Tag: Downtown Loop

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A sky-high basketball game atop a Weese vs Mies classic

A sky-high basketball game atop a Weese vs Mies classic

With any luck you'll never participate in a pickup game like the one pictured above at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago. [...]
$1,950 rent conundrum – an Aqua convertible or a 2-bedroom, 2-bath across the street

$1,950 rent conundrum – an Aqua convertible or a 2-bedroom, 2-bath across the street

Here's a good test of what you prioritize and value in your next apartment. Consider a convertible studio and a 2-bedroom, 2-bath in two different [...]
Five single-families for sale on a great Gold Coast block

Five single-families for sale on a great Gold Coast block

Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast stretches from State St to Lake Shore Drive. It's basically a single long block book-ended by Tavern on Rush and [...]
Sign atop SoNo says RENT NOW at SoNo East

Sign atop SoNo says RENT NOW at SoNo East

The SoNo East RENT NOW sign on the SoNo condo tower is pretty hard to miss, but I don't recall seeing it before yesterday. The windows haven't [...]
Five years ago today the Tribune reported plans for Kinzie Station

Five years ago today the Tribune reported plans for Kinzie Station

The headline read 6-tower project planned, and the story began: A Chicago-based developer intends to build a $750 million residential project n [...]
Jonathan Jackson keeps tabs on building movements

Jonathan Jackson keeps tabs on building movements

Jonathan Jackson is a Technical Engineer with Plumbers Local 130 and a licensed land surveyor. When I stopped to chat with him at K2 at K Stati [...]
Riverfront duplex penthouse back on the market

Riverfront duplex penthouse back on the market

The spectacular duplex penthouse at 445 E North Water St was listed for sale at $4.89 million when I toured it with Prudential Rubloff's Prudenti [...]
Another River North apartment tower up for sale

Another River North apartment tower up for sale

The market for downtown Chicago apartment towers has been active lately, and River North has been the strongest submarket. EnV, 161 W Kinzie, [...]
Three Cesar Pelli towers in the works for Wolf Point

Three Cesar Pelli towers in the works for Wolf Point

In newspaper terminology, this is an evergreen story – one that recurs regularly. It's had multiple variations over the decades, and the latest co [...]
The flop on LaSalle now LaSalle Park Apartments

The flop on LaSalle now LaSalle Park Apartments

Our first mention of The Flats on LaSalle was in a round-up story on condo bargains nearly six years ago, and our most recent, in August of 2010, [...]
A panoramic view of K2 at K Station

A panoramic view of K2 at K Station

Our unusually mild weather is contributing to rapid progress on the construction of K2, K2 at K Station, a 496-unit, 34-story rental high-rise in [...]
More apartments proposed for Near West Side

More apartments proposed for Near West Side

Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that Bond Cos., a local developer, is planning a mixed-use development on the site of a former Ch [...]
New construction in Chicago, then and now

New construction in Chicago, then and now

What a difference five years makes! Five years ago today we were – Reporting the imminent start of construction at Aqua Touting 1349 S Wabash [...]
Whatever happened to the “games or no games” Olympic Village?

Whatever happened to the “games or no games” Olympic Village?

Five years ago today we were reporting on the Olympics: Mayor Daley intends to build an Olympic Village whether the 2016 Summer Olympic Games c [...]
From Yo’s archive – Developer deals at River City

From Yo’s archive – Developer deals at River City

Remember plasma TVs? Remember the days when condo developers were engaging in a frenzy of incentive offers? Five years ago today we suggested t [...]
Crain’s – Vultures looking to feast on bad loans

Crain’s – Vultures looking to feast on bad loans

Crain's Chicago Business (subscription required) is reporting that investment groups have been purchasing packages of mortgage loans on Chicago-ar [...]
Park Millennium – from buyers lined up outside the building to bargain rentals

Park Millennium – from buyers lined up outside the building to bargain rentals

Six years ago Yo was writing this about the Park Millennium, a 52-story condo conversion at 222 N Columbus Dr on the New East Side: Carrie McCo [...]
Say goodbye to Randolph Place’s river views

Say goodbye to Randolph Place’s river views

According to a recent Sun-Times report, developer John O'Donnell plans to build a 40- to 50-story office tower on a West Loop site he recently acq [...]
A K2 construction update from Alan Schachtman

A K2 construction update from Alan Schachtman

Alan Schachtman is a principal in the Fifield-Wood joint venture that's developing K2 at K Station, a 34-story, 496-unit high-rise apartment build [...]
A foreclosure trifecta for politically-connected Chicago developers

A foreclosure trifecta for politically-connected Chicago developers

The last few years can't have been much fun for Thomas DiPiazza and Richard Ferro, developers who are usually mentioned by way of their political [...]
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