Ripped from the headlines: Mixed-use plan for New City Y
Mixed-use plan for New City Y Trib
New TIF for Uptown / Edgewater Trib
New UIC dorm opens Trib
Campus architecture myths Flame
Sale of the week [...]
Quote of the day: homeowner "back to square one"
“We are having to start from scratch and rebuild for a down payment. We figured that a home is the place to build your wealth, and now it’s going on t [...]
Sum bigger than parts at architect David Hovey's Winnetka house
In a feature in Architectural Digest Magazine, local architect David Hovey, known for strikingly modern high-rises in Evanston as well as for the ne [...]
West Loop vs. South Loop – get in on Yo's Developer Smackdown
You can only truly assess a neighborhood in relief against other neighborhoods, and the most immediate and natural comparison point for the West Lo [...]
U.S. Dept. of Commerce: new-home sales up slightly in July
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports today (pdf) that in July sales of new single-family homes rose 2.8 percent from last month to a seasonally adj [...]
Quote of the day: extra-wide condos draw buyers
"The wider you build a unit, the more attractive it is. If you can build an extra-wide unit in just about any neighborhood that’s decent, you’ll sell [...]
Comment(s) of the day: 2 views of 18th and Michigan
"...In the next 5 years, my guess is appreciation will do little to counter the negatives of this desolate stretch, for me anyway. I've had owners com [...]
Lifestyle buyers step up as speculators flee investment-home market
The September issue of New Homes Magazine takes the temperature of Chicago's market for investment homes. Mostly gone are the rash of speculators "f [...]
More on West Winnemac in Uptown
New-construction condo buildings certainly aren't unheard of in Uptown, but as Mario Greco of Rubloff's Mario Greco Group pointed out in a recent co [...]
Ripped from the headlines: the Sun-Times looks at the new Cabrini
The new Cabrini Sun-Times
New building in and around Cabrini Sun-Times
Former Cabrini resident glad of relocation Sun-Times
South Loop Whole Food [...]
Bethel and Terra Firma planning mixed-use Kedzie GreenLife for East Garfield Park
We learned a few details yesterday about Kedzie GreenLife, a mixed-use, eco-friendly project with an affordable housing component. The development i [...]
740 Fulton part of new vibe in Fulton Market
The September issue of New Homes Magazine gives the backstory on 740 Fulton, the West Loop high-rise from The Thrush Companies:
In the mid-1990s, th [...]
And then there were 4 – West Loop loft roundup
We recently rounded up loft developments on the North Side and South Side and were surprised by how quickly loft development south of Cermak is starti [...]
New Hyde Park blog is pro-development
Perusing Gapers Block today, we came across what appears to be a pretty interesting new blog about Hyde Park. Hyde Park Progress is taking on what it [...]
Ripped from the headlines: Daley wants to clean up senior housing
Daley wants to clean up senior housing Sun-Times
Building explodes on South Side Trib
Lincoln Park house has an upstairs yard Chicago Mag
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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 [...]
Elston Avenue roundup: new construction from Belmont to Addison
Ah, Elston Avenue. The many lanes of whizzing traffic, the rambling industrial buildings, the new condos. Yep, condos are cropping up along this unl [...]
Neighbors Project party will encourage block parties
Neighbors Project, a nonprofit aimed at spurring people in their 20s and 30s to get involved in their local communities, is hosting a "Block Party Par [...]
How American Invsco sold 80 units in a night
We posted not long ago on American Invsco's one-night sales event for 200 North Dearborn, a high-rise conversion in the Loop, at which 80 units sold [...]
If Skybridge and Contemporaine had a love child…
We don't often find ourselves agreeing with Chicago Magazine, but we have to second most of the choices in its current feature, "10 Modern Master [...]