Category: Video
McLean still sees potential of city development
In this segment from his interview with Yo's Joe Zekas, MCL Companies' Dan McLean outlines some of the reasons he continues to build and expand to o [...]
Video: ParkView's amenities and Park Homes
Last week, following his interview with developer Dan McLean, Joe Zekas paid a visit to ParkView, McLean's new 48-story, 280-unit high-rise at 505 N [...]
A Chicago story, MCL Companies’ Dan McLean, Part II
In this segment of our interview, MCL
Companies' Dan McLean talks about River East, some of the projects he has underway in other cities, and Chica [...]
A Chicago story, MCL Companies’ Dan McLean, Part I
In this segment of our interview McLean recounts his early days in the real estate business in Chicago, pioneering at the edge of Lincoln Park. [...]
ParkView, Chicago’s best new building
At the beginning of my interview with MCL Companies' Dan McLean I invited him to give a "sales pitch" for his recently-completed ParkView Condominium [...]
Dan McLean, Still potential in cities
In this segment of our interview, MCL Companies' Dan McLean outlines some of the reasons he continues to build and expand to other cities beyond Chic [...]
Dan McLean – no walled urban fortresses
It's safe to say that no single individual has had more impact on the course of development in the western stretches of Lincoln Park than MCL Compani [...]
Will the Chicago Spire be built?
Not likely, says MCL Companies' Dan Mclean.
If anyone should know, it's McLean. He's among the savviest, most experienced players in Chicago's tin [...]
Alta Vista Terrace: "The street of 40 doors"
This video is a slide show that Joe Zekas put together and posted on Yo about two years ago on Alta Vista Terrace (3800 North, 1050 West) in Lake View [...]
Lexington Homes, remixed
This is a first. We're used to people rating and commenting on our YouTube videos, but I don't think we've ever received a viewer-submitted edit bef [...]
A developer’s tips for home buyers – the short version
Earlier in the year I sat down for a wide-ranging conversation with Jeff Benach of Lexington Homes. Among other topics, we talked about Jeff's tips f [...]
Joewalking past three new Bucktown developments
Joe Askins of YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com struck out on his search for open houses this weekend, but he kept his camera rolling as he walke [...]
Joewalking past three Bucktown developments
My attempt at a Sales Center Sunday was a bust this weekend, but I did keep the camera rolling as I took a roundabout way home from Damen Street yes [...]
Joewalking in and around Park West (Part 2)
In the second half of his trek through Chicago's Park West neighborhood, Joe Askins of YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com tracks down more new and [...]
A Park West Joewalk (Part 2)
In the second half of my trek through Park West, I track down the converted four-plus-one LP 625 and then make my way to "Deming Row," home of sever [...]
A Park West Joewalk (Part 1)
You didn't think I'd walk around Park West without shooting some video, did you? As I took a walk around the North Side neighborhood to put together [...]
Joewalking in and around Park West (Part 1)
Joe Askins of YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com takes a stroll through the streets of Chicago's Park West neighborhood in search of new-construct [...]
Video: More Joewalking in Uptown
In the second half of my Joewalk through "East Uptown," I come across five more new-construction developments and rehabs between Argyle Street and F [...]
Video: Joewalking through "East Uptown"
Catch a glimpse of some of the new-construction and rehabbed condos I found in the eastern half of Uptown last week. In this video, I start off in t [...]
Sales Center Saturdays: Inside LV Lofts
Mark spent last Saturday hitting up sales centers and open houses on the North Side. One of the developments he visited was New Haven Homes' LV Loft [...]