Former fire station 104, at 1401 S. Michigan, is now home to the Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, and Bar Louie just opened a restaurant at Dearborn Station, in Printers Row. Residents are even more excited about a new Jewel Food Store underway at Roosevelt and Wabash. A Dominick's at Roosevelt and Canal already serves the neighborhood, but the new Jewel, in the heart of the South Loop, will be more convenient for many, especially for residents like Chittenden, who doesn't own a car. I guess now we have enough of both. The new Jewel will be set back from Roosevelt, on the south end of the site, closer to 13th Street.
Lush landscaping is planned, especially along Roosevelt.
The surest sign that the South Loop has reached critical mass might not be the addition of another major grocery store so much as the neighborhood's reaction to it. Now I'm just happy.