Loews Hotel Tower, Contemporary skyscraper in Streeterville, Chicago, United States.
The Loews Hotel Tower at 455 North Park Drive is a 54-story skyscraper rising 569 feet (173.4 m) in Chicago. It contains 400 hotel rooms and 398 rental apartments, along with ballrooms, bars, restaurants and parking. The building sits on an L-shaped twelve-story podium and was the tallest building constructed in the city in 2015.
Designed by Chicago firm Solomon Cordwell Buenz and developed by the DRW Trading Group, the tower was completed in 2015 at a construction cost of about $200 million. That year it was the tallest building finished in Chicago. Its 398 rental apartments were later sold for $240.4 million.
The building sits along the Chicago lakefront, in a neighborhood used by tourists, convention visitors, and city residents alike. The third-floor terraces face Lake Michigan and serve as a gathering spot for guests staying at the hotel.
The main entrance is on North Park Drive, where a motor court handles vehicle access at ground level. The building is easy to reach on foot from the Magnificent Mile and nearby public transit stops.
The tower stands on an L-shaped twelve-storey podium, not a U-shaped footprint. Its 398 rental apartments were sold for a total of $240.4 million, and the whole construction cost about $200 million.
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