Alternative assets advisory firm MVision Private Equity Advisers is exiting Hong Kong and will instead serve APAC from its Sydney and San Francisco offices.
Known as “The 78” for its potential to become the city’s 78th official community area, the site’s 62 vacant acres have seen other grand plans surface and fail repeatedly over the years and many in the community say they want the casino proposal to meet the same fate.
A clout-heavy group of casino developers on Thursday pitched South Loop residents on their plan to build a brand new “neighborhood from the ground up” that they say will create a new “epicenter of Chicago tourism.”