3/28/05
When I first met Marla Mason and Mark Olshansky, the brother-sister team behind JMM Development, they were converting vintage apartments into condominiums in Albany...
3/28/05
In what promises to be one of the city’s most prominent active condo conversions, Centrum Properties and MCZ Development have started sales at the...
3/15/05
Housing prices in Chicago have risen rapidly during the last decade, but they have not risen evenly. While prices on average have climbed considerably...
2/15/05
After a drought of several years, lofts are back, more stylish than ever. There was a time, several years ago, when I never wanted...
1/31/05
The golfer’s loss apparently is the renter’s gain at Lakeshore East, a new downtown development where the 46-story Shoreham apartment tower recently was topped...
12/13/04
Bridgeport Village, a $75 million residential development in Bridgeport has won the Gold Key award for “Best Overall Urban Community” from the Home Builders...
10/15/04
Is thoughtful residential design gaining ground in Chicago? Few cities are more obsessed with themselves than Chicago, and Chicagoans obsess about few things more...
9/15/04
Townhouse. Seems like a perfectly good word, but at some point it must have struck the ears of Realtors as a little too cold...
9/6/04
Follow Lake Shore Drive as far south as you can, and then keep going. At 57th Street and the Museum of Science and Industry,...
9/3/04
Snitzer Homes has unveiled 10 new single-family home designs that offer classic Chicago architecture and even more space than earlier models at Bridgeport Village,...
8/6/04
Marla Mason remembers an Albany Park far different from the one home and condo buyers are flocking to today. Mason, a pioneer developer in...
6/16/04
Vacant land for future residential development is abundant on Chicago’s Near South Side and Near West Side, and with the economy picking up, experts...
4/16/04
Whether you have a paltry $1 million to spend, or as much as $16 million, Chicago’s luxury condominium buyers have plenty to ogle these...
4/15/04
Buyers drawn to extra amenities at city’s booming mega-projects For a while there, residential development in central Chicago seemed to be going the way...
4/9/04
The 3.5-acre peninsula on the northern edge of the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan was christened DuSable Park back in 1987...
2/15/04
Builders to focus on deals, remaining units in ’04 Buyers of new homes were cautious in 2003, taking their time and hunting for the...
9/6/03
The new French restaurant, Bistro Campagne, uses organic products and flies in fresh fish from Pierless Fish, on the East Coast. It’s specialties include...
8/22/03
There’s a cherished half-century-old photo on my wall at home in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood. In the 8-by-10-inch sepia-tone photo, a cocky, bare-chested 9-year-old...
6/6/03
Lula Café was nearly full at lunchtime, but about half of the tables were taken by people eating alone. Some were working on crossword...
2/15/03
The “City of Big Shoulders” looks as if it’s about to flex its development muscles – again. Seven major new residential and mixed-use developments...