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Photo: Before and after the ping-pong social club moved in

Photo by Steven Dahlman

18-Mar-16 – Two views of the street level of a commercial tenant space at Marina City in the southeast corner of what is now Hotel Chicago. Above, the space on November 28, 2011, three years after a Crunch fitness center moved out. Below, the space on Thursday, now a SPiN ping pong-themed bar.

The stairs, railing, and ventilation are the same. There is still an eight-sided column just right of center frame. Everything else is different, of course, and not just the bar. A wall has gone up, dividing the old Crunch space into two new tenant spaces. And a new inner door was constructed, creating a vestibule.

Photo by Steven Dahlman

(Photos by Steven Dahlman. Click on images to view larger versions.)