Tag: High-rise
The spectacular view from Echelon at K Station
You feel the absence of sunlight more keenly when you have a great view of Chicago spread out before you. And the panoramic view from the 37th flo [...]
Tales from an apartment hunt – phantom closets and howling wolves
If you have tales you'd like to share from your apartment hunt, add them in a comment or email yojoe at yochicago dot com.
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The Pedway is steps away from Oakwood 200
The Pedway is one of Chicago's greatest conveniences – and one of its least known.
In winter cold and summer heat, savvy Chicagoans duck into t [...]
AMLI’s South Loop project evokes strong opinions
A host of urban planner wannabes are passionately bashing AMLI Residential's proposal for a two-tower 398-unit apartment complex on the southwest [...]
Tales from an apartment hunt – the John Hancock Center
If you have tales you'd like to share from your apartment hunt, add them in a comment or email yojoe at yochicago dot com.
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Caissons complete at 360 West Hubbard
I stopped by the site of the new apartment tower under construction at 360 West Hubbard a few hours ago and learned that the caisson drilling was [...]
Legacy at Millennium Park refinanced
This morning's email included a news release announcing the refinancing of Legacy at Millennium Park, 60 E Monroe St. An excerpt:
Mesa Developm [...]
K2 construction, Marie’s view from the tower crane
Marie Spear and Greg Hayes, the team operating the tower crane at K2 at K Station, are veteran members of Operating Engineers Local 150. They spen [...]
The 5-minute commute from Oakwood 200 Squared
Residents of Oakwood 200 Squared, 210 N Wells St, enjoy an enviable commute to work in Chicago's Loop – often a 5-minute or less walk away. That's [...]
Rent vs own on Astor Street – $20K a month or $5.4M?
A full-floor 6,000 square foot home just became available at 1555 North Astor St in the Gold Coast. It's offered for sale at $5,400,000 and for re [...]
Fifield announces $104.5M sale of Echelon at K Station
The news release just came across our virtual desk:
CHICAGO – (February 2, 2012) Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seventeen seconds of wreckage in Houston and Chicago
According to a January 8 article in the Houston Chronicle, "It took 17 seconds Sunday morning for the first skyscraper built outside of downtown H [...]
360 W Hubbard apartments officially underway in River North
Here's the text of a news release received this morning from The Habitat Company:
The Habitat Company announced the start of construction of a [...]
A panoramic view of K2 at K Station
Our unusually warm winter weather is facilitating rapid progress at the K2 at K Station construction site.
You can see more coverage of the 34 [...]