Tag: Condos
Up to $100,000 off at Eastgate Village
If you watched any college football through Comcast on Saturday afternoon, you might have caught a new ad announcing price cuts on select condos at [...]
Construction checkup: River North high-rises
I stopped by a cluster of River North developments this Friday to check up on the progress of their construction. From ground level The Elysian look [...]
Chicago's new lofts: What's left?
The past year has done a number on the selection of new true lofts throughout the city. Some developments, like University Village, finally reached se [...]
Construction checkup: Ten East Delaware
The new River North tower Ten East Delaware should be getting close to being ready for its first occupants: Its website claims that one-, two- and t [...]
Revisiting Woodlawn's Renaissance on Kimbark with Hasani Steele
Stonemason Group received a Good Neighbor Award from the Chicago Association of Realtors earlier this year for its ongoing Renaissance on Kimbark pr [...]
Vision: Back on track in Wicker Park?
Just when I was ready to sweep RDM Development's Vision into the dustbunny bin along with the company's still-empty Trio tower, along comes Jameson [...]
Trump Tower Express Meetings program
Trump International Hotel and Tower at 401 N Wabash Ave in River North is large. It stands 1,170 feet tall with 92 stories. A 23,000 square-foot spa [...]
CA23's local dance studio
Being in the West Loop, CA23's new condos at 23 N Aberdeen St have neighborhood amenities that more or less go without saying. Residents are blocks f [...]
A glimpse of new homes from Navy Pier
Surely you've heard some of the hoopla over Navy Pier's new AeroBalloon by now. My advice to anyone who wants to take a ride: Call ahead, because th [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: Bridgeport
Home to five of Chicago's 45 mayors, including the current Mayor Daley, Bridgeport is a south side community area of Chicago with a rich history. I [...]
More scenes from the CA23 block party
When he wasn't busy sampling the eats or rocking out to U2 (or something like it) at The Brixton Group's block party on Aberdeen Street in the West [...]
Silver Tower's local Merchandise Mart
Just south of the 40-story high-rise Silver Tower at 303 W Ohio St in River North is the behemoth Merchandise Mart (the short and long building seen [...]
More models at 235 Van Buren
The last two units I visited during the 235 Van Buren broker open house on Thursday were on two of the tower's highest accessible floors, the 24th a [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: North Park
"North Park" is a fitting name for this trapezoid-shaped community area on the Northwest Side: A significant portion of the neighborhood is made up [...]
A buyer's take on CA23
This weekend a buyer explained to Joe Zekas why he selected a home at CA23 in the West Loop after looking at "everything." The Brixton Group threw a [...]
Vertigo at CA23's West Loop block party
The Brixton Group, appealing to the many potential condo buyers who didn't score tickets to this weekend's U2 concert, hired Vertigo to perform at S [...]
235 Van Buren's two-bedroom models
There are so many models at 235 Van Buren that it was hard to decide which ones to visit during CMK Companies' broker open house on Thursday evening [...]
West Loop kiddie carts
If you haven't been to the West Loop in a while you'll be thrown for a loop by the number of small kids you see there. I snapped this shot yesterday [...]
One way to furnish a 235 Van Buren home
One of the purposes of a furnished model is to show buyers what will -- and won't -- fit inside a home. It's all well and good to look at a "living [...]
Aqua sees its first closing
The title says it all. According to Magellan Development's Aqua Home Owner's blog, the first closing at Aqua, 225 N Columbus Dr, is scheduled for 1 p. [...]