On September 14, 2009
Loews Walks Away From Chicago Hotel
Loews Hotels decided to walk away from a $1 land deal in Chicago, saying that it wasn’t financially viable to create its agreed-upon, four-star, 384-room luxury hotel in downtown Chicago. The hotel itself would have cost around $175 million (I guess the total, with the land, would have been $175,000,001.) “Unfortunately, the lack of construction financing and the severe decline in hotel market dynamics have made it not viable to build a new luxury hotel,” a spokeswoman for Loews told Chicago Business. Despite the rather sound reasons that Loews gives, many are calling the ill-fated project part of the Block 37 Curse. The curse refers to several retailers and agencies (among them the Apple Computer Inc. and a health club chain)…
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