Building permit issued for fitness and meeting rooms

West tower to get fitness room

21-Jun-09 – All of the reviews needed to obtain a building permit for planned alterations to the laundry rooms on the 20th floors of each tower have been approved. The City of Chicago Department of Buildings approved the last one, a refrigeration review, on June 16. According to the department’s web site, a building permit was issued that same day.

Unit owners who attended the June 18 meeting of the Marina Towers Condominium Association board of directors say they were told the fitness room will be located in the west residential tower. It was not made public until last week which tower would get the fitness room.

According to residential property manager David Gantt, the west tower was chosen for the fitness room because there was was more support for it from west tower residents. He also noted at the June 18 meeting that the property management office is closer to the east tower, where the MTCA meeting room will be constructed.

On January 15, MTCA unanimously approved a controversial $435,000 plan to build a fitness room on the 20th floor of one residential tower and a new MTCA meeting room in the other tower.

Residents of the west tower at Marina City have been notified that their laundry room will close on June 22 for “a month or so.” According to a June 19 memo from property manager Gantt, west tower residents will also not be allowed access to the storage room on the 20th floor between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.