Tag: Downtown Loop
Berkus lists Gold Coast condo for $2.65M
Occasionally you'll find a "Nate Berkus home" on the market, but it's not every day that Nate Berkus' home goes up for sale.
Oprah's favorite desi [...]
Terrazio ramps up leasing effort
I've heard from two readers in the past day about a new "Now Leasing" banner hanging outside Terrazio, 1935 S Wabash Ave in the South Loop. One ev [...]
River City three-bedroom now 79% below ’03 price
River City made news last summer after rainwater flooded its condos and garage, but there's been a redder kind of liquid seeping from the building [...]
Choice cuts: Assumption School penthouse cut by 31% over 9 months
Won't someone claim this penthouse? The fourth-floor unit in the old Assumption School building at 319 W Erie St in River North is one of seven th [...]
Crain’s: Nine new rental towers in the pipeline
The second tower of SoNo is just one of nine rental high-rises, comprising 3,456 apartments, that are either under construction, breaking ground in 20 [...]
Popular new home model at 1507 W Superior
If you have a sense of déjà vu as you watch the above sponsored video, perhaps it’s because you’ve seen the videos we shot at similar homes at 170 [...]
Block by block in Chicago neighborhoods
The ways in which people experience Chicago’s neighborhoods are almost as varied as the neighborhoods themselves.
Block by Block looks at Chica [...]
The Legacy finally deemed a tall tower
Last January I asked a representative of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat why The Legacy at Millennium Park, 60 E Monroe St, didn't [...]
New magnet school planned for old Jefferson School in University Village
Following months of lobbying by area residents, Chicago Public Schools approved a plan to open a new K-8 magnet school in the former Jefferson School [...]
Quote of the day: Giving it away at 200 Squared
"To get people in, they've needed to give away the store."
- Fifield Companies President Steven Fifield, giving his take on a competitor's attempt [...]
New year, new listings: Six new condos for sale at 1162 West Hubbard
Back in July 2009, Mark Boyer stumbled upon a 17-unit condo building under construction at 1162 W Hubbard St in West Town. He couldn't get a lot o [...]
Parking comes separately for $3.95M Gold Coast penthouse
Speaking of Astor Street, there's more to the Gold Coast co-op market than just the stately high-rises of East Lake Shore Drive. The 1200 block of [...]
Kelleher wants $16M for Gold Coast mansion
World-famous hole digger Garrett Kelleher is trying to unload his century-old mansion at 1416 N Astor St for $16 million, says Dennis Rodkin. It's [...]
Are smaller lakefront condos headed for decline?
Recently, at sites where the wishful-thinkers don their blinkers and gather to blather about the future of Chicago’s lakefront market, there’s been a [...]
The end of Cabrini Green
Last night, WGN-TV looked back at the final days of Cabrini Green and interviewed some of the last people to leave it. Despite its reputation as a [...]
Rent or buy a 3,000 square-foot duplex in a Potter Palmer mansion
Two stories of a Potter Palmer-built mansion at 33 E Division St in the Gold Coast are on the market, either for rent or for sale. (Not to be confused [...]
Year opens with 1,100+ downtown homes for rent
Every Friday we record the number of homes in 14 downtown Chicago's 14 ZIP codes that are listed for rent through the MLS. Today, the first Friday of [...]
Bedbugs (real ones) strike The Tides at Lakeshore East
The Tides, Magellan Development's 51-story apartment tower at 360 E South Water St in Lakeshore East, had a bedbug problem in 2010, according to a pos [...]
A cautiously bullish view on River North real estate
Earlier today I joined our sales manager on a visit to Superior 110, a luxury high-rise in River North that’s one of our clients.
One reason fo [...]
Kingsbury Plaza goes smoke-free
Light up at your own risk at Kingsbury Plaza. The 420-unit apartment tower at 520 N Kingsbury St is going smoke-free, and tenants who ignore the ban c [...]