Tag: Near North Side
Quote of the day: Elysian's troublesome top
Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin, on the Elysian: If all we do is laugh at traditionalism, rather than figuring out how to do it better, then t [...]
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 [...]
Parkside's next phase gets the go-ahead
Now that the city has injected some TIF stimulus into the flagging Parkside of Old Town development at Division and Larrabee streets, Holsten Real Est [...]
SoNo at night
Forgive the low quality of the photo above -- the only camera I had on hand last night was the one in my iPhone. Still, I think the image came out w [...]
Daley bails out Parkside of Old Town
The Daley administration has moved the goalposts for Parkside of Old Town's public subsidies in an attempt to keep the development afloat, Crain's r [...]
More video faves from 2009
Here are three more of our most-viewed videos from 2009:
A tour of Parkside of Old Town and Cabrini-Green
Trump Tower, from the Chicago Riverwalk
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Rental snapshot: How much for a 2,000 square-foot home in the downtown market?
The number of downtown homes listed as rentals on the MLS fell again between Dec. 18 and 25, according to our weekly tally. A total of 1,760 condos we [...]
Elysian scraps its hotel condos
That's one way to reduce excess supply in the market.
We've heard for months now that the developers of The Elysian, 11 E Walton St, were trying to d [...]
Construction checkup: Walton on the Park
Up and up and up Walton on the Park goes...where it stops, somebody knows! I'll hazard a guess and say it has another three stories left in it, bas [...]
Web presence: SoNo, fo' sho!
Once a week we'll check out the "Web presence" of one residential development, from Web sites for the building and its developer, architect, condo ass [...]
Construction checkup: Flair Tower
At the corner of Erie and Franklin Streets in River North, Flair Tower has nearly reached its final height of 289 feet. In the rendering, you can s [...]
Views from the Division Street bridge
As seen from the Division Street bridge, SoNo to the north and the Trump International Hotel & Tower each have an ethereal presence on the skyline. [...]