A 75-STOREY BUILDING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 13 (Supplement)

A 75-STOREY BUILDING.

CHICAGO'S £9,000,000 VENTURE SEVENTY FEET HIGHER THAN WOOLWORTH TOWER. A 75-storey building to cost £9,000,000 and to contain a, virtual city within itself, will be erected in the'immediate future above the Illinois Central Railroad tracks at Chicago. The location overlooks the Chicago River just east of Michigan Avenue, between Randolph Street and an extension of Wackel Drive, 'formerly known as South Water Street.

The skyscraper will stand 845 feet above street level, seventy feet higher than the Wooiworth Building iii New •York City and second in-height only to the Eiffel Tower in Paris. . The building willbc. the centre of the ftpparel industry in Chicago. Two convention halls three storeys high will be on the ground floor, as well as shops, a restaurant and other business establishments.. Floors from the fifth to the twenty-third will bo devoted to the apparel mart. The twenty-fourth to the forty-sixth floors will be devoted to office space. The next twenty-four floors will house 1020 hotel rooms and the. top-floors .will'be used by three dubs, al! associated with the apparel industry. Not only will the building be-the tallest occupied structure' in the world, but it also will be the largest in amount of floor space. It will have rentable spnee of 4,0;>0.000 square feet. The' site n{ the skyscraper consists of (ho air riffhts ebovn fhe terminal nfl the Illinois Ce'nt.raf : Railroad. Ifc includes two square blocks of pv'npprty. The strufturc will be- the largest air right* development ever undertaken, it is said. ■ ' :