The Chicago Housing Authority and its partners marked the end of their decades-long effort to transform the land where the Henry Horner public housing complex once towered on the West Side.

The CHA, city officials, developers Brinshore Development and The Michaels Organization, among others, held a ribbon cutting Wednesday for the apartment building Westhaven Park Station. It’s the seventh and final phase of the Henry Horner Homes redevelopment, down the street from the United Center.

The 12-story building, which is already fully leased, was designed as a gateway to the city, according to the developers. It’s also the end of work that was agreed to under a consent decree in 1995, when residents of the Henry Horner complex sued the CHA over building conditions. The decree stipulated that

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