According to multiple reports, it appears McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food chain, is finally making its way to downtown Chicago. Crain’s Chicago initially broke the story late last week and to the surprise of some, the Oak Brook-based company will soon be making plans to move its corporate campus to the Harpo Studios site in the West Loop, where developer Sterling Bay plans to develop a brand new campus.
Famed Chicago native Oprah Winfrey originally sold the Harpo Studios building to Sterling Bay back in 2014 for $32 million, which aside from being the location where the Oprah Winfrey and numerous other TV productions were filmed, also helped transform the West Loop neighborhood into what it is today.
Prior to the announcement, McDonald’s flirted
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Stunning New Hotel-Office Tower Possibly Coming to 590 W. Madison in West Loop
If you think Chicago's recent hotel and development boom might have reached its peak, don't tell that to developer Joseph Mizrachi, who is planning a pretty spectacular high-rise project in the West Loop that will stretch 41 stories high and house both a hotel and 600,000 square feet of office space. The tower, which is being designed by Goettsch Partners and will replace a parking lot at 590 W. Madison, has a pretty sleek design that somewhat coincides with other new hotel developments around Chicago, most notably the Loews Hotel over in Chicago's Streeterville neighborhood.
If approved, Crain's Chicago Business reports construction for the new hotel-office tower could be completed in less two years, which seems to be a pretty lofty goal given its
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