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Brian Kidd was the senior project architect for K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit luxury apartment tower that recently opened in the Fulton River District. Brian is a Senior Associate at Pappageorge Haymes Partners in Chicago. Join Brian for an insider’s look at the challenges posed by K2′s site, the process that informed the ...
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Posted by sponsored post on May 7, 2013
The first of three evening events showcasing seven furnished model apartments took place last night at K2, the new luxury apartment high-rise in the Fulton River District. The event drew a crowd that numbered in the hundreds. There was great weather, good food, refreshments, music from KISS FM, luxury cars from Perillo and an opportunity ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 2, 2013
The K2 Designer Showcase, May 1, 2 and 3, will feature seven models from Chicago designers Morgante Wilson Architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill, Design for a Cure and Brook Furniture Rental. Each night from 6:30 to 9 pm guests will be able to tour all seven apartment models, which range from a bachelor studio ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 30, 2013
K2, the new 496-unit luxury apartment tower in the Fulton River District, may have been the first Chicago high-rise to open its outdoor pool this season. It’s also the first to host a Designer Showcase, featuring seven furnished models from noted architects and designers. The models will be shown off at a Designer Showcase event, ...
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Posted by sponsored post on April 29, 2013
The 496-unit, 34-story K2 at 365 N Halsted is the first new luxury high-rise to open in a rental boom that will add thousands of units to the downtown Chicago market before the year is over. Yesterday CBS 2 toured K2′s extensive amenities, interviewed one of the first residents in a model apartment, and talked ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 15, 2013
K2, the newly-opened apartment tower at 365 N Halsted in the Fulton River District, is one of our sponsors. The management and leasing staff were just moving in when I visited two weeks ago. Workmen were putting the finishing touches on the amenities level. Furnishings and fitness equipment hadn’t been delivered or installed. I stopped ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 5, 2013
We haven’t added Steve Fifield‘s site at 601-625 W Monroe in the West Loop to our list of new downtown apartment projects, because current plans call only for a 40-story office tower. The current plans are subject to change, according to Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily: “This is a city of skyscrapers,” Mr. Fifield said. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 18, 2013
K2, the luxury high-rise at 365 N Halsted in the Fulton River District, is opening ahead of schedule, with first occupancies set for March 1st. There was a flurry of activity at the building, and the management, leasing and custodial staff were setting up in their new offices during our visit. Randy Fifield of the ...
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Posted by sponsored post on February 12, 2013
Three new Evanston apartment complexes are racing toward delivering nearly 500 units this spring, and all appeared to be on schedule when we visited several days ago. We served up an update yesterday on the 214-unit AMLI Evanston development. The 80-unit Central Station, pictured above at 1720 Central St, is topped out and nearly fully ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 12, 2013
The first apartment move-ins at K2 in the Fulton River District are slated for March 1, well ahead of schedule. I’ll be there this morning, visiting the community and bringing you a video tour. In the meantime, enjoy the views and scan the news release that was received last Friday.
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 11, 2013
Morguard Corp. has announced that it has agreed to purchase Alta at K Station from Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner in a transaction slated to closed this month. The development was first reported to be for sale more than a year ago. Alta is a two-tower apartment complex in the Fulton River District with ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 3, 2012
After years of inactivity the southern part of Old Town has become a hotbed of new construction. JDL Development and Harlem Irving Cos are proposing a 5-story building with 71 apartments and ground-floor retail on a site directly across the street from the recently opened, rapidly renting 250-unit 1225 Old Town apartments. Construction recently began ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 21, 2012
Almost a year to the day after breaking ground on K2 at K Station, Fifield Companies hosted a topping-off party to celebrate the building’s reaching its full 34-story height. According to developers Steve and Randy Fifield, the 496-unit apartment tower is ahead of schedule and under budget, and will offer an even higher level of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 8, 2012
Chicago’s real estate brokers and developers have a long, proud tradition of charitable giving throughout the year, and they typically step up their efforts during the holiday season. Alta at K Station, Fifield Companies’ 848-unit two-tower luxury apartment community in the Fulton River District, is focusing its holiday giving on children, according to a recent ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 21, 2011
I spent some time yesterday chatting with Marie, an 18-year veteran crane operator, who will be half of the team running the tower crane at K2 at K Station, a new 34-story apartment high-rise under construction in the Fulton River District. I also met Mike Regal from Morrow Crane, a worldwide operation that rents 550 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 2, 2011
Construction of K2 at K Station, a 496-unit 34-story luxury apartment tower at 365 N Halsted St in Chicago’s Fulton River District, began weeks before the official groundbreaking ceremony (video, right) on November 2, 2011. K2 is the fifth and final residential high-rise in the K Station development, joining Left Bank (2006), Echelon (2008) and ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 12, 2011
In 2003 the 8-acre Fulton River District site that became K Station, now a residential complex of nearly 2,000 units, was nearly surrounded by rail lines and had a subway line running underneath a part of it. It was in the path of development, but far enough west that many developers shied from the challenges ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 11, 2011
Hey, EnV — Alta at K Station will see your basic LEED status and raise you a Gold. With 848 apartments spread over two towers, Fifield‘s apartment complex at 555 W Kinzie St in the Fulton River District is now the biggest apartment building in the country to have earned LEED Gold certification from the ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on February 22, 2011
As we checked out the views to the west from a balcony at Alta at K Station‘s western high-rise, I asked Alta Leasing Consultant Matt Hawkins and K2 Concierge Christine Klein about the perks of living in the Fulton River District. Here, they talk about the ease of access to stores, bars, restaurants, and transportation ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on April 12, 2010
Renters have started moving into the western tower at Alta at K Station, located at 365 N Jefferson St in the Fulton River District. According to Leasing Director Sam Barlog, Lincoln Property Company and the Fifield Companies will focus on leasing out Alta’s 39-story, 420-unit west tower this spring, saving announcements about prices and delivery ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on March 2, 2010
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