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Newcastle to Present Lower-Profile Apartment Tower Plan
A year after Ald. Brian Hopkins shot down its original proposal, Newcastle is poised to unveil a revised plan for an apartment tower at 1130 N. State St. in Gold Coast, currently occupied by a closed Barnes & Noble. Crain’s Chicago Business reported that the developer will present the new design at a virtual community meeting on Oct. 22.
In September 2019, Hopkins nixed the developer’s plan for a 42-story, 465-foot high-rise with 388 apartments. Residents in Chicago’s 2nd Ward, which Hopkins represents, objected to the project’s size and design, Crain’s reported.
“It’s excessively tall for that lot, it’s not an attractive structure and it does not fit in with the neighborhood,” Hopkins told the Chicago Tribune last year.
Now, Newcastle wants to build a 299-unit tower that would rise 29 stories and 336 feet, Hopkins said in an e-mail to constituents this week.
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