So a few people have been asking to hear the Trump story… so here it is. For those who don’t know, Trump International Hotel and Tower had their grand opening a few weeks ago. Got great reviews - I can’t wait to get into the restaurant, Sixteen, great interior. Our friend Mary over at C2 called us two weeks before the opening. Conversation something like this: The Hotel is opening… it’s still being built… the top floors are being built… the bottom floors are opening… there’s a HUGE crane on top of the building… the city of Chicago demanded that they build a protective structure… it’s going to be under construction for a year… it’s opening… they would like to hide the fact that it’s under construction… we need to show ideas immediately. COOL!!! I go home, my mom is visiting, she doesn’t believe that I have a meeting with Ivanka (which I don’t, but I’m hopeful). We present ideas which include wrapping and lighting the interiors of the support structures which will changes colors - would look great from the river.
One night I’m at an event - Mary calls me, she’s on hold with Colm, who’s on hold with The Donald himself who is looking at our ideas. I’m feeling pretty cool. The decision is made that because this is a temporary fix, we’re going to do a smaller version of one of our ideas. Probably a good call considering it needs to withstand an full year of abuse and all that four seasons of Chicago weather can hurl at it. btw: this is all going on while the temperature is somewhere below the North Pole’s. Every meeting is outside the tower’s main entrance and is a test of the humans skin’s endurance to the cold. I missed a conference call that Ivanka was on. Mike, who was leading the construction team, said that he’d sell me the number - I told him my wife would kill me. Construction was completed just in time. Greatest feature was building gray structures around the concrete bases - cleaned up the main site line in one day. Definitely the best bang for the buck. We’ll post some photos once we thaw.
finally thawed :
