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Chase Park is one of Chicago’s great neighborhood parks. It has a full complement of physical facilities — an outdoor pool, running track, tennis courts, playground, ball fields and a field house with fitness center and theater. The park is typically flooded with people participating in a wide variety of activities, programs and special events. ...
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Posted by sponsored post on April 1, 2013
The Andersonville neighborhood will see its first major new construction condos since 2008 in the form of townhouses at 4832 N Clark. The attached townhouse development is an exciting addition and expansion of housing units in this popular North Side area. Let’s take a look at how Andersonville area condo sales are doing (attached homes ...
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Posted by Eric Rojas on March 19, 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
The 6-flat has long been one of Chicago’s most popular housing types – so popular, in fact, that you can find very few in lakefront neighborhoods that haven’t been converted to condominiums. One of the densest concentrations of architecturally-interesting 6-flats can be found in the Sheridan Park neighborhood in Uptown. Sheridan Park is home to ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on February 22, 2013
Far North
The past half-dozen years have seen almost no new construction of rowhomes in the Andersonville area, despite the neighborhood’s increasing popularity. CMK Realty has just begun marketing 23 new rowhomes, priced from the $420s, on the large stretch of vacant land just west of 4846 N Clark St. The homes will have two-car attached garages ...
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Posted by sponsored post on February 14, 2013
Polo Tower, 4180 N Marine Dr in the Buena Park section of Uptown, has a long history with YoChicago and its New Homes Magazine predecessor. We first mentioned Polo Tower as a high-rise condo conversion in October of 2001. At the time, one-bedrooms in the building ranged upwards from the $140s. By the time of ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 19, 2012
Chicago’s grand parks may draw more attention, but they can’t match the spirit of community and sense of ownership found in the city’s popular neighborhood parks. One of the north side’s handful of neighborhood gems is Chase Park, just south of Lawrence Ave between Clark St and Ashland Ave. Chase Park began as a semi-professional ...
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Posted by sponsored post on November 10, 2012
Two weeks ago Uptown Update reported that JDL Development had signed an agreement to acquire the Maryville Academy site at Clarendon and Montrose in Uptown‘s Clarendon Park neighborhood. The site is at the center of the above aerial photo. Yesterday Uptown Update posted news that a community meeting will be held next week to hear ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on November 9, 2012
CMK Realty is about to begin marketing 40 new 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 2-bedroom plus den units at 4846 North Clark. The units have a loft-like feel, with 10-foot ceilings, open floor plans and generously-sized flexible layouts. The units have hardwood floors, large windows opening onto expansive views, oversized baths, in-unit washer/dryers, large balconies and kitchens ...
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Posted by sponsored post on November 5, 2012
Here’s the lede to a TimeOut Chicago piece on 1325 W Wilson, an Uptown building that began its life as the the Norman Hotel in 1929, was rehabbed by Peter Holsten in the late 80s, and has had a spotty history since then: The hallways of Wilson Tower, a 12-story midrise at 1325 West Wilson ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 26, 2012
Five years ago today we wrote about two Uptown condo conversions directly across the street from each other at 927 and 928 W Eastwood. We noted the similarities between the projects, which were being marketed at similar price points: It’s a close call on several fronts. Besides their location, on a cul-de-sac just a few ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 5, 2012
Five years ago we provided a sales update on 918-28 W Ainslie, a complete rehab of a vintage 38-unit courtyard in the Margate Park sub-neighborhood of Uptown. At the time, only one unit remained available for sale, a 1-bedroom priced at $214,800. The building is on a tree-shrouded street that’s book-ended by the recently-revamped Buttercup ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 16, 2012
Last week we quietly began keeping track of the available inventory of homes and condos listed for rent in six north lakefront ZIP Codes in the local MLS. The ZIP Codes hug the lakefront from Lincoln Park north to Rogers Park. We’ve been watching MLS-listed rentals in downtown ZIP Codes for more than 2 years, ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on January 16, 2012
We published print real estate newspapers and magazines until three years ago. We folded our popular New Homes Magazine, the last of our print publications, in 2008 due to the depressed state of new residential construction in Chicago. New Homes was published monthly, 10 times a year. Each issue included an objective look at a ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on December 1, 2011
The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91% over last quarter / 102% over a year ago), Lincoln Square (up 84% / 93%); North Center (up 119% / 28%), Lakeview (up 68% / 38%), and Uptown (up 79% / ...
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Posted by Jeff Baird on October 28, 2011
It’s anachronistic to refer to a home built in the early 1900s as a McMansion. There were no golden arches in 1906 when the home at 920 W Castlewood Terrace was built, but there were genuine mansions and this $899K, 3-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home wasn’t numbered among them. It’s the turn-of-the-last-century equivalent of today’s ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 18, 2011
It’s been about 35 years since I first met an enthusiast for the Uptown Theatre and heard tales of its imminent revival and its promise to transform the neighborhood. The latest report on the topic comes via the Tribune’s Blair Kamin. In the course of a long and engrossing article on the Uptown Theatre’s history ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on October 12, 2011
Uptown Update has a list of 13 condos that are part of a coordinated open house effort this coming Sunday, September 11. The units range in size from two to four bedrooms and in price from $214.9K to $379K, and all are said to be in Uptown’s Sheridan Park neighborhood. Only 9 of the 13 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 8, 2011
We first mentioned Polo Tower, a 189-unit high-rise condo conversion at 4180 N Marine Dr in Uptown, in October of 2001, in the print edition of our since-folded New Homes Magazine. One-bedroom prices at the time began in the $140s. When New Homes took another look at the project, in September of 2004, the project ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on September 5, 2011
If you like having lots of roommates you might want to check out Stone Soup Ashland, a cooperative living arrangement in a 100-year old convent with 26 bedrooms. Once accepted you become a “member” rather than just a roommate and take on some responsibilities for running the house in addition to paying your modest ($500 ...
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Posted by Joe Zekas on July 30, 2011
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