Category: High-rises
One Museum Park West 70 percent sold
Next up in my string of Museum Park updates is the latest on One Museum Park West, the 53-story high-rise going up... well... west of One Museum Park. [...]
Sales update: 16 one- and two-bedrooms at 1400 Museum Park
Despite all of my trips to the South Loop this year, I haven't once come back with a picture of 1400 Museum Park. It's been a year since we've posted [...]
Oliva: Walton on the Park benefits from neighboring towers, Museum Park traffic
I spent about 20 minutes this morning talking to Coldwell Banker agent Ralph Oliva, whose team oversees sales for The Enterprise Companies' various do [...]
Trump, Kardas style
The higher the Trump International Hotel and Tower gets, the more we tend to take pictures of the place it has claimed in the Chicago skyline. Durin [...]
Park proximities
There's rarely a time when tourists aren't milling around Millennium Park and Grant Park, but it's safe to say that there'll be a few more out-of-to [...]
Homes on the horizon
The real-estate downturn of the past year has affected every type of new-construction project and gut rehab within Chicago’s city limits, and the hi [...]
Bluewater 5440 to offer a variety of floor plans
When Joe and I toured the sales center of 5430 Sheridan in Edgewater earlier in the week, we took a moment to speak with sales agent Tina Macek about [...]
MCL Companies' park promise
There's been some groaning on Yo over the years over the large, ugly edifices that parking structures create at street level. Why not just bury the pa [...]
Sales update: Twenty left at Printers Corner
More than three-quarters of the homes at Printers Corner have sold, leaving only 20 one- and two-bedroom condos scattered throughout the 17-floor buil [...]
Buyers enjoy freedom of choice at sleek South Loop condos
Once in a while, everything goes your way.
That was the feeling at New West Realty when the company purchased the land at 1555 S Wabash Ave. in the [...]
Superior at LaSalle the new jewel in River North's crown
The stretch of LaSalle Street from Lincoln Park to the heart of the Loop ranks just behind Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue as one of the city’s c [...]
Sales update: Eight condos left at 600 North Fairbanks
Anyone who wants the distinction of owning a new home in the Helmut Jahn-designed 600 North Fairbanks has eight chances left, according to sales agent [...]
Library Tower's first move-ins to begin next week
We haven't managed to post a construction update on Yo for over a year, but it sounds like Lennar Urban's Library Tower in Printers' Row is doing just [...]
Change of plan for Park 1000?
Construction timetables have been drawn up and thrown out for Renaissant Development's Park 1000 over the past couple years, and still the planned 40- [...]
Sales update: 51 condos left at Legacy at Millennium Park
What we really need is a construction update for Mesa Development's Legacy at Millennium Park. The first 30 of high-rise's 72 stories are up and are e [...]
Sales update: Lincoln Park 2520 past the halfway point
We've had surprisingly little to report about Lincoln Park 2520 over the past few months, so when reader David recently asked for an update about the [...]
Mondial sales at 33 percent
Construction on Mondial at 900 W Huron St in River West is pushing forward. Jim Murrin from Koening & Strey GMAC Real Estate tells me that contrac [...]
Sales update: 22 left at Avenue East
The backward sales trend continues at Avenue East in Streeterville. Whereas in September there were 15 available units, and in March there were 20, no [...]
SoNo tower flying SoLo for now
Does this tower look lonesome? Maybe just a little. Sometime next year it should have a twin, but for now it's a solitary giant.
I spoke to an agent [...]
The view from Aqua's amenities deck
These are a few of the photos that I took when I visited the construction site for Magellan Development's Aqua at Lakeshore East last month. The photo [...]