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Central Station (Chicago neighborhood)
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Near South Side, Chicago
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community area
Community areas of Chicago
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(neighborhood) in Chicago
Chicago
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, Illinois
Illinois
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, USA
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. Once 69 acres (279,233.3 m²), and later 72 acres (291,373.9 m²), the City of Chicago planned development is now 80 acres (323,748.8 m²). It encompasses the former rail yards and air space rights
Air rights
Air rights are a type of development right in real estate, referring to the empty space above a property. Generally speaking, owning or renting land or a building gives one the right to use and develop the air rights....
east of Indiana Avenue between Roosevelt Road
Roosevelt Road
Roosevelt Road is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs. It is 1200 South in the city's street numbering system, but only one mile south of Madison Street...
and 18th Street. It also now encompasses the strip between Michigan and Indiana Avenues.
Background
Formerly, Central Station was an intercity passenger terminalPassenger terminal
Passenger terminal may refer to:*A train station terminus at the end of a railway line*Airport terminal, a building at an airport where passengers board and disembark from aircraft...
in downtown Chicago
Chicago
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, located at the southern end of Grant Park
Grant Park (Chicago)
Grant Park, with between the downtown Chicago Loop and Lake Michigan, offers many different attractions in its large open space. The park is generally flat. It is also crossed by large boulevards and even a bed of sunken railroad tracks...
at Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue
Michigan Avenue (Chicago)
Michigan Avenue is a major north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east south of the Chicago River and at 132 East north of the river from 12628 south to 950 north in the Chicago street address system...
, 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. 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
Grant Park (Chicago)
Grant Park, with between the downtown Chicago Loop and Lake Michigan, offers many different attractions in its large open space. The park is generally flat. It is also crossed by large boulevards and even a bed of sunken railroad tracks...
, across Lake Shore Drive
Lake Shore Drive
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from Chicago
Chicago
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's Museum Campus. It includes One Museum Park
One Museum Park
One Museum Park is a skyscraper in Chicago, USA. It was designed by Chicago-based architecture firm Pappageorge Haymes, Ltd. and is located in the Near South Side community area.-Overview:...
and One Museum Park West
One Museum Park West
One Museum Park West is the companion structure to One Museum Park in the Near South Side community area in Chicago, Illinois, USA...
as well as Museum Park Place, Museum Park Club, Museum Park Towers I-IV, Museum Park Lofts I-II, 1400 Museum Park and luxury townhomes. Other developments in Central Station include Lakeside Tower at 1600 South Indiana. In 2006, the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance
Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance
The Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance is a non-profit resident organization in the South Loop community of Chicago, Illinois. The PDNA, founded in 2006, has grown to provide support and representation to thousands of residents living in and around the Prairie Avenue Historic District,...
, a non-profit organization was formed to provide representation for thousands of South Loop residents, which includes Central Station and Museum Park.
Among the earliest residents of the newly redeveloped Central Station was Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley
Richard M. Daley
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