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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
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
Closings should begin at Walton on the Park, 2 W Delaware Pl, in early June, according to the sales associate manning the building’s on-site sales center on Monday afternoon. The sales staff has been inside the Enterprise / Mesirow-developed, Pappageorge / Haymes-designed high-rise for almost a month, she says, and its 14th-floor sales center and ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on May 25, 2010
Michigan Avenue Tower II is one of two South Loop developments with units going up for auction this weekend. If you’re in the market for a condo and have decided to go for a home in a high-rise instead of a loft, you’ll probably want to do some last-minute research on the building. Here are ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on November 11, 2009
Accelerated Marketing Services has posted a breakdown of the Michigan Avenue Tower II condos it’s auctioning on November 15. I had to punch in my name and e-mail address before I could find it, but you should be able to access the list directly through the tower’s Web site. In case you can’t (or don’t ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 22, 2009
Are the auction floodgates finally opening? Following the Vetro auction last winter, several market observers expected condos at big developments to hit the block left and right, especially in the South Loop. It’s taken a while, but we’re starting to see it. First came news that 20 homes at the Motor Row Lofts would go ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 21, 2009
Welcome to the another installment of our ongoing “Web presence” feature, in which we collect as many links as we can for one residential development, from sites for the building and its developer, architect, and management company, to “fan” groups and discussions on social networking sites and forums. This week, learn more about life at ...
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Posted by erik stonikas on October 21, 2009
The non-profit development arm of Park National Bank hopes to build as many as 3,000 new single-family homes, townhouses and low-rises on 138 acres in Pullman, according to Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily. The development, planned for the site of an old Ryerson steel mill plant at 720 E 111th St, will also include a ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 21, 2009
Up and up and up Walton on the Park goes…where it stops, somebody knows! I’ll hazard a guess and say it has another three stories left in it, based on the new photos above and the original Pappageorge / Haymes rendering below. Coldwell Banker, the project’s exclusive broker, currently lists 106 homes for sale in ...
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Posted by Joseph Askins on October 19, 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
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 looks virtually completed, with an equipment truck and tarps being the only signs of continued work. Walton on the Park is coming along, with about 30 of its planned 39 ...
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Posted by erik stonikas on September 21, 2009
Fulton River District‘s newest rental high-rise development, K Station’s Alta at K Station, 555 W Kinzie St, looks to be at a turning point in construction. The project’s western tower, Cirrus (at right), has topped out with all of its 37 stories completed and windows installed almost all the way up. Its counterpart to the ...
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Posted by erik stonikas on September 16, 2009
In the second part of our look at Mondial, architect / developer Jack Berger talks about his work in River West. I also solicited his take on other Chicago developments. Trump Tower? “Wonderful.” Pappageorge Haymes’ work at Museum Park – “a little kitschy” to “terrific.” Aqua? “Gimmickry …architecture for the fat lady in the front ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 6, 2009
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