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Chicago entrepreneur turns empty downtown office space into vertical gardens

The pandemic changed how, and where, the world works, but the empty office space left behind is a big drain on the owners of all that unused commercial real estate.   But one entrepreneur is starting to plant the seeds of a partial solution to this lingering problem.

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Al Orendorff