11/10/14
Catalyst is a 19-story, 223-unit apartment building with ground-floor retail space and 161 on-site parking spaces. Catalyst is...
7/11/14
Yesterday evening I met a member of the leasing staff at Catalyst who told me that move-ins at the new West Loop building have...
4/7/14
I was at K2 Apartments late Saturday afternoon for a video shoot and wandered around the area for a look at some of the...
3/12/14
Late in December we made the rounds of the new apartment projects underway in the West Loop. On Monday we took an updated look...
2/5/14
We checked in yesterday on five of the new apartment projects planned or underway in the West Loop. The site of a new 15-story,...
2/4/14
We define Chicago’s “near west” neighborhoods to include the West Loop, Fulton River District and River West. You’ll find all of your major apartment...
1/6/14
Crain’s Chicago Real Estate Daily reported last Friday that developer Dan Moceri had secured a $37.5 million construction loan for a 15-story, 198-unit apartment...
12/30/13
While the large new apartment projects are the focus of attention, a number of out-of-the-limelight infill projects are quietly adding a significant number of...
12/16/13
The West Loop is currently Chicago’s highest-energy neighborhood, with dozens of apartment, office, hotel and restaurant developments currently in progress. I stopped by last...
11/13/13
Last week Curbed served up views of Catalyst from street level and from within the 223-unit apartment tower that recently topped out in the...
10/28/13
Within the past few days we’ve stopped by a few of the many sites where new apartments are under construction in downtown Chicago. The...
10/3/13
It appears that Catalyst, 630 W Washington, will have the first-mover advantage in attracting new renters to the West Loop next year. The building...
9/18/13
In the course of a typical month YoChicago stops at 100s of places in dozens of Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. We don’t write about...
7/15/13
Recent visits to the roof of Hubbard Place in River North and a penthouse at K2 in the Fulton River District gave me good...
6/17/13
When we looked in on Catalyst in early April drilling rigs were sinking the caissons for the apartment tower’s foundation. The 22-story building, when...
4/9/13
Marquette Companies has begun construction on Catalyst, 630 W Washington in the West Loop. When complete the 22-story building will encompass 223 apartments, 175...
4/29/11
Lagrange lives! Over and over and over again, developer Gary Rosenberg has insisted that his Catalyst high-rise would get built. In February 2010, after...
2/24/10
Can’t say I saw this one coming. Developer Gary Rosenberg says he’s found $100 million to build Catalyst, the 220-unit tower planned for the...
12/15/09
Our file cabinets (real and virtual) are filled with all sorts of renderings and sales materials, some for projects long since finished, others for...