Poem of the day: Shangri-La Shattered

Over at the Beachwood Reporter, poet-in-residence J.J. Tindall pens an ode to the 26-story concrete skeleton of the would-be Waterview Tower at 121 W Wacker Dr in the Loop.

Look: tatters. Tattered
concrete coat upon
steel-rod sticks.

Leave it shattered,
the shuttered Shangri La Hotel,
ersatz Shamabala

starting at six hundred
grand. It matters.
Leave it: husk

Read the full poem at the Beachwood Reporter.

In mid-June, Crain’s Chicago Business reported that CB Richard Ellis had been hired to try to sell the unfinished building, and yesterday, Tribune reporter Greg Burns caught up with CB Richard Ellis VP Peter Greene, who says the abandoned site is generating “a lot” of interest.

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