward with these plans as they currently stand, Union Station would soon posses “all the grandeur of a Holiday Inn.”<\/p>\n

Ouch.<\/p>\n

Of course, nothing is set in stone quite yet. Work on the renovation isn’t set to being until 2019 and plans still await approval from the city, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Riverside Investment & Development<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To learn more about the Union Station renovation, head here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To read the rest of\u00a0 Kamin’s absolute teardown of the new designs, head here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Featured Image Credit: Riverside Investment & Development\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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