Category: Lofts
Blue-blooded Lincoln Park loft development 60 percent sold
There's nothing particularly regal-looking about Ashton Lofts, 1610 W Fullerton Ave, in Lincoln Park, but there's honest-to-goodness royalty behind th [...]
Terra cotta tile, brick detail in gem of a Rogers Park loft
Two-story loft buildings are rare in the current market, when bigger, often second-rate buildings are being converted, largely because the best stru [...]
New Homes Magazine names Odyssey Lofts Chicago's best new loft development
New Homes Magazine has named Odyssey Lofts Chicago's best new loft. "Odyssey Lofts, 775 W. Jackson Blvd., first grabbed our attention with the marke [...]
A slice of utopia in the Fulton Market District
We often hear about turf wars between residents, retailers and wholesalers in the Fulton Market District, as they vie for supremacy, but it's refreshi [...]
New PAC Lofts getting much-needed makeover in Bucktown
Workers are installing sleek new windows at PAC Lofts, 1735 N Paulina St, in Bucktown. The bubblegum-colored trim on the existing windows is leftove [...]
New Homes Magazine names Chicago's best new homes
Read it even before it's hot off the presses: the new issue of New Homes Magazine names Chicago's best new homes in the categories of high-rise, lof [...]
New West Loop loft condo conversion has duplex units with 23-foot ceilings
Ah, this is how lofts used to be, before everything and its brother started calling itself a loft: ceiling heights up to 23 feet, exposed timber beam [...]
Update: Locomobile Lofts sold out, new Lyonhart development on the way
We hope you weren't too revved up about the Locomobile Lofts we told you about yesterday: turns out buyers have already sped off (make the puns stop!) [...]
New Homes explores Chicago loft market
Since we're feeling lofty on this Thursday at Yo, check out the recent New Homes Magazine story on Chicago's loft market. Around two-dozen loft proje [...]
Four Locomobile Lofts left in Chicago's motor row
While we're on the subject of lofts today...Four units remain for sale at Locomobile Lofts, located at 2000 S Michigan Ave in Chicago's landmark Motor [...]
Old Citizens State Bank converts to lofts
Until the 1950s, it was a bank. Then it was a shoe store. Then a dance studio. Then a pawn shop. Now, the early-20th-century terra cotta building at 1 [...]
Off-Broadway loft project and theater company opening soon in Edgewater
The brick building that once housed an industrial laundry called Zengler's Cleaners at 5427 N Broadway St, in Edgewater, is being converted into the 2 [...]
Belgravia adding 11 new stories of condos to 7-story West Loop loft building
Talk about making the most of a site. Belgravia Group is adding 11 stories of new-construction condos to an existing seven-story loft building in the [...]
Loft of the day
This 5,500 square-footer in the West Loop carries an asking price of just $1.25M.
It's offered for sale through Koenig & Strey's Charlene Williamso [...]
Logan View Condominiums fills entire block of Logan Square
In the hands of Renzi Construction and Development, a dilapidated industrial building will get a second chance as Logan View Condominiums, a 78-unit d [...]
The Tailor at Jackson is sew hip
Last night Yo went along to the grand opening of The Tailor at Jackson, a West Loop loft development that we've told you about before.The 114-unit dev [...]
First-floor rentals can be worse than the garden apartment
We've railed on the problems that can plague garden apartments, but Beth and Frank tell us they're more nervous about security as they move from a gar [...]
Chicago loft is a hard cell
When this image flashed across our computer screens our first thought was that the old Joliet Correctional Center had gone condo, following the runawa [...]
Rogers Park conversions – from a crack house to a tire store
The last ingenious conversion project we saw in Rogers Park was the conversion of an old crack house at 1522 W Jonquil Terrace into the gorgeous Baybe [...]
Theater District Lofts continue rebuilding Winthrop
Yesterday we told you about the bargains at Edgewater Terrace on the 5900 block of once-notorious North Winthrop Ave. Uptown Real Estate looks to con [...]