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Developer Announces Plans For Chicago's Tallest Timber Tower Since Before Great Chicago Fire

Sterling Bay plans to build a nine-story structure next year in Lincoln Park.

Developers said the structure will have considerably fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a similar building made of concrete and steel.
Developers said the structure will have considerably fewer greenhouse gas emissions than a similar building made of concrete and steel. (CBS)

By CBS Chicago Staff:

CHICAGO (CBS) — A local developer is going retro – very retro – with a new building project in Lincoln Park.

Sterling Bay said next year, it plans to construct a nine-story timber building at 2100 N. Southport Ave., at Dickens Avenue, on the western edge of the Lincoln Park neighborhood.

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