The highly discussed Chicago Spire site, which lay dormant for over a decade, is finally beginning to transform into a vibrant city landmark. Situated at the intersection of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan, the site is now home to 400 Lake Shore Drive, a significant architectural renovation spearheaded by Related Midwest and designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM).

Despite the Chicago Spire falling through and being redeveloped into a new project, it currently remains on Apple Maps as a historic site. Its detail page states how the notorious building “would have stood 2,000 feet high with 150 floors and been the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.”

Initially intended to host America’s tallest skyscraper, The B1M reported, the Spire site was instead left as a vaca

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