Tag: Apartments
Higher rents, lower vacancies forecast for Chicago
Marcus & Millichap just released its Apartment Research Market Report for the second quarter of 2013. Free registration is required to access the [...]
K2 seen on the restaurant scene
K2, the new luxury apartment complex in the Fulton River District, is within easy walking distances of scores of restaurants, bars and clubs.
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The panoramic views from the roof of Hubbard Place
Late Friday afternoon I rode the construction elevator to the roof of Hubbard Place with Tom Black, who "directs the planning, design and construc [...]
Construction update: Catalyst, 111 W Wacker, River Point and more
Recent visits to the roof of Hubbard Place in River North and a penthouse at K2 in the Fulton River District gave me good vantage points to look a [...]
What’s up with these Yelp reviews of The Tides?
The reviews of The Tides apartment complex pictured above, posted four months apart, are almost word-for-word identical. Did the first reviewer's [...]
An itinerant YoChicago evening
If you've been following YoChicago, you know that our days aren't spent in the office. Yesterday evening's schedule called for four sponsored vide [...]
Your at-a-glance River North apartment list
Computer programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems re-price apartment rents frequently at Chicago's downtown high-rises. We ta [...]
See what’s for rent in the South Loop
The South Loop apartment market continues to be tight, with most buildings having only a few vacancies.
If you're looking to rent in the South [...]
Where rental rookies rate rave reviews
Have you ever wondered about the fact that complete novices at Chicago rental services almost always receive rave reviews on Yelp?
I think it' [...]
Lakeview East apartment high-rises with balconies
Lakeview East high-rises with balconies? Nope. There are eighteen high-rise apartment buildings in the neighborhood, but there's only one that has [...]
A smile and an umbrella at K2 Apartments
The lyrics of an old song tell you to "let a smile be your umbrella."
"Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rai [...]
A new dog park and upgraded vintage apartments in Lakeview East
Dog parks and outdoor space are standard fare in new downtown high-rises, but rare features in Lakeview East, one of the densest and most vibrant [...]
Visiting six new construction sites
A new 150,000 square foot Target store at the northwest corner of Division and Larrabee is slated to open later this year. An Oregon-based develop [...]
Lincoln Park & Lakeview East, a drive along Clark & Broadway
Clark Street in Lincoln Park and Broadway in Lakeview East are packed with shops, restaurants, bars, grocery stores and personal service establish [...]
An updated look at River North apartment rents
Computer programs similar to those used by airline reservation systems re-price apartment rents frequently at Chicago's downtown high-rises. We ta [...]
An updated South Loop apartment list
Without having done a detailed week-to-week comparison, my impression is that apartment vacancies are becoming scarcer in the South Loop. A number [...]
Rental deal of the day in Lakeview East
The mid-century modern buildings of the 60s and 70s have one great advantage over newer buildings: large apartments with excellent closet space.
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Video tours of two dozen Lakeview East apartment buildings
You can spend less than an hour seeing some of Lakeview East's best apartment buildings in YoChicago video tours. Or you can waste an hour at an a [...]
A concrete crowd at Catalyst
It's been nearly two weeks since the tower crane was completed at Catalyst, a 22-story, 223-apartment building under construction at 630 W Washing [...]
A panoramic view of the Arkadia site
The site of the new Arkadia apartment tower at 765 W Adams in the West Loop has been cleared and fenced, but no construction activity was visible [...]