Did anyone catch this week's Crain's? It had a great article in a commercial real estate section about failed projects in the city (Loop circulator, Helmut Jahn's plans for Navy Pier, etc.). Nice group of pix.

Anyway, one of the failed projects mentioned was that plan to add to neoclassical towers atop Union Station. Before reading Crain's, I thought the idea was still alive. Does anyone know anything about its status. I remember the plans were pretty cool, including extending the atrium in the station's main waiting room.

I have no idea, but that sounds absolutely awesome, provided the towers were done well. A real neoclassical tower, like the Tribune did neogothic, would be amazing, I think. If it was just concrete and balconies with some fake columns slapped on, it wouldn't really be worth it.

I haven't heard anything as detailed as stating a building-type... but, I do believe that some developments involving Union Station were mentioned in the Central Area Plan, no?

Just today in the weekly commercial real estate column in the Tribune's business section, there was a mention that Amtrak, which owns Union Station, is switching developers for their plans at the station over dissatisfaction with the lack of progress on this project over the last 2 years or so. I would guess this means that any existing development proposals are now toast.

so what happened to the crane, again. im lost!