Oh, you mean
the uber-trendy food hall with the 1 million sf of office product appendaged to it?
[also, if you're going to use its historical moniker, at least get it right--
United Shoe Machinery Corp. Building. ahem

]
Funny thing about proposing to demolish it--there actually was a dead-earnest proposal to do so, in the early 1980s. Enter a bunch of wild-eyed hysterical hopeless romantic sentimental NIMBY busybodies. They sure
NIMBYed the hell out of that plan!
Which I guess means the moral of the story is: sometimes NIMBYs are exasperating; other times they are saviors; and it is certainly unwise to paint them with a reductivist brush that makes them uniformly evil. Sometimes *progress* is, in fact, appalling.