Students housing in the S. Loop, road construction

02/23/2010 2:25 PM

By Micah Maidenberg
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Upper Wacker Driver, on the right. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Two upcoming meetings in the South Loop:

South Loop Neighbors is hosting a discussion Wednesday, Feb. 24 about new student residences in the neighborhood. Invited guests include Lesley Slavitt, vice president of governmental relations and outreach at Roosevelt University, and Keith Giles, a principal at Kargil Development.
Roosevelt is building a 32-story "vertical campus" that will replace the Herman Crown Center at 421-425 S. Wabash. The structure will host seven floors of classrooms, six floors of student services and 615 beds for the school's freshmen and sophomores, as well as space for student organizations and activities and street-level retail.
Kargil Development, which has built and rehabbed number of residential structures in the South Loop, wants to build a $100 million, 21-story tower with 420 two-bedroom suites and 20 single rooms for dorm resident assistants at 1136-1140 S. Wabash, land currently owned by the city. Ald. Robert Fioretti told Chicago Journal last fall that he did not support selling the land to Kargil until the firm had a binding agreement from a college or university to send its students there.
South Loop Neighbors' meeting starts at 7 p.m. at Grace Place, 637 S. Dearborn.

Fioretti will be hosting a meeting March 2, meanwhile, about three major infrastructure projects slated to start this April: the Congress Parkway remake; reconstruction of Wacker Drive; and repaving the Eisenhower Expressway. Representatives from the city and state departments of transportation will be on hand to discuss the projects.
The road construction meeting starts at 6 p.m. March 2 at Robert Morris University, 401 S. State, in Room 803.



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