Tag: Rentals
New apartments slated for River North
Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily is reporting that Vancouver-based Onni Group has acquired two River North sites and plans to develop apartments [...]
Micro-apartments as an alternative to roommates
Back in July New York's Mayor Bloomberg launched a competition to design and build "Micro-Units," small apartments adapted to "how New Yorkers liv [...]
A video tour of Old Town’s newest apartments
The recently-completed 1225 Old Town, 1225 N Wells St in Old Town, features studio, convertible, one-, two- and three-bedroom luxury apartments.
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Spacious Lakeview East apartments with private balconies
The 14-story high-rise at 441 W Oakdale in Lakeview East has spacious, updated studio and one-bedroom apartments with an amenity that's unusual in [...]
1225 Old Town’s extensive amenities
1225 Old Town, a newly-opened apartment tower at 1225 N Wells St, has an extensive amenities package. It's stylish, functional, social -- and unus [...]
Seventeen17 apartments in Evanston – major URL marketing fail?
My tendency, and I suspect the tendency of many, is to type the name of an apartment project followed by ".com" when I don't know its URL, rather [...]
The CHA’s Britton Budd apartments in Lakeview East
The Chicago Housing Authority operates a number of seniors' housing projects that receive little attention.
One of those projects began its li [...]
Updated apartments in a classic Lakeview East location
Planned Property Management, one of Chicago's largest landlords, has three modern mid-rise buildings on Melrose in Lakeview East: 450, 537 and 544 [...]
The ceremonial groundbreaking at 73 East Lake
It's often the case that the ceremonial groundbreaking for a new high-rise takes place well after construction has begun.
Site work at 73 East [...]
Large, updated apartments in a convenient Gold Coast location
1036 N Dearborn is a completely renovated high-rise apartment building steps from State and Rush Streets, and just south of the Division Street ni [...]
Turning tenants into party animals
Rents may be rising and vacancy rates plummeting, but Chicago landlords are still competing on all fronts to gain new residents and retain existin [...]
A full-service high-rise where Lincoln Park meets Lakeview East
2850 North Sheridan has an impressive 1920s exterior, but everything inside this full-service apartment building is new.
2850 has a grand, welc [...]
The views from a Buena Park high-rise
Yesterday was a great day, despite the chill in the air, to be visiting rooftops. The air was brilliantly clear in the sunshine and fall colors we [...]
Lincoln Park’s impressive vintage apartment lobbies
Some new apartment buildings design their lobbies to impress, hoping for rental success, but none are as impressive as the grand, ornately decorat [...]
The topping-off party at K2 at K Station apartments
Almost a year to the day after breaking ground on K2 at K Station, Fifield Companies hosted a topping-off party to celebrate the building's reachi [...]
A South Loop rental tower adds a sold sign
Six months ago we relayed a Crain's report that 1401 South State had joined the ranks of downtown apartment towers offered for sale. A news releas [...]
Chicago’s highest outdoor pools – 777 North Michigan
The highest and second-highest outdoor pools in the city are at the ParkShore Condominium and Eugenie Terrace apartments.
The third-highest out [...]
Chicago’s highest outdoor pools – Eugenie Terrace
The second highest outdoor pool in Chicago is in Lincoln Park, on the roof of the 44-story Eugenie Terrace apartment tower, 1730 N Clark St. It's [...]
Stale quote of the day – Uptown floodgates are opening
Here's the lede to a TimeOut Chicago piece on 1325 W Wilson, an Uptown building that began its life as the the Norman Hotel in 1929, was rehabbed [...]
Looking down on South Loop development sites
The yellow and white tower cranes in the above photo mark the sites, respectively, of the new Jones College Prep building and a new dorm under con [...]