Joffrey Tower (Chicago, Illinois)

USA / Illinois / Chicago / Chicago, Illinois / East Randolph Street, 8
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The Joffrey Tower is a skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States with a height of 409 ft (125 m) and 31 floors. It was originally named the Modern Momentum Building (nicknamed MoMo). It is located on the site of the Masonic Temple, which was dismantled in 1939 and replaced by a two-story retail building afterwards. The Joffrey Tower was constructed from 2005 to 2008 at a cost of $86,000,000.

The building is the permanent home of the Joffrey Ballet, who occupies 45,000 sq ft (4,200 sq m) of space on the 3rd and 4th floors. The floors include the Joffrey administrative offices, seven state-of-the-art rehearsal studios, and a black-box theatre. Floors 9-31 house 174 residential condominiums. The four foundation floors are 14ft (4.3 m) high. The four-storey cutout above the foundation and green roof is capped by "legs" with only elevators and stairwells. The building's main largest rehearsal space is named the Arpino Studio in honour of Gerald Arpino.

Residents of the building are zoned to South Loop Elementary School for K-8 and Philips Academy High School.
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Coordinates:   41°53'5"N   87°37'38"W
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