April 20, 2010 – Unit owners at Marina City will get a taste of proposed changes to the circular residential hallways. Marina Towers Condominium Association approved spending $16,127 to renovate just the 53rd floor of the east tower for now.

The model floor was announced to residents last December and approved at the February 18 meeting of the MTCA board of directors.

Light gray carpeting will encircle the core of the model floor, with a darker gray carpet leading to the elevators. A 24-foot-long fixture will light the elevator vestibule, and ten smaller fixtures will highlight residents’ doors.

Doors will be upgraded, too, with peepholes installed at a lower level to accommodate shorter residents. New doorknockers will replace doorbells.

(Above) Above each door, new lighting will be installed, seen here in samples on the 51st floor of the east tower.

Meanwhile, more work will be done to the 20th floors of both towers, where laundry and storage facilities are located. A new fitness room was built on the 20th floor of the west tower and there is a new MTCA meeting room in the same space in the east tower.

The renovation, which will cost the condo association $17,528, will include a new 24-foot-long lighting fixture in each elevator vestibule, along with new limestone and a mirror along the wall.

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