First residential building opens on old Children's Memorial site

First on the Lincoln Common site to open is the southern apartment tower, which like its neighbor has 269 apartments in its 20 stories. The buildings' height and siting give many of the apartments and their top-floor indoor and outdoor amenity spaces dazzling views across a low-rise swath of the city to a panorama of downtown skyline. From above the first several floors, east views include Lake Michigan. On the west, "you can see until the city runs out," McCaffery said. The architects at SOM designed the apartment buildings with expanses of glass that "put all of the city right in front of you," said Malcolm Craig, project manager for McCaffery Interests.

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