WP.com: CHICAGO -- In this city where the skyscraper was born, it is being reborn
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Luxury condominium towers and office buildings that climb 600 feet and more are sprouting up all over downtown. Along the Chicago River, the Trump International Hotel and Tower is inching its way up to a planned 92 stories.
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"I remember at least two (planning and development) staff members saying `Can't you make it taller? We really would like it taller,'" Chicago architect David Haymes says about discussions with the city for a planned condominium tower.
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
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Tower of Babel
I would never try to compare Chicago RE to South Florida, but there are allot of tall crains in the South Loop sky. The other day, I counted 7! Per the WP story, one such high rise will not be rolling untill 2009! I think that will be too little too late.
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let them continue to increase the inventory in the face of slowing demand. it's good for me. i know a lot of tradesmen and hope they have been saving for a rainy day.
a storm is a brewin.
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