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Echelon at K Station over 90 percent leased
This afternoon Joe and I headed over to the Fulton River District to check out Echelon at K Station, a 26-story, 350-unit rental building at 353 N Des [...]
Quote of the day: "Supersize me"
"The Baby Boomers are buying condos now and they don't want to downsize too much. They only want a few bedrooms, but they want them to be big and have [...]
Video vault: Pat FitzGerald, stealth architect
If you travel down to Printers Row on any Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Tuesday afternoon, you can visit Printers Corner at 140 W Polk St and Astoria [...]
Downtown sales go the wrong way in 4Q '08
Downtown condo developers posted a net loss of 253 sales in the fourth quarter of 2008, a result of canceled contracts outnumbering new sales, accordi [...]
Development roundup: Irving Park, south of Irving Park Road
A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon hunting for new condo developments in Irving Park. Because the neighborhood is so large, stretching from Addison [...]
Printers Corner offering six months free or rate buydowns on 19 remaining condos
With 80 percent of its homes sold and its condo association meeting for the first time next week, it would be easy to file Winthrop Properties' Printe [...]
Comment of the day: Albany Park's potential
Albany Park boomed this dcade in real estate values and was fueled by sucessful condo conversions close to three Brown Line stations at Francisco, Ked [...]
We like to watch: Views from Library Tower
Most downtown developments south of the river place a premium on their park and lake views. But when a giant dormitory stands between your 18-story [...]
Bluestone cuts prices on Fletcher Row homes
It's been a slow year for Fletcher Row, Bluestone Development's multi-phased townhouse development at 2424 W Fletcher Ave. Two homes have closed since [...]
We love lists: New Avondale condos and townhouses
A few months ago, during a discussion about the North Side, Garry Benson of Garrison Partners told me that in a down market like ours, real-estate a [...]
Development roundup: Two- and three-bedroom condos in West Lakeview
West Lakeview isn't a neighborhood that gets mentioned much anymore in real-estate listings, largely because anything within a half-mile radius of Ros [...]
Park 1000: From dustbin to wastebasket
We finally received our copy of Appraisal Research Counselors' Downtown Chicago Residential Benchmark Report summary, and already it's yielding some m [...]
We love lists: Hartshorne Plunkard's designs
After putting together a list on NewHomeNotebook.com of towers designed by Lucien Lagrange's architecture firm, I started looking through our high-ris [...]
RDM’s Trio sets new tone for West Loop living
Three years ago, RDM Development announced that Trio would change the tenor of the West Loop, particularly in the Fulton River District where the pr [...]
Sales update: Five homes left at Lakeshore East's Chandler and 340 on the Park
With all of the focus now directed at the 87-story Aqua, it's easy to forget that two of Lakeshore East's other residential towers, The Chandler an [...]
SoNo: Please don't let anyone move in
I took these pictures of SoNo earlier today, and I have to admit I was quite taken with the look of the building. I also couldn't help wondering [...]
Dazzling designs: New towers, mid-rises represent the cream of the architectural crop
By Phil Berger
The new millennium has been a good time for residential architecture in Chicago. After decades of banality, dictated either by devel [...]
Construction checkup: Silver Tower
A few blocks south and west of JFJ Development's Superior 110, another Hartshorne Plunkard-designed high-rise, Stonegate Development's Silver Tower [...]
Will Row2750 turn Lincoln Park on its ear?
Last night, we received a tip from Century 21 Sussex & Reilly agent Matt Leutheuser about Row2750, a new condo and townhouse project planned for [...]
Trio from Halsted Street
Our readers occasionally bring this up, and I have to agree: Wayman Street between Jefferson Street and Union Avenue feels like a glorified alleyway [...]