Amid 17-story hotel plan, debate over Fulton Market's future may only be beginning

Future hotel & entertainment complex site
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By: Micah Maidenberg | February 19, 2014 | ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com

Trader Don Wilson faces an uphill battle winning approval for his Fulton Market hotel project,a harbinger of complicated debates about development in the sizzling neighborhood. A venture of Mr. Wilson's Chicago-based DRW Holdings LLC wants to build a 17-story hotel with up to 200 rooms, plus a three-story, 51,274-square-foot entertainment complex, on a parcel bound by Fulton Street on the south, Wayman Street on the north and Green and Peoria streets on the east and west, according to draft plans obtained by Crain's.  Read More...