Tag: Downtown Loop
Home for the holidays at Oakwood 200 Squared
Chicago's Loop is always buzzing with events, pulsing with an energy level you can experience only in the heart of a few of the world's great citi [...]
Three-bedroom rental shootout – Aqua vs 340 on the Park
If you're in the market for a high-end rental on Chicago's New East Side you have options in two very different buildings in the complex: Aqua and [...]
How Amli’s CEO views the downtown rental market
Abby Gallun from Crain's interviews AMLI Residential CEO's Greg Mutz on prospects for the downtown and suburban new construction rental markets in [...]
Video tours of Playboy Mansion condos
Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin takes you inside the largest unit at the Playboy Mansion, 1340 N State Pkwy, in the above video. The 7,874 squar [...]
Meet Charlie Zechel, a master cement finisher
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apar [...]
How will new university housing impact the downtown rental market?
According to the Chicago Loop Alliance (pdf), more than 65,000 students attend classes in the Loop / South Loop area.
Downtown Chicago campus [...]
YoChicago’s most popular videos for the last 30 days
YoChicago's videos at YouTube were watched more than 55,000 times during the past 30 days. Our video at the Home Alone house, featured above, rece [...]
The flying forms are flying at K2
We've been diligently following construction progress at K2 at K Station, a new rental high-rise, for the past several weeks. You can see video of [...]
Dueling penthouses at Water Tower Place
Two 72nd floor penthouse units have recently come on the market at Water Tower Place in Streeterville.
Unit 7201 is a 2-bedroom, 2 ½ bath home [...]
Year-end flurry of downtown high-rise sales
Crain's is reporting the sale of Flair Tower, 222 W Erie St, and 1212 S Michigan Ave, both rental apartment buildings. A sale may also be in the w [...]
Mapping the new downtown apartment projects
We've updated our list and map of downtown apartment projects that are proposed or under construction to add several recently-announced projects a [...]
New City YMCA site in play
Crain's is reporting, behind its paywall, that John Bucksbaum, former CEO of General Growth Properties, is bidding for the former New City YMCA si [...]
Tower crane trivia at K2
I spent some time yesterday chatting with Marie, an 18-year veteran crane operator, who will be half of the team running the tower crane at K2 at [...]
Old Main Post Office – I hear a deafening roar of BS
Here's the lead paragraph from today's Chicago Real Estate Daily on Martin Mulryan, the "point man for Old Main Post Office:"
When Martin Mulr [...]
Erecting the tower crane at K2 at K Station
A well-run high-rise construction site is an amazing scene, buzzing with a variety of activities, with massive amounts of material arriving consta [...]
A surplus of superlatives in new Trump video
Various members of the family Trump appear in this 5-minute superlative-stuffed sashay through their Chicago tower.
"We really feel like we've [...]
Day one of a 5-day build-a-crane show at K2
The new apartment tower at K2 at K Station is rolling along.
McHugh Construction completed the drilling of 120 80-foot deep caissons in just 2 [...]
Nearly a third of East LSD co-op available for rent
There's been a flurry of media buzz lately about Oprah Winfrey's co-op at 199 East Lake Shore Drive being offered for rent at $15,000 a month. Cur [...]
When Bob’s cat catapulted from Marina City
In Steve McQueen's The Hunter there's a famous scene where a car hurtles off Marina City's parking ramp into the Chicago River. Dennis Rodkin's v [...]
Chicago’s neighborhood misspelling bee
What's the most commonly misspelled Chicago neighborhood?
It's not Lake View. The neighborhood's official name is spelled as two words, but the [...]