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A big chance to make up for the mouse-eared box.(Amusement park)(Brief Article)

Crain's Chicago Business, July, 2001

People who care about the character of the neighborhood around North Michigan Avenue had to be chagrined when Walt Disney Co.'s enormous indoor theme park, DisneyQuest, opened in John Buck Co.'s North Bridge complex. Now that Disney has pulled the plug on this struggling business, neighbors have to wonder what's worse: putting up with a monstrous, mouse-eared box that dwarfs the surrounding streetscape, or watching that box sit empty for months, even years, as the developer struggles to find another tenant.

The good news is that Buck now has the chance to bring this project back down to a human scale. The knock against DisneyQuest and the backside of Buck's North Bridge project-from a design point of view, at least-has always been that the size and scope are...

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