Tag: New construction
Real estate brokers dish on CMK’s new South Loop condos
A crowd of real estate brokers came to Square One in the South Loop for a sneak peek at the first new condo high-rise to be built in Chicago in mo [...]
Is two months’ free rent the new norm for new apartments?
Winter isn't quite here yet, but winter specials are at a number of the new apartment projects in downtown Chicago.
Some of the buildings are a [...]
Random apartment construction updates
Within the past few days we've stopped by a few of the many sites where new apartments are under construction in downtown Chicago.
The photo ab [...]
Homes at 1992 prices in Chicago’s south suburbs
Crain's is reporting that Case-Shiller data shows home prices in some southern suburbs regressing to the levels that prevailed in 1992.
We've [...]
New South Loop condos draw a crowd
Real estate brokers flocked to the South Loop yesterday evening for a sneak peek at the first major condo development in downtown Chicago in half [...]
Development laugh lines, Old Town edition
Developer Howard Weiner is proposing to build an 11-story residential and commercial building at the southwest corner of North Ave and Clark St, a [...]
Demolition underway for Chicago and LaSalle apartments
The northeast corner of Chicago and LaSalle is the site of a new 33-story, 295-unit apartment tower with ground-floor retail space.
Demolition [...]
Another dream for the South Loop’s field of dreams?
The large tract of vacant land bordered by Wells St and the Chicago River south of Harrison St has seen development proposals come to naught over [...]
A new player at the Oriental Theater
Back in February we passed along a Sun-Times report on plans to convert the 22-story tower portion of the landmark Oriental Theatre to 230 loft ap [...]
Gold Coast high-rise gets green Ward instead of green light
Chicago's new 2nd Ward has boundaries, outlined in bright green above, that only Chicago Aldermen could love. And only an alderman can love the ne [...]
Chicago’s most popular new apartment towers
One way to gauge which new apartment projects are attracting the most interest from Chicago renters is to look at which YoChicago review pages ren [...]
New Gold Coast condo tower moving forward?
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that bid documents have been posted for a proposed 26-story condo tower at the northeast corner of [...]
Live like a land baron in Washington Park
One thing we don't do at YoChicago is write about properties as if we've been there when we haven't.
We haven't been to the 5700 block of Sout [...]
Mondial apartments sell at a large profit
Mondial, in River West, is an apartment project that we've followed in dozens of posts through many ups and downs over more than seven years. Our [...]
Lender puts a stamp of success on K2
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reported yesterday that GE Capital Corp had provided a $110 million refinancing loan for K2, a new luxury apartm [...]
E2 luxury apartments break ground in Evanston
Steve and Randy Fifield of Fifield Companies and Robert King of Carroll Properties keynoted the official groundbreaking for E2, two luxury apartme [...]
Is Grand Plaza feeling heat from new buildings?
AMLI River North and Hubbard Place, two new rental towers that recently opened in River North, added a total of 877 new apartments to a market tha [...]
Luxury Bucktown condos in a boutique building
All three luxury condos at 2138 N Damen Ave, listed at prices from $1.049M to $1.115M were sold prior to completion. That's almost always the case [...]
A video look inside Old Town’s best apartments
1225 Old Town is a new boutique high-rise at 1225 N Wells St in Chicago's pedestrian-friendly Old Town neighborhood.
1225 has a full complement [...]