Author: alison
Chicago woman Trumped on "The Apprentice"
We'd hire you Rebecca. We thought you were a class act on crutches. For those of you scratching your heads, YoChicago is referring to 23-year-old fina [...]
North Town Park gets the nod
If you thought the creation of North Town Village, which replaced the former Cabrini-Green public housing development, was a staggering transformation [...]
The lonely Victorian
Brick condo buildings will soon surround Kelly Kniewel's Victorian home on the 3100-block of North Sheffield Avenue. The block is transforming at ligh [...]
When your Chicago rental goes condo…
What should you do when your downtown apartment building goes condo? Renters face a mixed bag of experiences in New York, according to contributors to [...]
Park Boulevard mixed-income development to break ground
The mixed-income development Park Boulevard will break ground at West 35th Street near South Federal Street, on Thursday, the latest project in the ci [...]
Christmas in Gary
You find Christmas spirit in the most unexpected of places. Driving through the strange rural/industrial landscape a little east of Gary, Indiana on S [...]
Loft + atrium = silly name
When you're trying to come up with a name for your development that will resonate with buyers, it's a good idea to pick something that highlights the [...]
Dog days in Chicago highrises
Just how pet-friendly can a highrise condo be? Dog-ownership is common in highrise-happy neighborhoods like the South Loop and developers often tout d [...]
Mountain of housing inventory headed for Chicago market
There are a whopping 11,000 new construction housing units currently in the pre-marketing stages of development and Chicago will see a huge amount of [...]
Lissner's real estate forecast for 2006
The guru of Chicago real estate trends, Gail Lissner, gave her annual forecast for the coming year at a Chicago Association of Realtors forum earlier [...]
Chicagoans in glass highrise houses
Glassy condo highrises are popping up all over downtown in the City of Big Shoulders, and it's interesting to look at possible reasons for the materia [...]
Pools make a splash in Chicago highrises
While fitness centers with "state-of-the-art equipment" are as mandatory as granite countertops in downtown highrises these days, swimming pools are l [...]
A Chicago condo by any other name
Image is everything in sales, so we probably shouldn't be surprised by the weird and wonderful names developers and ad-agency execs dream up to hawk c [...]
Oh what a feeling – Evanston condos
What do Evanston condo developers and Toyota have in common? Both look like they are desperately trying to unload end-of-year stock. If you always fan [...]
Chicago highrise offers winter balcony
This new real estate trend would have to be a strong seller among sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
The latest thing in highrise condos in [...]
Chicago developer awarded for contribution to city
In the eyes of the general public, real estate developers usually rate somewhere down near journalists and used-car salesmen in a ranking of occupatio [...]
The circus comes to the CHA
This priceless little gem comes from the vault of the Chicago Housing Authority. It happened four years ago at Washington Park Homes, a family develop [...]
Will $500,000 cabanas catch on in Chicago?
Cabanas - those tiny ocean and pool-side shacks better known as the love nests of Desperate Housewives-types and their compliant poolboys than as hot [...]
Fundraiser for CAR's Jennifer Maley
The Chicago Association of Realtors is sponsoring a fundraiser for its director of communications, Jennifer Maley, who was recently diagnosed with a b [...]
Rent and build equity on a Chicago condo
Renters who are thinking of buying but want to test out a neighborhood first have an interesting new option at the Lakeshore East development, a 28-ac [...]