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Prairie District
Asking prices on resale units at Prairie Pointe, 1600 S Prairie Ave in the South Loop, range from under $200 to nearly $400 per square foot. The low end of the per square foot price range is close to the average price at which 13 units in the building sold at auction in March of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 19, 2013
Last July Related Midwest acquired control of 157 unsold condo units in the 288-unit Museum Park Place South, 1901 S Calumet Ave, in the South Loop. Crain’s Chicago Business spoke to Related Midwest’s Curt Bailey about the firm’s plans: Related has yet to set prices on its condos, but Mr. Bailey says the firm doesn’t ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 11, 2013
From the air, the Prairie District appears to be anything but tranquil. It’s ringed by modern high-rise condos and apartments, and bordered on the east by railroad tracks, Soldier Field, McCormick Place and Lake Shore Drive. Take a walk around the Prairie District on a sunny summer day. The density largely evaporates into residential tranquility, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 26, 2012
On April 20, 2007 YoChicago featured the South Loop’s Prairie District. Developers Jerry Karlik and Keith Giles gave us an overview of their ill-fated X/O Condominiums and its architecture: Tina Feldstein, then President of the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance, talked to us about the history of the area: Developer Robbie Frankel showed us around Lakeside ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on April 20, 2012
If you had to choose a single word to characterize well-known architects as a group, you’d be unlikely to choose “humility.” Frank Lloyd Wright, for example, is quoted as having said that “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 4, 2011
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