Tag: Rentals
Oakwood 200 Squared voted best of 2011
Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB), the architecture firm that designed many of Chicago's signature buildings, has been the recipient of countless award [...]
Drilling the caissons at Optima Center in Streeterville
Ever wonder what keeps Chicago's giant high-rises from sinking into the ground under their own weight? The answer is caissons.
Workers are curr [...]
Home for the holidays at Oakwood 200 Squared
Chicago's Loop is always buzzing with events, pulsing with an energy level you can experience only in the heart of a few of the world's great citi [...]
Three-bedroom rental shootout – Aqua vs 340 on the Park
If you're in the market for a high-end rental on Chicago's New East Side you have options in two very different buildings in the complex: Aqua and [...]
How Amli’s CEO views the downtown rental market
Abby Gallun from Crain's interviews AMLI Residential CEO's Greg Mutz on prospects for the downtown and suburban new construction rental markets in [...]
A Lake View studio model with character
450 West Melrose, in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood is a four-plus-one or, in the words of Planned Property's Dan McDonough, "a modern mid-rise [...]
Meet Charlie Zechel, a master cement finisher
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apar [...]
Evanston apartment complex breaks buildings
Demolition of the existing buildings has begun on the site a new 214-unit apartment complex in Evanston. Call it a building-breaking rather than a [...]
How will new university housing impact the downtown rental market?
According to the Chicago Loop Alliance (pdf), more than 65,000 students attend classes in the Loop / South Loop area.
Downtown Chicago campus [...]
The flying forms are flying at K2
We've been diligently following construction progress at K2 at K Station, a new rental high-rise, for the past several weeks. You can see video of [...]
Chicago’s best apartment rental website
There's no single website that's best for Chicago apartment searches of all types.
There is, however, one that stands out if you're limiting y [...]
Affordable artist live / work lofts in Logan Square
The landmark Morris Sachs building at 2800 N Milwaukee Ave in Logan Square has been transformed into Hairpin Lofts, a community resource where Log [...]
Yelp reviews that reek – My Town Realty Group edition
You're all probably highly aware of this phenomenon by now, but a reminder never hurts.
When you're looking at reviews of apartment rental services [...]
Year-end flurry of downtown high-rise sales
Crain's is reporting the sale of Flair Tower, 222 W Erie St, and 1212 S Michigan Ave, both rental apartment buildings. A sale may also be in the w [...]
Mapping the new downtown apartment projects
We've updated our list and map of downtown apartment projects that are proposed or under construction to add several recently-announced projects a [...]
Is Chicago ready for speed roommating ?
It's called "speed flatmating" in London, and The Telegraph describes how it works:
This is the property world's version of speed-dating. Peopl [...]
Day one of a 5-day build-a-crane show at K2
The new apartment tower at K2 at K Station is rolling along.
McHugh Construction completed the drilling of 120 80-foot deep caissons in just 2 [...]
Nearly a third of East LSD co-op available for rent
There's been a flurry of media buzz lately about Oprah Winfrey's co-op at 199 East Lake Shore Drive being offered for rent at $15,000 a month. Cur [...]
Site work underway at Optima’s 200 East Illinois apartments
A week ago Crain's reported that Optima had secured financing for and was getting ready to break ground on a 42-story, 325-unit Streeterville apar [...]
SOAR – Seniors Opposed to Anything, Really
I don't know which is more amusing – The Chicago Architecture Blog's characterizing the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents (SOAR) as " loc [...]