Tag: Retail
Work underway on Clybourn Corridor’s New City
New City, a major development that will extend the Clybourn Corridor south of Lincoln Park, has languished for years.
Yesterday Chicago Real Es [...]
Whole Foods goes where urban renewal went to die
Ten years ago reporter John McCarron wrote this about Englewood:
This is the place urban renewal came to die. It died during the early ’70s, ri [...]
Renovated office space in Winnetka
My itinerary last Friday and Saturday started in Winnetka and moved on to Evanston, Park Ridge, the city and Highland Park.
BJB Evanst [...]
Updates: The Maxwell and Roosevelt Collection
The Roosevelt Collection's retail space has finally begun to fill, years after the first apartment renters were led to believe they wouldn't be li [...]
Construction update: Catalyst, 111 W Wacker, River Point and more
Recent visits to the roof of Hubbard Place in River North and a penthouse at K2 in the Fulton River District gave me good vantage points to look a [...]
Is East Village the next Bucktown?
The fact that we're even asking the headline question is an indication that the real estate market has taken a turn for the better this year. Duri [...]
An updated look at The Maxwell in not-the-South Loop
Its website will inform you that "The Maxwell is located at an intersection in the epicenter of the South Loop." The statement would be accurate i [...]
An updated look at the long-awaited Roosevelt Collection retail
It was nearly four years ago when Chicago's ever-deceptive rental services tried to sucker renters into the Lofts at Roosevelt Collection with the [...]
A Fulton Market Cold Storage update
We don't normally cover office developments – unless they're likely to have an impact on demand for nearby residential properties. That appears to [...]
Design work underway on North Pier lofts in Streeterville
A month ago we noted that the former North Pier Terminal in Streeterville had been acquired by an investor group.
Yesterday's email brought wo [...]
Back from the deadpool – The Shops and Lofts at 47
Tomorrow will mark six years to the day since we first wrote about The Shops and Lofts at 47. A spring 2008 groundbreaking was anticipated for the [...]
South Side markers on South Loop Mariano’s
From north to south the previous boundaries of Chicago's impressively-gerrymandered 3rd Ward extends from 14th Pl to 59th St. North of 31st Street [...]
Division Street condo seeks 25% premium after two years
We've written intermittently about Ranquist Development's Osterhaus McCarthy-designed 2028 W Division St since it launched in 2007.
In April of [...]
An iron walker at Target on Division
I don't think I've ever heard a discussion about Chicago's iron workers in which the word "crazy" didn't surface. If you talk to iron workers, how [...]
Is the West Loop the next hot neighborhood?
For years, the West Loop has been one of those neighborhoods that's always on the verge of becoming hot but never quite catches fire.
The past [...]
Will the new West Loop Mariano’s raise nearby condo prices?
Within the past week two of Chicago's more successful Realtors, both Prudential Rubloff agents, called my attention to the new West Loop Mariano's [...]
The Maxwell moves forward without apartments
The Bond Companies has apparently made a major change in its plans for The Maxwell, a development at Clinton, Canal and Roosevelt.
Earlier plan [...]
Demolition update – Clybourn Corridor retail sites
If you think that the Clybourn Corridor already has enough retail outlets, you'd be lining up on a different side of that issue than some local la [...]
Church barbeque gives way to Walgreens sushi on Armitage
Back in the day you could count on some of Chicago's best barbeque outside the Greater Little Rock Church at Armitage and Dayton in the DePaul - S [...]
Fulton Market impact development underway
An "impact development" is one that's likely to spur substantial change in its immediate area.
The Fulton Market neighborhood in t [...]