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RDM's Trio embraces street, avoids Ugly Garage Syndrome with creative design
It is unusual to find a project that changes the tenor of a neighborhood, but RDM Development claims that its latest project, Trio, at 650 W. Wayman S [...]
Lakefront development big as Loop about to put South Chicago on map
It's hard to imagine that any of Chicago's 29 miles of lakefront would be available for development in 2005. It's even harder to believe that a lakefr [...]
Finding housing deals
Even a hot housing market has its share of bargains
Perhaps the heat index should be used to measure Chicago's housing market, which remains as hot as [...]
The softer side of West Loop living
As I headed south on Green Street one recent Tuesday evening to try a new West Loop restaurant, a pleasant flow of foot traffic stomped west on Madiso [...]
Chicago's best new homes 2005
The experts choose the top city developments of 2005
The most difficult choice for this year's New Homes Awards was in the category of best new highr [...]
Boom towns
Buyers are flocking to the mega projects that increasingly dominate downtown housing
In the coming decade, buyers of new homes in Chicago will be sho [...]
JMM building houses under $700k
When I first met Marla Mason and Mark Olshansky, the brother-sister team behind JMM Development, they were converting vintage apartments into condomin [...]
Park Millennium opens on Millennium Park
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 Par [...]
Chicago's hottest neighborhoods 2005
Housing prices in Chicago have risen rapidly during the last decade, but they have not risen evenly. While prices on average have climbed considerably [...]
The Return of the Loft
After a drought of several years, lofts are back, more stylish than ever.
There was a time, several years ago, when I never wanted to hear about anot [...]
Golfer's loss, renter's gain
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 w [...]
Bridgeport Village takes top award again
Bridgeport Village, a $75 million residential development in Bridgeport has won the Gold Key award for "Best Overall Urban Community" from the Home Bu [...]
Century of progress
Is thoughtful residential design gaining ground in Chicago?
Few cities are more obsessed with themselves than Chicago, and Chicagoans obsess about fe [...]
When is a townhouse a townhome?
Townhouse.
Seems like a perfectly good word, but at some point it must have struck the ears of Realtors as a little too cold and antiseptic. Brokers [...]
South Shore – the last lakefront refuge of the middle class?
Follow Lake Shore Drive as far south as you can, and then keep going. At 57th Street and the Museum of Science and Industry, the road begins to slow. [...]
Bridgeport Village offers 10 new homes
Snitzer Homes has unveiled 10 new single-family home designs that offer classic Chicago architecture and even more space than earlier models at Bridge [...]
Eclectic Albany Park balances diversity with development boom
Marla Mason remembers an Albany Park far different from the one home and condo buyers are flocking to today.
Mason, a pioneer developer in the famous [...]
Massive developments underway in emerging neighborhoods
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 s [...]
$1 million-plus market for new condominiums thrives in Chicago
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 days.
If you [...]
No little plans
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 [...]