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The Chicago Spire was a supertall skyscraper project in Chicago, Illinois that failed financially after beginning construction. On 4 November 2014, Spire developer Garrett Kelleher signed over the property location at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive to the project's biggest creditor after not being able to make required payments. Related Midwest President Curt Bailey said they would not build the Spire when they received control over the property.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Subscription Center )〕 When originally proposed as the Fordham Spire in July 2005, the design had 116 stories. Chicago developer Christopher T. Carley of the Fordham Company was spearheading the project. The building was planned to include a hotel and condominiums and also featured a tall broadcast antenna mast. On 16 March 2006, the initial design of the building passed unanimously during that day's meeting of the Chicago Plan Commission. The court ruling of 4 November 2014 brings the extended litigation of the nine-year-old project to a relative conclusion concerning its original plan of architectural development.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Subscription Center )〕 ==Development== Construction stopped in 2008, with its foundation work completed, after several years of financing challenges from the global recession of the late 2000s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=China's skyscraper boom buoys global industry )〕 Anglo Irish Bank Corp. filed a US$77 million foreclosure lawsuit against The Spire's Irish developer Garrett Kelleher, claiming that loans made to Kelleher’s development company had been in default for a year. The bank was expected to take possession of the site where the Spire was to have been built. The building was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and was being developed by St Patrick's Athletic owner Garrett Kelleher of Shelbourne Development Group, Inc.〔〔 At its planned height of and with 150 floors, it would have become the second tallest building in the entire world, surpassed only by the Burj Khalifa. It would have also surpassed the CN Tower to become the tallest freestanding structure and the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Originally proposed by Christopher T. Carley of the Fordham Company in 2005, the project was supported by many Chicagoans and city officials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chicago Spire : , Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States )〕 After several months of development in 2005, Carley failed to acquire necessary financing, and the project was taken over by Garrett Kelleher of the Shelbourne Development Group in 2006. Between 2006 and 2008, three revisions were made to the design,〔 and the renamed project gained city approval.〔 Following the start of the late-2000s recession, and its impact on the primary lender for the project, construction was suspended at the site.〔 Amid several unsuccessful attempts with labor union investment funds to bail out the project,〔 Shelbourne Development continued its attempt to secure additional financing and restart construction〔〔 and insisted that the project was not dead. By the end of 2010, legal actions by Anglo Irish Bank caused the courts to hand control of the site to a receiver, leaving the project (at the time) dead. As of May 2013, however, interest in the Chicago Spire site had risen, drawing in at least a half-dozen offers for the property. The developer was considering a bid to take back control of the property, reigniting hope that the skyscraper might actually be built. Under the involuntary bankruptcy ruling in October 2013, Shelbourne had until the end of March 2014 to get approval of a reorganization plan. In February 2014, Shelbourne sought court approval to proceed with an investment of up to $135 million from Atlas Apartment Holdings that would pay off existing bankruptcy claims and enable Shelbourne to proceed with the project, with a deadline of August 31, 2014 for having a court-approved reorganization plan. At a hearing on March 11, 2014, Shelbourne announced that it had reached agreement on a repayment plan with the project's creditors, including Related Midwest, which had bought up much of the project's debt. Assuming the project finds funding to satisfy that agreement, Atlas said that the building would be built and that Atlas would control the project, but that Kelleher would still be the developer, with the intention of building the same building planned prior to suspension of construction. However, on October 31, 2014, the developer failed to make a required payment to Related Midwest and Related filed suit to compel Shelbourne to turn over the deed to the property. On 4 November 2014, Spire developer Garrett Kelleher signed over the property location at 400 N. Lake Shore Drive to the biggest creditor after not being able to make payment for the property. Related Midwest President Curt Bailey said they would not build the Spire when they received control over the property.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Subscription Center )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chicago Spire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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