Tag: Downtown Loop
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.
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$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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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 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
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
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
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
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 [...]