Tag: New construction
Meet Charlie Zechel, a master cement finisher
The focus of work this week at K2 at K Station is completing site excavation and forming and pouring the basement walls of this new high-rise apar [...]
Evanston apartment complex breaks buildings
Demolition of the existing buildings has begun on the site a new 214-unit apartment complex in Evanston. Call it a building-breaking rather than a [...]
How will new university housing impact the downtown rental market?
According to the Chicago Loop Alliance (pdf), more than 65,000 students attend classes in the Loop / South Loop area.
Downtown Chicago campus [...]
The flying forms are flying at K2
We've been diligently following construction progress at K2 at K Station, a new rental high-rise, for the past several weeks. You can see video of [...]
Is your developer in financial trouble?
I recently took a cursory look into the history of a developer offering a to-be-built single-family home for sale, and wasn't encouraged by what I [...]
Specialists to Lathrop residents – no Mau-mauing the flak catchers
I have to admit that I couldn't bear to watch the whole thing, although I did manage to skip about through several minutes of this relentlessly "o [...]
Mapping the new downtown apartment projects
We've updated our list and map of downtown apartment projects that are proposed or under construction to add several recently-announced projects a [...]
Ken Neumann is back – in Elmhurst and other venues
Neumann Homes, once one of the nation's largest homebuilders, filed for bankruptcy protection in 2007, and developer Ken Neumann told Bloomberg Bu [...]
A $2.7M spec home of immense stature in Bucktown
If pretensions were buyers, the newly-listed home under construction at 1921 W Wabansia St in Bucktown would have multiple offers. Brace yourself [...]
Old Main Post Office – I hear a deafening roar of BS
Here's the lead paragraph from today's Chicago Real Estate Daily on Martin Mulryan, the "point man for Old Main Post Office:"
When Martin Mulr [...]
New listing – builder’s $750K Rogers Park townhome
The listing for 7772 N Sheridan Rd, the easternmost unit in the Lakeview Pointe development in Rogers Park, boasts that "you can't live closer to [...]
Site work underway at Optima’s 200 East Illinois apartments
A week ago Crain's reported that Optima had secured financing for and was getting ready to break ground on a 42-story, 325-unit Streeterville apar [...]
FSBO follies in Logan Square?
In the early years of the millennium a patch of Logan Square along Armitage was a hotbed of development activity, playing host to a number of loft [...]
SOAR – Seniors Opposed to Anything, Really
I don't know which is more amusing – The Chicago Architecture Blog's characterizing the Streeterville Organization of Active Residents (SOAR) as " loc [...]
A comfortable new East Village 5-bedroom
Noah Properties has recently completed three new contemporary homes in the 1800 block of West Erie in Chicago's East Village.
The first two so [...]
HGTV and the ultimate bachelor pad at 235 Van Buren
An HGTV episode tells the story of successful business partners Jason and Tony and their designer searching for a new home to turn into a bachelor [...]
Few bright spots in third-quarter downtown condo sales
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily reports that Appraisal Research Counselors summary of downtown Chicago condo sales in the third quarter had few [...]
An impressive luxury home in Noble Square
As you enter the newly-built, recently-listed, 4-bedroom, 3 ½ bath home at 514 N Ada St you're facing a dramatic soaring staircase framed in glass [...]
Oakwood 200 Squared lets you choose your views
Your ideal city vista might be a panoramic view of the Chicago River, the scenic city skyline to the north and east, or it might include the glitt [...]
A classic corner-lot single-family in Lincoln Park
The 1200 block of Lill in Lincoln Park / DePaul is a quiet, secluded location that's just a few blocks from the Fullerton El stop. At the end of t [...]