Category: Building profiles
Maggot-mashing 101: A guide to renting in the South Loop
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for South Loop apartments, most of them touting the fewer than a dozen major apartment complexes in the South [...]
Plan Commission approves major redevelopment of Lake Meadows
The Plan Commission's approval of a mixed-use development across from Wrigley Field won all the headlines last week (more on that one later), but an [...]
A sunny morning tour of University Village with Realtor Gary Lucido
Yesterday Joe and I traveled south down Halsted to meet Realtor and Chicago Now blogger Gary Lucido outside home in University Village. Gary, who ha [...]
Habitat Company's Mark Segal, on succeeding two Chicago icons
The Habitat Company has changed the face of Chicago. Over the past 30 years, Habitat has developed more than 17,000 residential units and currently [...]
Meet Patricia, Chicago's first door-cierge
We stopped by 215 West Washington Friday for a first look at this new Loop apartment tower. 215 West just received its certificate of occupancy thro [...]
Yo's year: Whatever happened to Pure?
The Pure scandal was already in full swing by the beginning of 2009. It kicked off back in September 2008, when developer Salman Ibrahim absconded to [...]
Quote of the day: apartment absorption uncertainties
From Appraisal Research Counselors ("ARC") 3rd Quarter 2009 Downtown Chicago Residential Benchmark Report, commenting on prospects for downtown apartm [...]
Web presence: OK at K Station
Welcome to the another installment of our ongoing “Web presence” feature, in which we collect as many links as we can for one residential developme [...]