Tag: 60611
Roaming the roof at 600 Lake Shore Drive
There's no point in wasting a sunny day, especially when you're taking a tour of a Lake Shore Drive high-rise. With that in mind, Joe Zekas asked de [...]
Homes with history in the "new" Playboy building
Our Streeterville correspondent Francesca Rose checked in yesterday with a post topic in mind: the 84-year-old high-rise at 680 N Lake Shore Dr.
Thi [...]
An early afternoon visit to Trump's riverwalk
"Please enjoy our plaza," read the signs near the entrance and exit points at Trump's new riverwalk. It's not something many Chicagoans were heed [...]
Ted's take on Pearson on the Park
Earlier this year a group of investors bought up the remaining inventory at the converted Pearson on the Park high-rise at 222 E Pearson St in Stree [...]
By request: Eight developer homes still for sale at Avenue East in Streeterville
"What's the % sold in this building?" a reader asked via e-mail last week? The building in question was Avenue East, Residential Homes of America's 13 [...]
990 Lake Shore Drive – the view from the roof
It was a brilliantly clear morning as Francesca Rose and I headed for the roof at 990 Lake Shore Drive, one of Streeterville's oft-overlooked condos [...]
Staging the master bedroom
Last November, our Streeterville expert Francesca Rose went on camera with Kim Baker and Karen Fike of Chicago Home Staging at ParkView condo to tal [...]
Crashing the party: cocktails and condos at a 600 Lake Shore Drive open house
Grab some hors d'oeuvres and a glass of wine and follow me through two three-bedroom condos at Belgravia Group's 600 Lake Shore Drive. Last week I a [...]
Following Francesca: Streeterville's best bites
You can learn a lot about a neighborhood by visiting its restaurants. Francesca Rose, a Streeterville expert and a real estate agent at Prudential R [...]
Shark bites: Lake Shore Drive deals, from Streeterville to Lake View
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This afternoon I plotted out all of the top Lake Shore Drive price reductions, foreclo [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
This was the scene at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Erie Street on Wednesday afternoon, where workers were clearly doing something with a crane [...]
Promotions from the past: The Spire
We've cultivated quite the collection of promotional materials from sales centers, ranging from a handful of Xeroxed floor plans stapled to hand-wri [...]
An in-Spire-d contest announcement
Have a plan for the Chicago Spire hole? It may be worth $3,500.
Taking cues from a variety of snarky blog posts, newspaper columns, and message boa [...]
On Michigan Avenue, at the Hancock
Joe Zekas found himself with some time to kill prior to his Streeterville tour with Prudential Rubloff agent Francesca Rose last September, so he tr [...]
Investors cut prices at Pearson on the Park
A group of investors recently bought up all of the unsold units at the failed Pearson on the Park conversion at 222 E Pearson St in Streeterville and [...]
Concession collection: Deals at three downtown rental high-rises
I spent part of the morning calling some of the newer rental high-rises to find out what kinds of incentives and concessions they're offering new tena [...]
Shark bites: Short-selling a Trump studio
Unit #2414 at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago may be one of the high-rise's smaller spaces, but when it comes to short sale discounts in Riv [...]
360 degrees of views from a riverfront duplex penthouse
Last fall Joe Zekas joined Prudential Rubloff's Joanne Nemerovski for a walk through Unit #2701 at 445 E North Water St, one of the most spectacular [...]
"Friends and family" deal pays off at Trump
One group of sellers at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago are doing OK. According to an article at Crain's ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, partici [...]
"Offers welcome" for a Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza terrace home
Meet T-905, the last terrace condo to go at Centrum Properties' Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza high-rise at 240 E Illinois St in Streeterville. As the [...]