Category: Retail

CVS to anchor Aqua's retail space
It's tough enough getting developers to talk about the progress of their latest residential developments. It's almost impossible to get them to discus [...]

A tour of Klee Plaza at Six Corners
This interesting project - 64 condos in the heart of Portage Park on the Northwest Side - managed to completely escape our notice while it was under [...]

Mystery solved at shuttered Lincoln Park retail outlet
It's only obliquely related to new homes, but we couldn't resist this item.
New Homes Magazine contributor Dana Dubriwny snapped this photo of the [...]

Sales update: Contemporary corner condos available at 3255 North Paulina
Remember 3255 North Paulina? A few commenters liked its contemporary design back in 2006. It's all but finished at this point, and folks are already [...]

Developer pushing Ten East Delaware amenities
According to our extensive neighborhood mapping, Ten East Delaware will stand just inside the boundaries of River North. Prime Group CEO Michael Resch [...]

Sales update: 1 duplex left at 2038 W. Iowa St in Ukrainian Village
There's just a single duplex left at 2038 W. Iowa St., a six-home development in the heart of Ukrainian Village. Igor Dolgikh, of Jameson Realty Gro [...]
Spindle dodges bullet, again
I still remember when I first visited Chicago as a tourist. Friends in the area advised me: Don't go to Aurora and expect to find the Spindle. That ha [...]
More on the Hyde Park Co-Op's closing
Hyde Park Progress writes that the shareholders' buyout vote could aptly be termed a landslide. The vote margin (approximately 60 percent in favor ver [...]
Three developers still in the running for Oak Park 'superblock'
After starting with an initial pool of seven developers, Oak Park's village board narrowed the playing field down to just three candidates last week, [...]
New retailer, restaurant for Block 37
A Club Monaco clothing store and a new Lettuce Entertain You restaurant are among the latest tenants to sign deals at 108 North State Street, Joseph F [...]

Retail at Clark 36, other developments could spawn "Andersonville South"
We got word recently that sales have started at Clark 36, three adjoining buildings at 4860 - 4872 N Clark St. Construction is moving along, too (i [...]

Outdoors in Uptown: Lawrence and Broadway intersection hits critical mass
We expressed the other day how impressed we were by the changes on Wilson Avenue in Uptown, a stretch of road that even intrepid urbanites used to f [...]

Have new developments resurrected Howard Street?
Howard Street separates suburban Evanston from Chicago for a long stretch, which is part of why resurrecting it has been a real challenge. Planning [...]

Interesting layouts at Rogers Park conversion close to Charmers Cafe
Enroute to a Rogers Park open house at 7431 N Greenview Ave, YoChicago's Joe Zekas stopped by Charmers Cafe, part of a resurgent commercial corner i [...]

Bella Point Condominiums to bring 60 condos, 5 shops to Montclare
Deva Development is planning a row of condos and shops along Diversey Avenue, in the far Northwest Side neighborhood of Montclare. Bella Point Condo [...]

4 condos left at The Shops and Residences of Wicker Park
While we're on the subject of condos on major streets in Wicker Park, developer Joseph Freed and Associates is offering immediate deliveries at The [...]
RDM planning mixed-use project with 33 condos on Division Street in Wicker Park
We got word late yesterday that RDM Development is in the early planning stages for a mixed-use project at 1624 W Division St, a site currently occupi [...]

Corner of Lawrence and Damen rejuvenated in Ravenswood
The corner of Lawrence and Damen avenues, in Ravenswood, was "rough" just a few years ago, according to neighborhood resident and Chicago Home Estat [...]

Store for rent
A story in this month's New Homes looks at the retail situation in Lakeview, with a focus on how high rents are displacing Mom and Pops with nationa [...]

Lake View luxe: how condos are transforming the retail mix
The September issue of New Homes Magazine takes a look at how the condo boom has affected Lake View's bustling retail corridors:
Real estate prices [...]