Tag: Apartments
Another rental service trawls for suckers
We've posted repeatedly about the perils of filling out an online rental application. Supplying your Social Security Number and other personal informa [...]
Fulton River District’s Trio Park appears complete
There's a decent-sized park, complete with a dog area and playground, adjacent to Echelon at K Station.
The part of the Fulton River District [...]
A rooftop view from K2 at K Station
A week rarely goes by without my visiting at least one Chicago rooftop.
Yesterday I rode the construction elevator to the top of K2 at K Stati [...]
Ken Derry rides the crane down at K2
The views from K2 at K Station are great, but they don't compare with the views from high above the Trump Tower.
Ken Derry operated one of the [...]
Another apartment tower moves forward in River North
Yesterday's email newsletter from Alderman Brendan Reilly provided a progress report on a new 25-story development at 220 W Illinois St that will [...]
Crane coming down, paint going on at K2 at K Station
The dismantling of the tower crane is one of the major milestones in the construction of a high-rise building. It's a sign that the heavy-lifting is o [...]
Tour a new model apartment at the South Loop’s Park Michigan
Park Michigan, the sleek international-style apartment tower at Michigan Ave and Roosevelt Rd, boasts an enviable South Loop location that affords [...]
Is work imminent on South Loop apartment site?
Last February, when AMLI Residential announced its plans for two 11-story buildings with a total of 398 apartments on the southwest corner of Clar [...]
Still no signs of new retail at the Roosevelt Collection
It's been 10 months since developer Dan McCaffery announced plans for the "full-fledged construction on the main plaza at Roosevelt Collection:"
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YoChicago’s most popular rental neighborhoods
Where do Chicagoans want to rent? Perhaps the best answer to that question comes via Google Analytics, which taps a database of intentions populat [...]
Another apartment tower proposed for West Loop
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that developer Enrico Plati is proposing to build 240 to 320 apartments on a site currently used fo [...]
New apartments slated for River North
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that Vancouver-based Onni Group has acquired two River North sites and plans to develop apartments [...]
Micro-apartments as an alternative to roommates
Back in July New York's Mayor Bloomberg launched a competition to design and build "Micro-Units," small apartments adapted to "how New Yorkers liv [...]
A video tour of Old Town’s newest apartments
The recently-completed 1225 Old Town, 1225 N Wells St in Old Town, features studio, convertible, one-, two- and three-bedroom luxury apartments.
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Spacious Lakeview East apartments with private balconies
The 14-story high-rise at 441 W Oakdale in Lakeview East has spacious, updated studio and one-bedroom apartments with an amenity that's unusual in [...]
1225 Old Town’s extensive amenities
1225 Old Town, a newly-opened apartment tower at 1225 N Wells St, has an extensive amenities package. It's stylish, functional, social -- and unus [...]
Seventeen17 apartments in Evanston – major URL marketing fail?
My tendency, and I suspect the tendency of many, is to type the name of an apartment project followed by ".com" when I don't know its URL, rather [...]
The CHA’s Britton Budd apartments in Lakeview East
The Chicago Housing Authority operates a number of seniors' housing projects that receive little attention.
One of those projects began its li [...]
Updated apartments in a classic Lakeview East location
Planned Property Management, one of Chicago's largest landlords, has three modern mid-rise buildings on Melrose in Lakeview East: 450, 537 and 544 [...]
The ceremonial groundbreaking at 73 East Lake
It's often the case that the ceremonial groundbreaking for a new high-rise takes place well after construction has begun.
Site work at 73 East [...]