For years, even as Trump Tower soared to its full 1362-foot height, this is what the adjacent
riverwalk looked like:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWup3FXQzaG4PoRpktgTIQHysYmWWNVHczdi2nPQpTkC-FLyOr9BCjocHa_hn9Y6y87IxjmsubnoZefeDW0EpFLWXVJEIExiQ1PC7pN1x5uVVgmbHFMrVMYBm0ws51qYjwfv7sjw/s400/trumpnoriverwalk.jpg)
Reading about all of Trump's battles with his lenders, and the reports of the imploding real estate market, it made you wonder if the money had dried up, and all
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRoA8OzgVdicRhSd5Daf9_9MJ2nQKtnbpEyEC0Z4ENzvPs9Dq-AwT4ZolWZt3_h21GPSv5r9Z4Cq0tNb-frqXArxPu7kAWrkfjG68pPV3IAgxMIaegtgN2Sg4RPT0NxP7OtYInhw/s320/trumpwok.jpg)
we'd be left with was the huge gravel pit filled with construction
paraphernalia that included what looked like a giant wooden wok.
It didn't help that last September
Crain's Chicago Business
reported that Trump was having trouble finding restaurants and businesses to lease the four-level
riverwalk's 83,000 square feet of retail space, and had hired a broker to pitch it for a price upwards of $130 million.
What looked like a radical value engineering on the some of the signage was also discomforting.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH1Mg2O9plW_03bS6NksNCJ-UwZZPTwzZLjn-HJwtT5JH80RbjhVInhuZkog0En4WKNR7PAp3egm3hD83hPgbnen71cqE_Cch6ZCmSNqHykZDrwXxLgoqNSB05mwpNObxT0dG-vA/s400/trumphotel.jpg)
Recently, however, the site has been abuzz with activity.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN8HPx5T_7rMFUdKWioHdJLkcoDZ48bTYo6wEm10IUdRd051a8dcG86gTzn8ZPimTzsWqezmL2Obi6BsLFQNm_saM2cRQKV9W3OHZYp-1CI9T6-QeDN3ct9-eOC6A3oej2ybYvVQ/s400/trumprivermid.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPnAV35f-Jal3xVrzXQqJLvKouZMYOerVY9GSghE_1xOJUQAouBHuH4fnJ94Ze64SkXyDI8-GNV9xLUvCyWyJotXagqlvW2WwAVVVObcDqwzp3Lq30eslxiW3wa_zL-xCvCkJtSg/s400/trumpriverwalkconstrucion.jpg)
The odds are looking better and better that we may finally get back the Wabash segment of the
riverwalk that has been closed since just before the old Sun-Times building was demolished in 2003. Maybe it will even look as good as in the renderings.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI_4z3eNxvBNsaupSk0Mf3bLi6Ix5kBzZWRvQoHGXKAgOunf10IuhSXnn8E2Re1qcDd2-uL88RsspFWLAJeEG8MTbeH68pHwq8AYL9wJgBeG5_4lwZki72gh7CwAhSPVSduC80iw/s400/trumpriverwalkwidejpg)
1 comment:
I find it funny that the river is blue in the renderings
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