First Look at Sterling Bay's Plan for the Harpo Studios Campus

Renderings from SkyscraperPage forums user spyguy

By: Aaron Dunlap | June 1, 2015 | Chicago.Curbed.com

Oprah may have packed her bags and left Chicago, but the production studio she built in the West Loop was left behind—sitting vacant since closing for good this past December. The block-sized property was purchased a year ago for $32 million by Sterling Bay, a local developer that has been making a name for itself by sprucing up run-down properties, transforming them into high-end offices and flipping them for hefty profits. While Sterling Bay hasn't formally revealed their plans for the former Harpo Studios campus, imagery has recently been leakedonto building-watcher forums showing conceptual renderings for a whole new development on that land. From the looks of the design, Sterling Bay might be planning to take a step away from their modus operandi of rehabbing existing structures and demolish the largest building on the lot and completely replace it. Read More...