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About This File
This huge building covers 2 city blocks in the City of Chicago, and has an 8-lane section of the Congress Street Expressway running through it.
Suffice it to say that this is one of the most unique buildings in Chicago. It was built in the Great Depression of the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), who wanted to give jobs to unemployed Chicagoans. With many men on the job, they built a huge (3 million sq. ft.) building.
In the 1990s, the US Post Office decided that the old building was not efficient enough to process the volume of mail that comes into Chicago, so they built a new facility 1 block south, and in1996, the doors on this magnificent Art Deco building were closed permanently. For 10 years, it has remained empty, its huge size actually discouraging possible tenants.
This building could not easily be made into a growable, because of its huge size. Therefore, I have made it into a ploppable only.
Lot Stats
- Size - 6x14 tiles
- TE - Ground Highway through the middle of the lot
- Jobs - 1500 CS$$
- Landmark Effect - +45 over 256 tiles
- Plop Cost - $115,000
- Type - Ploppable CS
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