Central Station is a residential development project in the South Loop section of

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. Originally planned as a development, it was later expanded to ,McClendon, Dennis, ''Near South Side'', p. 563, Eds. Grossman, James R., Keating, Ann Durkin, and Reiff, Janice L., 2004 ''The Encyclopedia of Chicago''. The University of Chicago Press, and is now . Being planned by the city government, it encompasses the former rail yards and air space rights east of Michigan Avenue between

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and 18th Street.

Background

One Museum Park and One Museum Park West

Formerly,

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was an

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passenger terminal in downtown

, located at the southern end of Grant Park at

and Michigan Avenue, 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

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prior to the planned development led by Gerald W. Fogelson, founder and president of 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

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. 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, across

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from

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. It includes One Museum Park and One Museum Park West 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

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, a non-profit organization was formed to provide representation for thousands of South Loop residents, which includes Central Station and Museum Park. In 2017,

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began construction near Roosevelt Road and Michigan Avenue. Among the earliest residents of the newly redeveloped Central Station was the now-former

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Notes

External links

Official City of Chicago Near South Side Community Map

Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance Website
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