A few years ago — when Donald Trump was just a developer and “slacking” in the workplace was a fireable offense — the office building at 350 N. Orleans St. afforded a great perch from which to ponder the future of Chicago.
Looking from west-facing windows of what used to be the Chicago Sun-Times’ offices was like being on a cliff’s edge of downtown skyscrapers, peering onto an urban valley. The hunkered-down buildings of Fulton Market, Chicago’s old meat and produce district, were in immediate view, including a formidable cold-storage warehouse that later became the Chicago base for Google.
