Plans for a 400-room, 35-story hotel in Chicago must be redrawn after it was determined that the hotel’s design could damage existing city infrastructure.
Bally’s is building a massive $1.7 billion hotel and casino in Chicago, but the plans for the 505,000-square-foot hotel as part of the project have to be scrapped after it was determined that building the hotel could cause damage during construction, according to Block Club Chicago. The issue apparently is the hotel’s caissons being driven into the ground potentially damaging existing water pipes that belong to city.
The hotel was originally planned for the north end of a 30-acre site at the site of the old Chicago Tribune printing plant along the Chicago River, but the designers will have to rethink the hotel’s location on the site, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Bally’s submitted plans for a modified 100-room hotel on the south side of the site, but has yet to redesign the larger hotel tower, which it is contractually obligated to build. The entire project, in addition to the casino and hotels, also includes a 65,000-square-foot convention center, and a 3,000-seat theater.
Greg Zimmerman is senior contributing editor for FacilitiesNet.com and Building Operating Management magazine.
