Current Use
Today the complex houses the House of Blues concert hall and Sax Hotel, as well as an upscale bowling alley, a bank, and restaurants Bin 36, Smith and Wollensky, and Dick's Last Resort.
The House of Blues concert hall was built in the shell of the complex's long-disused movie theater; similarly, the hotel was built in what was once the Marina City office building. In order to accommodate Smith and Wollensky, the former skating rink was demolished and pedestrian and vehicular access to the residential towers and the raised common plaza were redesigned. In 2006, decorative lighting, visible for miles, was installed around the circular roofs of the mechanical sheds that top each tower; the towers had not contained any such lighting since the 1960s.
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