Tag: Downtown Loop
Skyline views from the neighborhoods – and Skokie
You can find surprisingly good views of Chicago's skyline in places where you aren't expecting to find them. Start with the view above, which stre [...]
The views from the West Loop
The Loop at dusk, viewed through the lens of Michael Kardas.
The West Loop doesn't rank high on the list of downtown Chicago neighborhoods with [...]
Views of Grant Park and Millennium Park
Grant Park is walled-in on three sides by high-rise apartment, condo and office buildings, many of which offer sweeping, forever-uninterruptible ( [...]
Views of the beaches at Oak Street and North Avenue
The eastern views from some Lake Shore Drive high-rises might not be very inspiring in the dead of night, but they can be endlessly interesting on [...]
New apartment Fitz and starts
FitzGerald Associates' email newsletter arrives with the subject line "All the News That's Fitz," making the architectural firm a fit target for h [...]
Quote of the day – usable rooftop surfaces fundamental to modernism
Several scaffolds and teams of workmen were hanging from Erie on the Park, 510 W Erie, last week.
The building, which was completed 10 years a [...]
Affixing the first Target to the West Loop Target
Early yesterday afternoon workers were guiding the first Target sign into place on the north façade of the store on Jackson Blvd.
The store [...]
K2 construction update – a crane jump, paint and the heat
Late last week four 20-foot sections were added to the tower crane at K2 at K Station, bringing it to its final height and enabling construction t [...]
CA23 sells out pre-construction in West Loop
The phenomenon isn't garnering a lot of attention, but small to mid-sized new condo projects have been selling out before completion.
We've bee [...]
1313 Lofts – the ultimate in bowling alley floor plans?
They're called bowling alley floor plans based on their shape – long and narrow. They tend, due to their configuration, to lose a substantial perc [...]
An apartment dweller ages out of Division Street
Planned Property Management has four contemporary high-rise apartment buildings a few short blocks from both the Division and Rush Street bar, nig [...]
Quote of the day – stupefied 1880s NIMBYs
Henry Hobson Richardson's Glessner House, now a museum and local and national landmark, was not well-received by its neighbors at the time it was [...]
Rent an unavailable apartment from an unlicensed agent
This Craigslist ad is a classic of the Chicago apartment rental service genre, illustrating several of the time-wasting traps that anyone foolish [...]
Light, bright apartments steps from Gold Coast amenities
25 East Delaware is a completely renovated high-rise apartment building steps from State and Rush Streets, two short blocks from Chicago's Magnifi [...]
A chat about living in the Loop at Oakwood 200 Squared
Much of the advertising for apartment towers in Chicago's Loop focuses on the neighborhood's cultural attractions -- the theater district, the mus [...]
The updated amenities at the South Loop’s Astoria Tower
Astoria Tower, 8 E 9th St in Chicago's South Loop, was built as condos but converted to luxury rentals. The high-rise building started with an ext [...]
Newly-rehabbed Streeterville studios steps from the Mag Mile
211 East Delaware is a completely renovated high-rise apartment building just a block east of the Hancock Building and Chicago's Magnificent Mile [...]
The panoramic view from the Richelieu Flats
Crain's is reporting that developer Louis D'Angelo is converting a vacant building at 318 S Michigan Ave into 5 luxury condos:
The project fea [...]
The endless 44th floor amenities at the Hancock
Residents of the Hancock building, 175 E Delaware, have access to what may be the most extensive fully-enclosed amenities package of any high-rise [...]
SoNo East is 60% leased
Chicago's new rental towers continue to lease up at a rapid rate.
The first residents moved into SoNo East, a new 22-story, 324-unit rental tow [...]