Tag: Magnificent Mile
Realtors plan mega-development on Michigan Ave
From yesterday's Chicago Tribune:
A key parcel on the south end of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile appears headed for redevelopment in an ambitiou [...]
An insider’s tour of 132 East Delaware, the Bloomingdale’s Building
132 East Delaware Place offers luxury residences, shopping, dining and offices under one roof.
Most people identify the building with Blooming [...]
Blair Kamin is back in Chicago
Blair Kamin, the Tribune's award-winning architecture critic, has spent the past year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. He's apparently back in Chicago a [...]
Park Tower penthouse sells for $15 million
At an architectural height of 844 feet, the Park Tower condominium, 800 N Michigan Ave, ranks as Chicago's 12th tallest building. It's the fifth-t [...]
Tablets on Michigan Avenue, then and now
As I watched tourists in front of the Hancock building using their tablet cameras to photograph Fourth Presbyterian Church, I couldn't help wonder [...]
New and notable rental – $20K a month at Olympia Centre
At a height of 725 feet the 63-story Olympia Centre is said to be the tallest mid-block building in Chicago. In addition to condominiums the build [...]
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.
Here's the fourth re [...]
A drive down the Non-magnificent Mile
It's Partee Time, and Partee Wesley takes you on a drive along the Non-magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue's doppelgänger in Roseland and West Pullm [...]
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 [...]
Add $5K a month if you want it furnished at 800 North Michigan
The priciest new rental to hit the downtown market this week will set you back $16,900 a month. Make that $21,900 if you want it furnished.
The 3- [...]
Rubloff prez talks Ritz-Carlton
This short video, courtesy of LXTV's Open House Chicago, plays very much like a commercial for Prudential Rubloff (because that's basically what i [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
With elements of its facade now in place along its lower levels, it's getting easier to see how the Ritz-Carlton Residences high-rise, under cons [...]
A Neoclassical villa atop a Mag Mile skyscraper, for just $11.5 million
Does your home have an enough room?
Not enough room, but a room that gives visitors "just enough information" about you, and that serves as a "mirr [...]
The priciest one-bedroom in Chicago
I didn't mean to write anything else about this building for a while -- it just happened that way.
As the headline says, this is the priciest one-bed [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
With yesterday's sales update still in mind, I took a detour to the Mag Mile during my lunch break to get a look at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, und [...]
Crain's: Three sales in three months for Ritz-Carlton Residences
You know times have changed when three pre-construction sales can make headlines. Crain's reports that the 88-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences, under cons [...]
A $2.6 million short sale on the Mag Mile
The most expensive short sale I can find in Chicago is this duplex penthouse at Chicago Place, on the northwest corner of Huron Street and Michigan Av [...]
Waitin' on the Ritz
Yo reader Bob sent along his view into the Ritz-Carlton Residences site at 664 N Michigan Ave after reading yesterday's pricing update. More clutter [...]
Today's news: New listings for Ritz-Carton Residences reach $1,336 a square foot
What, you thought we'd entered some new age of frugality and thrift? Not on the Mag Mile! Ritz-Carlton laughs in the face of a down market!
Jane Shaw [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
This was the scene at the corner of Michigan Avenue and Erie Street on Wednesday afternoon, where workers were clearly doing something with a crane [...]