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Will pure lunacy result in pure hell at Bronzeville’s Rosenwald apartments?
Curbed recently took note of the issuance of a building permit for the $100M+ renovation of the Rosenwald Apartments at 47th St and Michigan Ave i [...]
West Loop’s Pure now almost purely rental
Back in December of 2009 we took a retrospective look at our coverage of Pure, a much-discussed failed condo turned rental at 24 S Morgan in the W [...]
Grand jury: Pure was a Ponzi scheme
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury indicted the dev [...]
Yo's year: Whatever happened to Pure?
The Pure scandal was already in full swing by the beginning of 2009. It kicked off back in September 2008, when developer Salman Ibrahim absconded to [...]
Revisiting Pure in Chicago’s West Loop
Joe Askins of YoChicago.com walks past Pure, 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop. Pure started life as a condo project, but its developer disappeared sho [...]
Buying no longer an option, as Pure goes rental
When Joe looked through the Cook County records in May, he found that only four buyers had closed on their homes at Pure, the 67-unit residential de [...]
Pure – deal or no deal?
Pure, 24 S Morgan St, is shaping up to be a classic shaggy dog story. See the comments on our most recent post.
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Sales update: Big reductions afoot at Pure
In March we watched Roszak / ADC lower the prices of its Vetro condos across the board by about 19 to 25 percent. Now it looks like Pure might just [...]
With bank backing, Pure moves forward
When news broke in September that Salman Ibrahim, principal of Sunrise Equities, skipped town, a big question mark was hung atop Pure, the 67-unit con [...]
Follow-up: Pure moving ahead without Sunrise
After a week of troubling news reports, you'd be forgiven for thinking that things were falling apart for Pure, the new 67-unit high-rise at 24 S Morg [...]
Journal: Where is Pure's developer?
The Chicago Journal and its partners must have declared this "Disappearing Developer Week," by the looks of their latest issues. For example, you ma [...]
Pure construction 95 percent completed
We haven't posted an update on Pure, 24 S Morgan St, in several months, not because we don't like it, but because we just haven't had much to report o [...]
Pure living in the West Loop
How does an up-and-coming developer stand out in a neighborhood filled with new condominiums? For Sunrise Equities, the answer was simple: Choose a [...]
Pure living in the West Loop
How does an up-and-coming developer stand out in a neighborhood filled with new condominiums? For Sunrise Equities, the answer was simple: Choose a [...]
Irish buyers get first crack at Pure2o in Uptown?
Remember the Pure2o teaser that went up in Uptown a couple weeks back? Well, a little digging uncovered a development profile on Castleroc Estates' We [...]
Another way of looking at Emerald and Pure
I didn't include floor plans for the two-bedroom condos at Emerald and Pure in Wednesday's comparison post, but I wanted to give readers a chance t [...]
Compare and contrast: Two-bedroom condos at Emerald and Pure
"Great deal! A 'free' scooter and 'free' parking space for your overpriced condo that's almost $100/ SF higher than anywhere else around it! Sign me u [...]
Teaser: Pure2o sign goes up in Uptown
Uptown Update has an item on the new sign for Pure2o - as in H2O - that's been erected at Clarendon and Leland avenues. The sign hints at a developmen [...]
Sales update: Pure reaches 40-percent sales mark
Sales at Pure, 24 S Morgan St, have reached 40 percent, according to Stino Milito of @properties. If my math's correct, that means about 40 of the bui [...]
Pure ditches online community, alters unit count
Pure - under construction at 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop - will no longer include an online community for residents and will have seven fewer co [...]