Central Station (Chicago neighborhood)

Currently, Central Station refers to a neighborhood within the Near South Side, Chicago community area (neighborhood) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Once 69 acres, and later 72 acres,McClendon, Dennis, "Near South Side", p. 563, Eds. Grossman, James R., Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L., 2004 "The Encyclopedia of Chicago". The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-31015-9] the City of Chicago planned development is now 80 acres. [Handley, John, "Chicago Tribune" (Real Estate Section), "Looking South", July 9, 2006] It encompasses the former rail yards and air space rights east of Indiana Avenue between Roosevelt Road and 18th Street. It also now encompasses the strip between Michigan and Indiana Avenues.

Background

Formerly, Central Station was an intercity passenger terminal in downtown Chicago, located at the southern end of Grant Park at Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue, which is the northwest corner of the new neighborhood. The neighborhood is evolving according to a City of Chicago "planned development".

Planned Development

Central station had been a warehouse district prior to the planned development led by Gerald W. Fogelson, Founder and President Fogelson Companies and Co-chairman and CEO of the Central Station Development Corporation. Redevelopment began in 1990. ] In 1994, Central Station started to take its residential shape with the construction of luxury townhomes.cite web |publisher= Museum Park Sales Center |url=http://www.museumparkplace.com/developer.html |title= Four Decades of Commitment to Your Future |accessdate=2007-01-15 ] More recently, this lakefront neighborhood has experienced rapid construction of more luxury townhomes, high-rise condominiums, apartments and retail stores. Fogelson proposed a plan to overhaul the warehouse district with a modern residential district and has successfully acquired the property and subcontracted residential, and mixed use development.

Museum Park at Central Station is one of the largest of the subcontracted developments. It is a complex of multiple residential towers within the Central Station development at the southern edge of Grant Park, across Lake Shore Drive from Chicago's Museum Campus. It includes One Museum Park and One Museum Park West as well as Museum Park Place, Museum Park Club, Museum Park Towers I-IV, Museum Park Lofts I-II, and luxury townhomes. Other developments in Central Station include Lakeside Tower at 1600 South Indiana.

Among the earliest residents of the newly redeveloped Central Station was Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

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External links

* [http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/Community_Areas_NEAR_SOUTH_SIDE.pdf Official City of Chicago Near South Side Community Map]