Category: Renovation
Plymouth developers plan to restructure loan, fight foreclosure suit
Everything looks rosy for Walton on the Park, which received a $135 million construction loan to finance the first tower's groundbreaking, but we can' [...]
Saved from the wrecking ball: Lake Shore Athletic Club
Remember the flap about the Lake Shore Athletic Club? Fifield Companies' proposal to tear it down and build luxury condos on the site sparked protes [...]
The Powerhouse Building: Parking and below
Architects Jim Plunkard and Paul Alessandro take YoChicago's Joe Zekas and Phil Berger into the vast depths of the Powerhouse Building, a landmark s [...]
Comment of the day: props for a restoration job
"I was once Director of The Harvard School, and applaud the efforts to keep some elements of that wonderful old building and its history. An amazing p [...]
Modern luxury, ancient nature and selling homes
The Asian longhorned beetle took its toll on trees in the historic eastern slice of Ravenswood beginning in the late '90s. The recent storms also to [...]
Wicker Park house wins Landmark Award
A restored limestone house at 1555 N Hoyne Ave in Wicker Park (.pdf) is among the winners of the Chicago Landmark Awards for Preservation Excellence [...]
Pullman rowhouse among winners of preservation award
A Pullman rowhouse we posted about not long ago has snagged a Chicago Landmark Award for Preservation Excellence. The property, at 605 E 107th St, is [...]
1400 Lake Shore Drive: updating a landmark
The September issue of New Homes Magazine takes a look at the renovations for RDM Development's 1400 Lake Shore Drive, a 1927 high-rise with a lobby [...]
A tale of two graystones on North Lakewood
They just don't make 'em like that anymore - except they sorta did at 3733 N Lakewood Ave (pictured left above). At a quick glance this single-fami [...]
Landmark conversion at 1400 Lake Shore Drive adds fitness center
Residents of the 398-unit conversion at 1400 Lake Shore Drive recently got a new 2,700-square-foot fitness center, according to Karen Goodman Cable, [...]
The Flats on LaSalle 60 percent sold, agent says
For those who dream of brushing elbows with the denizens of the tony Gold Coast but fear they can't produce the cash for a condo in the neighborhood [...]
We like to watch: Marshall Field Jr. Mansion
When we last posted on the construction underway at the Marshall Field Jr. Mansion at 1919 S Prairie Ave, a debate erupted about historic preservati [...]
Cheetah Gym clawing its way to Logan Square
A new location of Cheetah Gym could open at 2618 N Milwaukee Ave in the Logan Square Boulevards District by the end of the year.
David Wilshire, pres [...]
Daley alma mater to turn landmark theater green
Mayor Richard M. Daley recently introduced an ordinance that would clear the way for his alma mater, De La Salle Institute, 3455 S Wabash Ave, to pu [...]
Lincoln Park's Clybourn Green to start marketing in June
Clybourn Green — an 18-unit rehab with an eco-friendly slant at 2401-2409 N Clybourn Ave — goes on the market June 15.
This is the first green projec [...]
Block of the day: Indiana Avenue south of 33rd Street
We posted recently on some of Bronzeville's seedier spots. The 3300 block of Indiana Avenue, nearby in The Gap neighborhood, appears to be a very di [...]
Project update: Sheridan Tower in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood
Deliveries for Sheridan Tower, a 22-story apartment conversion at 2930 N Sheridan Road, begin next week. The last time we posted about the developme [...]
We like to watch: The Catalpa in Andersonville
As Andersonville has gone increasingly upscale, condo conversions have proliferated on the side streets surrounding its central Clark Street commerc [...]
We like to watch: true value in Humboldt Park
Given that new-construction single-family homes can fetch upwards of $700,000 in the Humboldt Park area, resales like this rehabbed frame house at 183 [...]
A home inspector weighs in on lousy lumber, faulty flashing and other new-construction woes
In New Homes Magazine's May issue, home inspector Tom Corbett of Tomacor, Inc. shares his recent experiences inspecting properties on Chicago's mid S [...]