Present-day
Approximately 11 acres remain vacant between Harrison and Polk; the site currently serves as a de facto dog park in the South Loop. Just south of the site a single 17-story apartment building was constructed, the only construction of a planned development known as River City (designed by Bertrand Goldberg who also designed the landmark "Marina City" along the main branch of the Chicago River), was constructed on the former coach yard and approaches to the terminal. River City was meant to be a complex of three 68-story office and residential towers stretching along the Chicago River from Harrison to Roosevelt Road, but only the smaller apartment building was ever completed. Plans for an office tower, condominiums, or retail development on the Grand Central Station terminal site have all been proposed over the past several years, and all have been shelved.
The land on the corner of Harrison and Wells, the lot on which the station itself stood, remains vacant. In March 2008, CSX Transportation—the successor company to the B&O—sold the property to a Skokie, Illinois based capital group with the intent of redeveloping the site with mixed-use high-rise buildings.
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