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Lake View church / condo conversion #3
This sanctuary at Barry and Clifton completes our trinity of Lake View church / condo conversions, for this week. On the left-hand side, through the [...]
From church to condo in Little Italy
Mark Boyer at Curbed has gotten a kick out of the number of church conversions going on around town, and recently published a post about one at 10 [...]
Faithful conversion: The Sanctuary
It's been more than a year since we checked in with the former Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church conversion at 2411 W Walton St known as “T [...]
Oversupplied condo market may squeeze investors when their "babies" are delivered
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Fewer than 300 new condominiums were completed and still on the market in downtown Chicago at the end of 2006, but the inventory of unso [...]
Holy Sanctuary! Ukrainian Village church goes condo
The Archdiocese of Chicago has faith in the city's real estate market, it seems: A developer is hoping that a vacant Catholic Church in Ukrainian Vill [...]
Prison condos: New York housing trend coming to Chicago?
The almost criminal rise in prices during the last decade of Chicago's booming real estate market has resulted in the conversion ("adaptive reuse" is [...]
Praise the Lord and cancel the college fund: Another Lake View church conversion
Earlier this week, we posted on an understated church / condo conversion at 1021 W Barry Ave. Just one block west, you can find a home for sale at a [...]
Downtown condos for $56,000? It happened just 10 years ago…
With all the housing and economic experts gazing into their crystal balls for 2005, now may be a good time to reflect on what was happening in the Chi [...]
From sandboxes to treehouses: Ranquist Development's latest endeavor in Bucktown
If the new banner ads on Division Street's benches are any indication, Ranquist Development is ready to get the word out about its newest condo proj [...]
Still two left at The Sanctuary in Humboldt Park
More than a year has passed since my last update on The Sanctuary, the condo conversion of the former Our Lady of Good Counsel Catholic Church at 24 [...]
River wild: resurrected waterway spurs building on diverse Northwest Side
As you follow the Chicago River northwest, past Lake View, the factories and skyscrapers that line its banks to the south give way to foliage so thi [...]
Drexel Parc Lofts nearing a sellout
Five units remain at Drexel Parc Lofts, the 59-unit soft-loft conversion at 4537 S Drexel Blvd in North Kenwood, according to Jerry Houlihan, direct [...]
South by southwest
New homes, residents spur change in staid affordable neighborhoodsÂ
Story by Alison Soltau | Photography by Barry Peterson
Amy Mogelber [...]
Limestone crosses and communion cups
Those are a few of the common area amenities that add up to "condos with mass appeal," the planned conversion of an abandoned Catholic church into 18 [...]
Back to the future
Story by Alison Soltau | Photography by Michael Jarecki
Can eclectic West Town balance preservation and building?Â
At The Bleeding Heart Bakery, [...]
South Side resurgence
New housing stirs hope and some fears in Woodlawn, Washington Park
New condo developments vie for buyers' attention on three of the four corners at [...]
Our Lady of the Duplexes
Back in December, Alison Soltau posted on R. Kelly's ghastly church / penthouse conversion. YoChicago recently noticed another converted house of w [...]
Hot restaurant scene complements boom in residential building
Where there's smoke there's fire, and presently the fire is on the back of my palate, courtesy of the "Flores de Jaiba" appetizer at Salpicon, 1252 N. [...]
Chicago's hottest neighborhoods 2005
Housing prices in Chicago have risen rapidly during the last decade, but they have not risen evenly. While prices on average have climbed considerably [...]
South Shore – the last lakefront refuge of the middle class?
Follow Lake Shore Drive as far south as you can, and then keep going. At 57th Street and the Museum of Science and Industry, the road begins to slow. [...]