The Chicago Plan Commission on Jan. 18 approved a $700-million development that, as presented, would include the city’s sixth-tallest building.
Slated to replace a parking lot across from Holy Name Cathedral at the corner of State Street and Chicago Avenue, JDL Development’s mixed-use project calls for a pair of towers—one 49 stories, the other 76 stories—over a shared podium. After some post-unveiling changes, the taller, now-thinner tower is planned to top out at 1,011 ft, which, when built, would make it the eighth Chicago skyscraper to exceed the 984-ft “supertall” classification.