Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot unveiled a plan Monday to revive the LaSalle Street corridor, a key downtown office district that suffered the double whammy of COVID-19 and the loss of several large firms to new towers rising farther west along Wacker Drive and in Fulton Market.
The mayor said it’s time to take advantage of the Loop apartment boom and fill the corridor’s empty offices with new renters, including hundreds of low- and moderate-income workers typically shut out of downtown living.
“We must restore this area to its full potential,” said the mayor. “But do so with an eye toward equity.”
