Tag: High-rise
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 [...]
Rent at The Elysian for $14,000 a month
Need a fresh start and a new view in 2011? For just $14,000 a month, you can call The Elysian home.
The 3,972 square-foot three-bedroom / 3.5-bath [...]
Towers of terror: Sellers take their lumps at Granville Beach in Edgewater
This morning Joe Zekas, writing at Homeward Bound - West Suburbs, likened price cuts at Oak Brook's Tower Condominiums to the "uncontrollable plum [...]
Crain’s: Low price for Astoria Tower should result in low rents (now with prices)
We've heard from one commenter and now from Crain's that Crescent Heights has fast-tracked its rental program for its latest acquisition, Astoria Towe [...]
Astoria Tower sold to Crescent Heights affiliate
Astoria Tower, the 30-story high-rise at 8 E 9th St in the South Loop, was purchased last week by an affiliate of condo and apartment developer Cr [...]
Choice cuts: Renovated corner condo on Michigan Avenue listed below 2000 sale price
Down, down, down goes the price of this corner condo at 777 N Michigan Ave. Unit 3201, a 1,650 square-foot two-bedroom / 2.5-bath positioned on t [...]
Looking down on the Gardens of 2520
The marketing team for Lincoln Park 2520 recently posted a new rendering of the development's one-acre park, the Gardens of 2520. In the words of [...]
Making progress on a full-floor home at Superior 110
Last month Greg Eldridge of @properties and Joe Zekas visited two half-floor units on the 23rd floor of Superior 110 in River North before the beg [...]
600 Lake Shore Drive closing in on closeout
One or two condos sell every week at 600 Lake Shore Drive, and the project is fast approaching closeout, says Royal Fisher, one of Belgravia Group [...]
Chicago Spire — still dead
At this point, stories of the Spire's incremental demise don't interest me, but a couple of people have sent me links to today's story regarding t [...]
The two-bedrooms of Kingsbury Plaza
Kingsbury Plaza, the 47-story high-rise at 520 N Kingsbury St in River North, has a simple design: Each floor has four studios, four one-bedr [...]
The condo market sleeps with the fishes
"Make me an offer I can’t refuse," says Nicholas S. Gouletas, the godfather of condominium sales, and the chairman and CEO of American Invsco.
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$399K ‘Pre-short sale’ surfaces at Park Monroe
I've noticed several resales listed at Park Monroe, 65 E Monroe St, over the course of the year, but today is the first time I can recall seeing a [...]
Whole lotta closin’ goin’ on at The Elysian
A $48 million haul isn't a bad way to start a week. That's the total price for the 11 two-, three-, and four-bedroom condos that closed at The Elysian [...]
Deal of the day: Rent at 200 Squared, win (the chance to win) a new Smart car
Is a name in a hat a worthwhile incentive for leasing a Loop apartment? Draper and Kramer thinks so. The first big promotion for D&K's 200 Squ [...]
Downtown’s new construction market on pace to 600 sales in 2010
“Right now, we’re just kind of glued in place," says Gail Lissner, vice president of Appraisal Research Counselors, in a new Crain's article about [...]
Sales update: Five sales at 433 Briar since new discount rollout
The latest word from 433 Briar in Lake View is "so far, so good." Since an affiliate of Belgravia Group brought 17 two- and three-bedrooms back to th [...]
Fifty years of Marina City
This is the 50th anniversary of the official, shiny-shovel groundbreaking ceremony for Marina City, Bertrand Goldberg's iconic city-within-a-city [...]
Creating a full-floor home in River North
Locals call Superior 110 "the blue building" because of the striking tint of its floor-to-ceiling windows. As you'll see in this video, the camera [...]
Grand jury: Pure was a Ponzi scheme
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury indicted the dev [...]