[BC] 2000 ft. Digital TV tower for Chicago

[Rich Wood]

------ At 11:23 AM 10/25/2005, Rob Atkinson wrote: -------

>Today's Chicago Tribune has a front page report of a plan to 
>construct a 2000 foot high freestanding structure downtown in the 
>Streeterville neighborhood that would consist of 3 legs braced at 
>different heights, and tapering into 3 spires at around the 1500 
>foot point.   A significant purpose is that it serve as a location 
>for digital TV antennas.    At this point, it is only a plan and 
>faces several hurdles which could cause it to vaporize.    It would 
>not be a office building but more like CN Tower, higher than that 
>but not as high as the TV tower in Fargo.

After 9/11 there was talk of a 2,000 ft. tower to be built on 
Governor's Island, just off Manhattan. I think the city had hoped to 
use the island for an amusement park and casinos if they could get 
state approval. You have to understand that the city and state are 
not friends and much of what the city does is governed by the state. 
Rent control, for instance, is a state regulation. Much of the state 
votes Republican. The city, Democrat. The state often punishes the 
city for that. Even the Republican Mayors are more like Democrats.

Since they're still fighting over what to build on Ground Zero any 
hope for a tower is years away.

Rich