Category: High-rises
Construction checkup: One Museum Park
This will probably be the last construction checkup we post on Yo for One Museum Park, because it doesn't look like there's much more work to be done [...]
1600 Museum Park is topped off
While passing by Soldier Field and the Museum Campus on Lake Shore Drive this morning, I noticed that 1600 Museum Park appeared to be topped off, so [...]
Astoria Tower continues to climb
This has got to be one of the fastest-growing towers in Chicago. Located at 8 E 9th St in the Loop, Provence Development Group's Astoria Tower Residen [...]
Construction checkup: Aqua
Magellan Development's Aqua, 225 N Columbus Dr, from the 37th floor of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago. Jeanne Gang's building doe [...]
Solstice on the Park: A tale of two developers
While several planned condo developments around town are delaying the start of construction, and others seem to be postponed indefinitely, @properties [...]
More views of Superior 110
Since we can see Superior 110's western face from our office windows, that's usually the angle we get for our construction photos. As you can proba [...]
CMK’s South Loop tower a model of success
Design and value have been the watchwords of CMK Development ever since Colin Kihnke formed the company in 1995. While CMK fast became known for pus [...]
Photo update: Six North Michigan
For months we've been posting the same old rendering of Six North Michigan, a 120-unit condo conversion in the Loop. To remedy the situation, I rolle [...]
SoNo: Please don't let anyone move in
I took these pictures of SoNo earlier today, and I have to admit I was quite taken with the look of the building. I also couldn't help wondering [...]
A tour of Mondial in River West
I always think of Chicago's River West neighborhood as Bergerville.
Architect / developer Jack Berger moved there in 1979 and has since transformed [...]
Pure construction 95 percent completed
We haven't posted an update on Pure, 24 S Morgan St, in several months, not because we don't like it, but because we just haven't had much to report o [...]
Incentives working at Lexington Park Condos
Remember those incentives Chieftain Group rolled out a few weeks ago at Lexington Park Condominiums? The free parking for life and free gas for a year [...]
Museum Park Place South under construction
It has been under construction for about four months now, and we finally have some construction photos of Museum Park Place South, the newest high-ris [...]
Sales update: 75 units left at Astoria Tower
Provence Development Group's Astoria Tower Residences & Spa is currently under construction at 8 E 9th St in the Loop, and while we've written qui [...]
We love lists: Construction-free zones
With the release of Appraisal Research Counselors' latest report on the downtown condo market and some renewed conversation on here about Piedmont Gro [...]
Comparing Streeterville floor plans
I've always thought of Avenue East, the white and blue high-rise at left in the above photo, and 550 St Clair, the glassy high-rise at right, as twins [...]
Construction checkup: Silver Tower
A few blocks south and west of JFJ Development's Superior 110, another Hartshorne Plunkard-designed high-rise, Stonegate Development's Silver Tower [...]
Topped-off Trump gets new one-bedrooms
A construction crew topped off the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago this weekend, according to the Tribune. Right around the same time, [...]
Hear the crickets chirp at 9 West Erie
The scene at 9 W Erie St this morning was organized (or is that "orgonized"?), happy... and as quiet as a church mouse. Figuratively, at least - tho [...]
Construction checkup: Waiting for Catalyst
If everything goes as planned, this parking lot at 123 N Desplaines St will give way to Urban R2 Development's Catalyst sometime in the next year.
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