Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief, Railway Age Magazine; September 26, 2017
Amtrak’s $22 million project to restore and improve historic Chicago Union Station’s Great Hall is under way. The year-long project will result in a public space painted in its original colors, and made brighter by a restored and protected skylight with improved lighting.
Architect Goettsch Partners (GP) and contractor Berglund Construction designed the project, which Amtrak has self-funded. Amtrak says it has been structured to minimize disruption to the flow of people through the station, the fourth-busiest in Amtrak’s national network (after Penn Station New York, Union Station Washington D.C., and 30th Street Station Philadelphia). The construction team “devised a creative solution to maintain access to the Great Hall by using a suspended working deck and swing stages, in lieu of much scaffolding, to allow customers to move freely below,” Amtrak notes.
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