Tag: Downtown Loop
Lender puts a stamp of success on K2
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reported yesterday that GE Capital Corp had provided a $110 million refinancing loan for K2, a new luxury apartm [...]
St James Cathedral’s curious address plaque
You may have walked past St James Cathedral many times without ever having noticed the plaque on the building just east of the corner of Wabash an [...]
Alta slashes rents in Fulton River District
Yesterday morning Alta at K Station sent an email to brokers announcing steep discounts on the cost of renting at the two-tower, 848-unit project [...]
A peek inside the new Presidential Towers
I visited Presidential Towers (PT) last week in the company of David Scharfenberg, who became the General Manager of the West Loop property just s [...]
Is Grand Plaza feeling heat from new buildings?
AMLI River North and Hubbard Place, two new rental towers that recently opened in River North, added a total of 877 new apartments to a market tha [...]
A video look inside Old Town’s best apartments
1225 Old Town is a new boutique high-rise at 1225 N Wells St in Chicago's pedestrian-friendly Old Town neighborhood.
1225 has a full complement [...]
The annual doggie dip at Echelon luxury apartments
Residents at Echelon, a luxury apartment tower in the Fulton River District, have year-round access to a pet-friendly area in the park next to the [...]
An aerial view of North Streeterville apartment towers
Late last week we published a helicopter view of apartment towers in the southern part of Streeterville, with links to our expanding set of detail [...]
A serene private park at a Gold Coast mansion
The historic residence at 1547 N Dearborn Pkwy in Chicago's Gold Coast was designed by August Fiedler in 1891. It boasts more than 18,000 square f [...]
MLS-listed downtown rentals at 30-month high
There were 1,040 homes and condos listed for rent as of yesterday in the 14 downtown ZIP Codes that we track.
That's a 35% increase in the number o [...]
A particularly poopy park
Montgomery Ward Park is just west of our River North offices, and I've visited there frequently. It's a popular spot in a park-poor neighborhood. [...]
The grandest yard in the Gold Coast
A private yard the size of the one pictured above is an almost unimaginable treasure in Chicago's Gold Coast. The south yard of 1547 N Dearbor [...]
West Loop construction update – Catalyst
It appears that Catalyst, 630 W Washington, will have the first-mover advantage in attracting new renters to the West Loop next year.
The b [...]
A helicopter map of Streeterville apartments
On 9/11 last year, we circled downtown Chicago multiple times by helicopter. Our goal was to capture useful images of virtually every building in [...]