Category: New construction
Gammonley plans high-rise @ River North
No sooner are we finished ranting about the @ in @properties (see below post), when we realize a new development has jumped on the @ bandwagon. The G [...]
House of many gables rising in Ravenswood Manor
We noticed this showy little number going up in Ravenswood Manor, at Leland and Virginia, on the Chicago River. The builder, Orren Pickell, is known [...]
Downtown housing volume rose 67% in 15 years
Some numbers from a new housing report just caught our collective eye. In 1990, downtown Chicago had about 48,000 housing units, according to housing [...]
The other information superhighway
If you're searching for a new home but your Internet connection's down, boot up the computers in your car and hop on to the original information sup [...]
Downtown Palatine – more than just a great place to park
It's been a while since we were in downtown Palatine (ok, some of us had never been there), and we were curious just how much of the much-touted dow [...]
Chicago real estate TV
Here's a good way to spend your Sunday mornings: Fox TV (WFLD) is screening Metroscene TV, a 13-part lifestyle series on Chicago real estate and archi [...]
A Chicago developer who actually keeps high-rise buyers informed
Cruising the 'net, we spotted something at the Web-site for the new-construction high-rise development The Superior at LaSalle, 150 W Superior St, tha [...]
New Museum Park highrises sell 50% of their condos within days
We knew the Museum Park development of highrises in the South Loop was hot. But this hot?
The new 1600 Museum Park opened sales over the weekend and [...]
Dramatic price rise in Chicago condo market
We mentioned last week that new-construction condo prices are rising as the cost of construction and land acquisiton increases, but here are some figu [...]
Let there be light at South Loop highrise Vetro
We're intrigued by the design of the units at the upcoming South Loop project Vetro. Architect and developer Roszak/ADC has taken inspiration from the [...]
Sales opening at 1600 Museum Park
But wait, there are more Museum Park surprises coming your way. Field Museum is going condo.
OK, early April Fool's Day joke. But seriously now, sale [...]
One Museum Park's evil twin
Just when we thought the South Loop's Museum Park campus couldn't get any bigger, developer The Enterprise Companies unveils the new, confusingly name [...]
Friday, Friday is why-oh-why-oh-why day
Why can't a bird eat an elephant? Why oh why oh why?
Chicago's Planning Commission has signed off on a 245-unit development for an 8-acre site at 250 [...]
First-floor suites not just for oldsters
It's not just older home buyers who want master suites on the first floor, according to Concord Homes, a subsidiary of Lennar Corp. Two of the four [...]
Chicago condos are shrinking
It's getting more expensive to build a condo these days, we're told. Construction costs have gone up because of a worldwide shortage of things like co [...]
A Packer invades Soldier Field
Mike Wier is one brave developer. Wier, who sits on the board of the Green Bay Packers football team, is heading up the new Casablanca Lofts project a [...]
340 on the Park construction update
The 340 0n the Park development, an ultra-luxury highrise, is slowly taking shape over at Lakeshore East. [...]
Loop real estate – better odds than an Indiana casino
Now we know what we should have been doing two years ago - plonking down money on a highrise condo in the Loop.
The median price for condos has leapt [...]
Young skaters need a facility on the New East Side
What do you do when you are a teenager who enjoys skateboarding but you live in a downtown highrise, the sport is prohibited in the surrounding street [...]
Lakeshore East starting to look like a neighborhood
How do you turn a collection of highrises into a community?
Add a park. It seems to be working at Lakeshore East, the new mixed-use development betwe [...]