Author: barry pearce
If Skybridge and Contemporaine had a love child…
We don't often find ourselves agreeing with Chicago Magazine, but we have to second most of the choices in its current feature, "10 Modern Master [...]
High-rise of the day: Jahn's 600 North Fairbanks lean and serene in Streeterville
Helmut Jahn, whose cutting-edge work for years seemed to be appreciated everywhere but his adopted town of Chicago, is back on the local scene, fol [...]
Motor Row, Opera Lofts – "great conversions" but where's neighborhood headed?
Yesterday's loft roundup (yeeha, get along little loft!) sparked an interesting debate between Tracey and Jeff about two projects, Motor Row Lofts [...]
Sox fans take note – South Side lofts on the rise
When Tandem Developers sold out Union Lofts, at 941 W 35th St, in Bridgeport, back in 2004, it was the first loft condo development to be completed [...]
The view before the Landings on Southwest Side
Most Chicagoans who catch a glimpse of the aptly named Landings of Chicago condo project, which we posted on earlier as our "deal of the day," will b [...]
Ripped from the headlines: property tax hike in works?
Daley facing property tax hike? Sun-Times
Daley's tax levies Sun-Times
Smithfield plans Bucktown grocery Chicago Journal
New rendering for Dana hot [...]
Kimball Hill looks for Love in tough market
Kimball Hill Inc. has named Kenneth Love, 53, the company's new CEO, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business. Love, who has served as the vi [...]
Lake Michigan lecture at Edgewater Historical Society
Sure, you're probably a little sick of water right now, or at least the way we've had to experience it during the last few days, but that's no reason [...]
NAR: Speculators have left the building
National Associatoin of Realtors Senior Economist Lawrence Yun isn't exactly upbeat, but he is, predictably, more sanguine about the fundamentals of t [...]
Glimpsed from afar – River Bend's best side faces west
The Chicago skyline has changed dramatically during the last decade, and we're struck, as we walk around the greater downtown area, by the ways in w [...]
2 townhouse projects misnamed in far Northwest
In reviewing new-construction projects on the Northwest Side, we realized that we could only find six active townhouse developments. We posted on fo [...]
Contextual design of the day
Which facade has better texture -- Sonotheque's, 1444 W Chicago Ave, or Habana Libre's, 1440 W Chicago Ave? [...]
Townhouse projects follow river northwest
New Homes Magazine recently ran a feature on the ways in which the Chicago River has spurred residential building on the Northwest Side. We decided [...]
Mystery condo project identified as Clark 36
It's still a bit of a mystery to me why developers don't get their signs up sooner and keep them up somewhere, somehow at all new projects, but James [...]
Comment of the day: look, no bubble
"Still no bubble folks. Not here."
-- John commenting on our post about The Thrush Companies offering buyers the equivalent of 4 percent of their mor [...]
Have Uptown and Rogers Park traded places?
"It's interesting that the old diverse Uptown is purely listed as 'emerging high-income.' I've heard people say that Uptown and Rogers Park have sort [...]
Byron Rowhomes look the part
Speaking of Mangan Builders' historicism, I happened by the developer's Byron Street Rowhomes yesterday, at Byron and Ashland, and I have to say, not [...]
Construction buzzing on Ashland Avenue's mystery condo projects
North Ashland Avenue is a hive of new residential construction these days, and apparently, it's all selling incredibly well. That's the only expla [...]
Chicago loses a great friend in Alys Lavicka
Developer and preservationist Bill Lavicka is well-known to Chicagoans for his crusades, from working to save historic homes on the 1500 block of Wes [...]
US home sales fall, prices stable in June
Yo Joe touched off a rambunctious debate on the direction of home prices yesterday when he quoted Angelo Mozilo, the Chairman of Countrywide Financial [...]