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Panorama-rama!: Sweeping stills from Aqua
I'm amazed at how rarely Aqua shows up in my downtown panoramas. Whether I shoot an arc from Buckingham Fountain, the Shedd Aquarium, The Legacy at [...]
ParkView and the scene at River East
Mike Maier's the sales manager for the MCL Companies' ParkView Condominiums high-rise in the River East section of Streeterville - and he lives ther [...]
Why a family chose a ParkView condominium
I'm so used to hearing scripted sales pitches that it's nice to hear a buyer explain why she put down money at a new development. Here, Joe Zekas fo [...]
Touring the Chicago Model City
As a part of the year-long celebration commemorating Daniel Burnham's 1909 civic plan for Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has unveiled a [...]
Touring Chicago on a miniature scale
As a part of the year-long celebration commemorating Daniel Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has unveiled a scale [...]
Streeter Place gearing up for August move-ins
Streeter Place, the 53-story, 480-unit rental tower at 353 E Ohio St in Streeterville has been topped off and is getting ready for Aug. 1 move-ins, ac [...]
Ten homes left at Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza
Sales are finally winding down at The Fairbanks at Cityfront Plaza, which completed construction back in the fall of 2007. According to sales manager [...]
What’s new at 600 Lake Shore Drive?
Carmen Krushas of Belgravia Group gives the YoChicago.com staff an update on 600 Lake Shore Drive, the new Pappageorge / Haymes-designed condominium [...]
What's new at 600 Lake Shore Drive?
Near the end of her visit to the Yo offices on Friday, Carmen Krushas gave us updates on all of Belgravia Group's new-construction projects. Up firs [...]
2009 Good Neighbor Awards: Loop / downtown and North Side winners
Tomorrow I'm attending the Chicago Association of Realtors' Good Neighbor Awards ceremony, where 26 new residential developments will be honored for " [...]
Reductions roundup: Cuts at three high-rises
If you took a break from Yo over the past week, you might have missed our posts on these recent price reductions at three downtown towers:
600 North [...]
"First-ever" price reductions at 600 N Fairbanks
Deliveries began at 600 North Fairbanks in November 2007, and like many large projects around the city, it's been a slow march to the finish line si [...]
A closer look at ParkView's 01 tier
When Joe Zekas visited MCL Companies' ParkView, 505 N McClurg Ct, in December, he shot some video in unit 2403, a three-bedroom / 2.5-bath condo on th [...]
600 North Fairbanks, Metropolitan Tower, Joffrey Tower earn downtown awards
Mark mentioned yesterday that MCL Companies' ParkView was a recent recipient of a 2009 Friends of Downtown award for Chicago's Best Open Space. I chec [...]
MCL's ParkView collects Friends of Downtown and construction industry awards
The awards are rolling in for ParkView this spring, beginning with a Home Builder Association of Greater Chicago award last fall, and another from the [...]
Living never looked so good for The Peshtigo
"The data speaks for itself," a spokesperson for The Peshtigo told a Crain's reporter who was hunting for a statement in January on the proposed Str [...]
Avenue East's model and common amenities
For this second video from my recent visit to Avenue East, 160 E Illinois St, Casey Ebel from Equity Marketing Services gave me a tour of an east-faci [...]
A competition's-eye view of 550 St Clair
"Please don't let anyone move in" was the title of a Yo post written by Joe Zekas a few months ago regarding SoNo, Smithfield Properties' 28-story hig [...]
Sales update: 15 left at 550 St Clair
Back in December, we reported that Sutherland Pearsall Development had lowered the prices on the 32 remaining condos at 550 St Clair, the 112-unit hig [...]
Prices cut by 10 to 20 percent at Avenue East
Change is in the air at Avenue East, the 133-unit high-rise at 160 E Illinois St in Streeterville. For most of 2008 sales figures were at a standstill [...]