The rubble-strewn Chicago lot where North America's tallest residential building was to have been built is turning into an international money pit.
Four years after construction stopped, leaving only a big foundation dug to support the planned 150-story Chicago Spire, an Irish government agency that subsequently bought the soured debt as part of the country's bank bailout still holds the loan on its books, according to people familiar with the property.
Now, Ireland's National Asset Management Agency, which took on the
debt from the defunct Anglo Irish Bank Corp., is running up a big tab
paying for property expenses that will be nearly $3 million by the end
of this year. A Cook County judge in March approved the latest $1.2
million requested by a receiver, which will go for such expenses as
insurance, back taxes and even the operations of a bathroom on a nearby
bridge.
Wall Street Journal
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