The Park District continues its massive rebuilding of the shoreline, replacing the old stone slab seawall with a [hopefully] more stable structure of reinforced concrete. As each set of barricades is removed each spring, its new look is gradually taking shape, and overall, it’s, um, about as bleak and sterile as you might have suspected.
Compare it to Promontory Point, where they’re still duking it out over retaining the original rock embankment, which, even though it was manmade in the first place [most of the lakefront is, after all, fabricated: it’s landfill that was created to accommodate Lake Shore Drive], might not have looked as if it could have been a completely natural condition, but sure had a lot more texture.
There is, however, a mildly silver [think of it as brushed stainless] lining to the drabness of the overall appearance: with completion of the portion surrounding Montrose Harbor, the city’s best view of the skyline — inaccessible the last few years while this section was under construction — has been restored, as another Yo’er recently pointed out.
