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K2, a new 496-unit luxury apartment tower in Chicago’s Fulton River District, Chicago-based Fifield Companies and Wood Partners, one of the nation’s leading multifamily developers, will host a first-of-its kind K2 Designer Showcase May 1 – 3 to celebrate the grand opening of K2. The K2 Designer Showcase, which is open to the public, will ...
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Posted by sponsored post on April 25, 2013
To celebrate the grand opening of K2, a new 496-unit luxury apartment tower in Chicago’s Fulton River District, Chicago-based Fifield Companies and one of the nation’s leading multifamily developers, Wood Partners, will host a first-of-its kind K2 Designer Showcase May 1 – 3. Open to the public, the K2 Designer Showcase will feature seven models ...
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Posted by sponsored post on April 23, 2013
Meet Kristina, the first resident at the new K2 luxury apartment high-rise in the Fulton River District. When her lease expired, Kristina chose K2 over her current residence because “it’s phenomenal. It’s gorgeous. It’s more sophisticated. It’s got better finishes. It’s the grown-up version of Alta.” Share Kristina’s excitement about her new home in the ...
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Posted by sponsored post on April 2, 2013
It’s common for newly-opened apartment buildings to offer discounted rent deals during their initial lease-up. The offers are typically described as free rent. The new K2, for example, is offering a month’s free rent on a 13-month lease to residents who apply no later than April 30 and move in before June 1. That translates ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on March 27, 2013
From a recent news release: Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., have announced that Canadian REIT Morguard Corp. has purchased the 848-unit Class A luxury apartment development Alta at K Station for $302 million. “This is a landmark deal for Fifield Companies and for Chicago,” said ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 26, 2012
A week rarely goes by without my visiting at least one Chicago rooftop. Yesterday I rode the construction elevator to the top of K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story apartment tower in the Fulton River District that’s scheduled for occupancy in April of next year. The views were spectacular in every direction despite hazy ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 25, 2012
If you time travel back 10 years the Fulton River District was a largely barren area, and it would have been hard to envision how swiftly it has developed. With the addition of thousands of condo and apartment units, and a rapidly developing restaurant scene, it’s well on its way to becoming a thriving scene. ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 14, 2012
Late last week four 20-foot sections were added to the tower crane at K2 at K Station, bringing it to its final height and enabling construction to advance from the 26th to its topping out at the 34th floor. Window installation, drywalling and spraying of popcorn ceilings is proceeding on the lower floors. The concrete ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 7, 2012
You’ll find an American flag unfurled somewhere at nearly every major construction site. The Star Spangled Banner at K2 at K Station “in full glory reflected now shines in the stream” rather than being “dimly seen through the mists of the deep.” Old Glory’s base, not by accident, is on the 13th floor of the ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 30, 2012
In a deceptively simple operation a “jacking crane” frames part of a tower crane and lifts the crane’s cab and jibs twenty feet, opening a hole for the addition of another 20-foot section to the crane. What’s simple to describe is, of course, the result of technological wizardry and precision skills. Marie Spear, one of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 18, 2012
K2 at K Station is a 496-unit 34-story apartment tower that’s under construction in Chicago’s Fulton River District. McHugh Construction Project Engineer Owen Smith showed me around the site yesterday, starting at ground level and ending on the 13th floor, which is partially complete. From the 9th floor on we climbed construction ladders. We stopped ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 24, 2012
My recent schedule has kept me from spending as much time as I would have liked to at K2 at K Station, which is under construction in the Fulton River District. I did stop by briefly on Wednesday to check on the project’s status. Crews were pouring the 6th floor and planning to start construction ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 18, 2012
K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment building in the Fulton River District broke ground last October. Its progress from then until now is compressed into less than 90 seconds in the above time-lapse video. You can follow K2′s construction on Facebook and, of course, on YoChicago’s YouTube playlist for the development.
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 20, 2012
Alan Schachtman is a principal in the Fifield-Wood joint venture that’s developing K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment building under construction in Chicago’s Fulton River District. I stopped by K2 this morning as the weekly construction meeting was wrapping up, and stepped outside with Alan for a progress report. Workers were pouring ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 18, 2012
The news release just came across our virtual desk: CHICAGO – (February 2, 2012) Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., have announced the sale of Echelon at K Station, a Class A luxury apartment building in Chicago’s West Loop. Miami-based developer Crescent Heights purchased the 350-unit ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 2, 2012
The headline read 6-tower project planned, and the story began: A Chicago-based developer intends to build a $750 million residential project near downtown that it said will have enough scope and variety to be a new neighborhood. Fifield Cos. is set Thursday to unveil finalized plans for a community called K Station that would link ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 1, 2012
Jonathan Jackson is a Technical Engineer with Plumbers Local 130 and a licensed land surveyor. When I stopped to chat with him at K2 at K Station, a 34-story apartment tower under construction in the Fulton River District, he was checking to ensure that nothing outside of the site was moving. Moving? As Jonathan explains ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 31, 2012
Our unusually mild weather is contributing to rapid progress on the construction of K2, K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story rental high-rise in Chicago’s Fulton River District. Click the panoramic view, above, for a closer look at the activity on the site just after 8 this morning. You can see more of our start-to-finish ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 25, 2012
Alan Schachtman is a principal in the Fifield-Wood joint venture that’s developing K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment building under construction in Chicago’s Fulton River District. Alan began his nearly 30-year career as an architect with SOM and Murphy/Jahn, and has since overseen the development of major office and residential projects throughout ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 17, 2012
Our unusually warm winter weather is facilitating rapid progress at the K2 at K Station construction site. You can see more coverage of the 34-story apartment tower underway in Chicago’s Fulton River District at our building profile page and our YouTube playlist.
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 10, 2012
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