4/2/13
Meet Kristina, the first resident at the new K2 luxury apartment high-rise in the Fulton River District. When her lease expired, Kristina chose K2...
3/27/13
It’s common for newly-opened apartment buildings to offer discounted rent deals during their initial lease-up. The offers are typically described as free rent. The...
3/25/13
The Craigslist Apartment Cleanup is an ongoing effort to make Craigslist, Trulia, Zillow and other websites useful for renters by suppressing illegal rental service...
3/15/13
The 496-unit, 34-story K2 at 365 N Halsted is the first new luxury high-rise to open in a rental boom that will add thousands...
12/26/12
From a recent news release: Chicago-based Fifield Companies and its joint-venture partner, Pacific Life Insurance Co. of Newport Beach, Calif., have announced that Canadian...
8/15/12
The Loop at dusk, viewed through the lens of Michael Kardas. The West Loop doesn’t rank high on the list of downtown Chicago neighborhoods...
7/6/12
Five years ago yesterday we served up a sales update on 740 W Fulton, a 132-unit high-rise in the West Loop. If you search...
6/18/12
In a deceptively simple operation a “jacking crane” frames part of a tower crane and lifts the crane’s cab and jibs twenty feet, opening...
1/25/12
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...
12/1/11
A well-run high-rise construction site is an amazing scene, buzzing with a variety of activities, with massive amounts of material arriving constantly and quickly...
11/28/11
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...
11/2/11
I don’t usually attend groundbreaking ceremonies, but I stopped by K2’s this morning to hear Steven Fifield, its developer, talk about his latest K...