$93 million, 12,000 decorative nail heads and 3 new buildings: Naperville's Water Street District by the numbers
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Along the southern shore of the DuPage River in downtown Naperville, the Water Street District offers a new vitality where a string of underused buildings used to stand. Paul Michna | Staff Photographer
The main building at the Water Street District in downtown Naperville -- a combination hotel and parking garage -- went up in roughly three months, built with prefabricated concrete pieces lowered into place by a giant crane.
But the project itself has taken much longer to come together.
A $93 million behemoth that's been called a "game-changer" for its work to transform an underused block into a vibrant extension of downtown, the hospitality district opens with the Friday, Nov. 18, launch of the Hotel Indigo Naperville Riverwalk.
Jeff Prosapio, executive vice president of development for Water Street developer Marquette Companies, has spent the past two years overseeing every detail of the construction, and boy are there plenty of them.
From the historical photos sourced from Naper Settlement to adorn hotel room walls to the decorative nail heads -- 12,000 of them -- implanted into the hallways for a rustic effect, the story of the details of the development is best told in numbers and in dates.
Check out a timeline of important moments in the creation of the Water Street District and a list of numbers hidden inside the new hotel, shops, restaurants, Riverwalk and parking garage.
$93 million: Total project cost
$18 million: City funding
376,000: Total square footage
12,000: Decorative nail heads
4,200: Square feet of banquet space
521: New parking spaces
500: Feet of Riverwalk path
460: Bottles in custom wine cabinet for Elements banquets
400: Construction jobs created
250: Retail, restaurant and hotel jobs to be created
250: Capacity for weddings at Elements banquets
158: Guest rooms in the Hotel Indigo
$130: Estimated lowest price for a room at Hotel Indigo
18: River view hotel rooms
9: New retail stores
9: Hats in a themed display at Plank Bar and Kitchen inside Hotel Indigo
6: Old buildings demolished
5: Historic murals
5: New restaurants
4: Custom wallpaper designs featuring historic Naperville images in hotel rooms
3: New buildings
2.4: Acres of land
1: New six-story parking deck
1: Relocated "Dick Tracy" sculpture
1: New fountain
0: Safety issue-related injuries during construction
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