Category: New construction
Old college jocks never die, they buy a loft in Chicago
Student dorm digs were never this cool. The former Saint Stanislaus College, just down from the Division el stop, is currently being converted into Th [...]
Battle of the highrises: Da Bears or Da Park?
If you were shopping around new highrise condo towers which vista would have the most appeal? A bird's-eye view of Soldier Field on game-day from high [...]
Draper and Kramer loses appeal on Gold Coast condo highrise
Developer Draper and Kramer saw its chances of building a 30-story condo highrise at 1320 North Lake Shore Drive slip further away today when the Illi [...]
The Walgreens amendment to the Chicago city charter
This just in from our man "The Bench" in Irving Park: When the Mobil station at the corner of Irving Park Road and Pulaski Road was bulldozed in late [...]
West Loop to get new condo highrise
Residents in the West Loop have been fending off highrise buildings in favor of lofts and mid-rises for some time now but there is always the exceptio [...]
Single-family homes slated for old Chicago iron company site
You know it now as the old site of the Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, but soon hundreds of people might be calling the stretch of land at 105th Stre [...]
Park Boulevard ground-breaking
Yesterday was just another Thursday to most people in Chicago, but it was a pretty big deal for former residents of Stateway Gardens, the Chicago Hous [...]
North Town Park gets the nod
If you thought the creation of North Town Village, which replaced the former Cabrini-Green public housing development, was a staggering transformation [...]
The lonely Victorian
Brick condo buildings will soon surround Kelly Kniewel's Victorian home on the 3100-block of North Sheffield Avenue. The block is transforming at ligh [...]
Park Boulevard mixed-income development to break ground
The mixed-income development Park Boulevard will break ground at West 35th Street near South Federal Street, on Thursday, the latest project in the ci [...]
Mountain of housing inventory headed for Chicago market
There are a whopping 11,000 new construction housing units currently in the pre-marketing stages of development and Chicago will see a huge amount of [...]
Lissner's real estate forecast for 2006
The guru of Chicago real estate trends, Gail Lissner, gave her annual forecast for the coming year at a Chicago Association of Realtors forum earlier [...]
Chicagoans in glass highrise houses
Glassy condo highrises are popping up all over downtown in the City of Big Shoulders, and it's interesting to look at possible reasons for the materia [...]
Pools make a splash in Chicago highrises
While fitness centers with "state-of-the-art equipment" are as mandatory as granite countertops in downtown highrises these days, swimming pools are l [...]
Oh what a feeling – Evanston condos
What do Evanston condo developers and Toyota have in common? Both look like they are desperately trying to unload end-of-year stock. If you always fan [...]
Chicago highrise offers winter balcony
This new real estate trend would have to be a strong seller among sufferers of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
The latest thing in highrise condos in [...]
Rent and build equity on a Chicago condo
Renters who are thinking of buying but want to test out a neighborhood first have an interesting new option at the Lakeshore East development, a 28-ac [...]
A moment of Zen at Chicago's Waterview Tower
Businessman Jon Butcher is planning the mother of all makeovers when he moves into his penthouse at Waterview Tower in 2008. We're not talking grades [...]
Palmolive dangling $50,000 bonus
If you happen to be browsing for a condo right now and wonder why your broker keeps steering you toward the $10.7 million penthouse in The Palmolive B [...]
Buy a condo, get a Vespa
From the world of real estate marketing, here's a novel incentive aimed at young home buyers. Condo developers have been targeting empty nesters with [...]