The West Loop and South Loop have very different retail environments and are likely to grow their retail bases in very different ways. Which approach is better? Click on the video above and hear two of the neighborhoods’ top developers on the subject to help make your own judgements.

David Chase, CEO of The Thrush Companies and developer of 740 Fulton, represents the West Loop. Keith Giles, a principal in Kargil Development, which is building X/O Condominiums, represents the South Loop. Yo’s truly is the calming, evenhanded moderator.

Earlier installments of our developer smackdown, South Loop vs West Loop: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V.

Comments ( 4 )

  • Barry, this is the same exact video as Part V

  • Auto-oriented businesses….

    BARF!!!!!

  • Yes, it is all the consumers fault, not the continued shoving of big-box, chinese peddling retailers on the consumers. As well, we should all be good soldiers, and suck-it up and do all of our traveling on the travesty that is the “always near defunct CTA”. Interesting that the RTA never has the same level of problems that the CTA lives daily under…

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