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FitzGerald Associates
The Madison on Racine, a new 216-unit apartment complex held its official groundbreaking yesterday and I was in attendance. According to architect Pat FitzGerald, the project marks “a significant change in the West Loop, a large rental building in an area that’s seen mostly condo development up until now… there’s a lot of potential in ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on May 24, 2013
Add yet another project to Chicago’s rental apartment boom. Somerset Place, an Uptown hellhole that was shut down by the state three years ago, will be transformed into rental apartments. The building, at 5009 N Sheridan, began its life as the 441-room Somerset Hotel. According to a recent announcement from FitzGerald Associates Architects: FitzGerald has ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 27, 2013
More than 10 years after the start of construction, the 13-story, 63-unit condo building at 720 W Randolph St in the West Loop may be finally nearing completion. FitzGerald Associates Architects has been retained to design seven units in the top two floors, which are currently vacant. According to a brief note at FitzGerald’s website, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 18, 2013
Storkline Furniture was once one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of infant and child furniture, but its sprawling factory at the bleak western edge of the Little Village / South Lawndale neighborhood has been vacant for years. FitzGerald Associates Architects, on behalf of Mercy Housing Lakefront, has developed a plan to transform the 218,000 square ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 26, 2012
FitzGerald Associates‘ email newsletter arrives with the subject line “All the News That’s Fitz,” making the architectural firm a fit target for headline puns. Yesterday’s edition alerted us to final City Council zoning approvals for two projects – one that was familiar (Atrium Village, albeit with an unfamiliar rendering, above) and another that wasn’t (200 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on August 9, 2012
The ambitious plan for Atrium Village has taken a step forward with the filing of a Planned Development application with the city. Plans for the 7-acre site call for a five-phase development with 1,673 residences and retail space in 8- to 44-story buildings totaling more than 2,000,000 square feet. A recent news release elaborates: When ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 4, 2011
The long-discussed Cermak Creative Arts District has taken a small step forward with the selection of architectural firms to perform the first phase of planning for the district, which would be centered on the Cermak Road Historic Bridge District (pdf). A team led by FitzGerald Associates and Hitchcock Design Group was selected from among 32 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on June 2, 2011
The Gateway at Washington Park never had a chance. The real estate insiders we talked to last winter took one look at New South Partners’ mixed-use plan and dismissed it outright. After all, the climate for new construction was terrible, the city had lost its Olympics bid, and the developers hadn’t acquired all the land ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on February 3, 2011
A couple summers ago, Gazette Chicago reported that Skokie-based F&F Realty planned to build a 514-unit apartment building with “hotel-style amenities” and hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail space at the southeast corner of Halsted and Madison streets, a site that currently serves as a parking lot for the Crowne Plaza hotel. This ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on January 28, 2011
“The ‘Clybourn Corridor’ of the 1990s will be Grand Avenue.” – Developer Jack Berger, speaking to Charles Hayes of the Chicago Tribune in a Sept. 10, 1989, profile of River West development. The article singled out nine loft developments on or near Grand Avenue, including a couple that Jack developed himself, but in Hayes’ opinion, the ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 28, 2010
FitzGerald Associates‘ first design for the Winthrop Club was a brick tower inspired by the architectural styles of the late 1800s, says Winthrop Properties co-principal Bob Horner. Obviously, that’s not the building that stands at 1570 Elmwood Ave in Evanston today. Horner, his partner Ibrahim Shihadeh, and FitzGerald principal Michael DeRouin talked about the Winthrop ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 29, 2009
Last Wednesday I joined a handful of other reporters in a top-to-bottom tour of Winthrop Properties‘ new high-rise, the Winthrop Club, located at 1570 Elmwood Ave in Evanston. We were greeted on the fifth-floor sundeck by Winthrop principals Bob Horner and Ibrahim Shihadeh, who started off the walk-through with an overview of the tower’s conception ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 27, 2009
Yesterday I started a three-part look at the two-bedroom / two-bath market in three lakeside communities on the North and Far North sides: Lake View, Uptown, and Edgewater. In Lake View, these types of condos run from the $340s to the $560s, with a median price in the $440s. Move north into the next community ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on September 24, 2009
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 block party outside the new development at 23 N Aberdeen St on Saturday. Off-camera he added one additional motivator: He had a high degree of comfort with ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on September 14, 2009
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