By Greg Hinz, Crain’s Chicago Business; June 18, 2018
After more than a year of behind-the-scenes negotiations, developer John O’Donnell and a partner appear ready to get working on a huge redevelopment of Union Station and Amtrak-owned property nearby, a longtime priority for the passenger railroad and for City Hall.
O’Donnell’s Riverside Development & Investment is about to present plans for 330 hotel rooms and 404 residential units atop the historic rail depot, as well as an office tower on what now is a parking garage on the block bound by Clinton, Van Buren, Canal and a Chicago Transit Authority bus facility, according to a constituent newsletter emailed over the weekend by the local alderman, Brendan Reilly, 42nd.
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