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Although “a city within a city” is a common description of Marina City, you could say the same about Magellan Development’s Lakeshore East complex on the New East Side. As this video opens, you hear a Chicago Architecture Foundation tour guide suggest that Lakeshore East, with its park, retail spaces, and plans for a new school and grocery store, are right in line with the philosophy of Marina City architect Bertrand Goldberg, who believed in the importance of amenity-rich, mixed-use urban communities at a time when homebuyers were flocking to the suburbs.
In this video shot from the deck of an Architecture River Cruise boat, you can see the northern half of Lakeshore East, including the DeStefano & Partners-designed Chandler and the Jeanne Gang-designed Aqua.
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Every time I visit friends in Lakeshore East I think it would be great to live there. The park is awesome and its access to Millenium Park is great as well. A couple of things bug me about it though including its poor transit access (#60 bus is it as far as I know), poor access to the North Loop (walking up to River East for a movie is an adventure in navigating lower/upper/middle this and that), and probably worst of all is the lack of access to the lake. I mean, the lake is RIGHT THERE and you need to basically walk through an underground homeless shelter to access it.
That could be improved as more amenities come to the Loop (movie theaters, retail, etc) which are bound to come with the Block 37 project.
I agree with your concerns about the lakefront, though