Tag: High-rise
Fifty-eight years in a Lake Shore Drive high-rise
I stopped for a brief visit at Planned Property's resident appreciation party – the "luau on the lake."
The highlight of my visit was meeting L [...]
Free parking and decorating dollars at The Columbian
The Columbian, which touts itself as "the best deal on Michigan Avenue" is advertising free parking and up to $20,000 in "decorating dollars" on i [...]
A visit to Lake Point Tower, by air and by land
The 70-story Lake Point Tower soars in splendid, undulating isolation as the only high-rise east of Lake Shore Drive. It's likely to retain that d [...]
Moving from the North Shore to the Gold Coast
Diane Freeman grew up on the East Coast, raised her family on Chicago's North Shore and moved to the Gold Coast 8 ½ years ago.
A real estate ag [...]
Foresight or folly in Chicago’s Chinatown?
Developer See Wong has reimagined an ambitious development he first proposed several years ago as a three-phase project on a site at the edge of C [...]
Five years later, one-third sold in River North
The high-rise condos at 757 N Orleans in Chicago's River North neighborhood first came to our attention back in March of 2006.
We wrote about t [...]
Non-smoking vintage apartments in the Gold Coast
Kingsbury Plaza attracted quite a bit of attention earlier this year when it announced that it was going smoke-free. The Tribune noted at the time [...]
Oh high-rise boy, the pipes, the pipes are cooling
It's been a typical May in Chicago's whipsaw weather, with temperatures soaring and plunging, sometimes within the same day.
When the room turns ch [...]
Wine, cheese and Greek cuisine at 200 North Dearborn
The one thing about American Invsco that typically generates unanimity is the company's talent for throwing a party.
If you're in the market [...]
A River North terrace suitable for cross-country skiing?
Cross-country skiing? That's just me and @properties' Greg Eldridge joking about the size of the private outdoor terraces adjacent to a half-floor [...]
Will the new Lakeshore East apartment tower block Aqua’s views?
If you want to stay current on news about Chicago high-rise developments, the SkyscraperCity High-rise Development News forum is a must-visit. Th [...]
The best of 2007 – X/O Condominiums
YoChicago has its roots in print – the glossy-covered, tabloid-sized New Homes Magazine that we published from the early 90s through 2008.
On [...]
Deal of the day: Buy at 550 St Clair this weekend and get a Smart car
Sutherland Pearsall has weathered the downturn in the condo market by renting out units at 550 St Clair in Streeterville, but an uptick in traffic and [...]
Another new low for downtown rental inventory
Another Friday brings another low number of downtown homes listed for rent on the MLS. At this time last year, 1,350 condos, townhomes, and single [...]
Retail watch: Still no takers at Silver Tower
Silver Tower's street-level commercial space is still empty, too. According to the Jameson Commercial sign fronting Franklin Street in River North [...]
1 year of assessments paid, $5K in closing credits, and an iPad for buyers at 235 Van Buren
The next 10 people who buy a new-construction condo at 235 Van Buren in the Loop will hit an incentive trifecta: one year of assessments paid, $5, [...]
Retail watch: EnV still EmT
Sharon Kahan and Peter Graham of CB Richard Ellis are still searching for a few good tenants for EnV's 27,000 square feet of retail space. The to [...]
Hartz Mountain buys One Superior Place for $300M
One Superior Place, the 52-story residential and retail tower at 1 W Superior St in River North, has sold, in what the Wall Street Journal calls "the [...]
Retail space fills up at Flair Tower
There's a lot of empty commercial real estate at the bottom of downtown's new rental high-rises (more on that later this week), but one building [...]