Category: Quote of the day
Quote of the day: hotel condos a risky investment
"From a personal standpoint, I just can't understand the economic justification for buying a hotel room that's gonna lose money. . .We like the amenit [...]
Quote of the day: modern design not "comfortable"
“This modern architecture that everybody talks about doesn’t correspond to the desire of the society we live in. A lot of people don’t find that comfo [...]
Quote of the day: Tunney targets over-development
"There's been some concern about development projects around the Clark and Addison area. Some have been gigantic, mixed-use projects. The alderman sug [...]
Quote of the day: Lucien Lagrange on the Lake Shore Athletic Club
"I think it’s the ugliest building on the street…it has small windows. It’s not elegant. The façade is not elegant. It looks like a prison. You driv [...]
Quote of the day: reconnect home values with the market rate
"If (the housing value boom) is over, the 7 percent will allow those home values to get reconnected with the market rate."
- Cook County Assessor Jim [...]
Quote of the day: how are parents supposed to know?
"There's no way in the world that a parent can tell what a kid is doing, even between the school and the house. The kid could spray paint a garage or [...]
Quote of the day: time running out on a fix for affordable housing
"It’s possible for government and nonprofits to figure out where the problem areas are, where the likely decline is and follow the increase in demand [...]
Quote of the day: three days of noise makes bad neighbors
"It's one thing to have three hours of music, but 39 hours?"
- Richard Ward, president of the New Eastside Association of Residents, complaining in t [...]
Quote of the day: make sure your home inspector checks common areas
"Home inspectors don’t typically look at common areas, even though that’s where the majority of a building’s problems occur. In my experience, that’s [...]
Quote of the day: housing commish on affordability
"The city has two challenges: rebuilding the most difficult neighborhoods in the city [while] promoting economic development in disinvested communitie [...]
Quote of the day: building big in Evanston
"We have to go up, but we don't have to go up to the clouds."
Evanston Mayor Lorraine H. Morton, when asked by Yo about proposed high-rise developmen [...]
Quote of the day: grand South Works plans malleable
"There is a sense with everybody that this is somewhat malleable."
-- Daniel McCaffery, president of McCaffery Interests on plans to build more than [...]
Quote of the day: Michigan Avenue is so over
"...Michigan Avenue is just another mall, with food courts and you’ve-seen-it-all-before goods. These days almost all of the stores are national chain [...]
Quote of the day: "up and going" from Woodlawn
"This whole Cottage Grove area, this is up and coming, as they say. I guess that means we up and going."
- Beauty Turner, an advocate for public hous [...]
Quote of the day: peace and quiet in the West Loop
"What I love about the West Loop is that it's quiet. It's a quiet neighborhood."
- David Chase, president and CEO of The Thrush Companies, and a 10-y [...]
Quote of the day: diversity of product helps sell large developments
"It's hard to have too much homogeneity. [Diversity] helps with sales, because you're constantly selling at different sales points. And it creates a p [...]
Quote of the day: developers should integrate great spaces into city
"What we as developers can do is design great places and integrate these spaces into the city well...giving people the opportunity for chance encounte [...]
Quote of the day: don't move in to your new-construction home too early
"Don't take possession in the building before it's 100 percent done, or you might end up fixing incompletes that the builder should have finished. I a [...]
Quote of the day – unconvincing victims
"Am I the only one who wonders how a person who borrows money he can't repay, buys a house he can't afford, and then stiffs his creditors, is allowed [...]
Quote of the day: put your money where your house is (not your SUV)
"If you're putting almost as much money into transportation as you are into housing, you're throwing money at depreciating assets, and the one asset t [...]