Tag: Retail
Goodbye scaffolding, hello Flair Tower
The scaffolding and concrete barriers that once ringed Flair Tower's parking deck are now gone, revealing the high-rise's Erie Street entrance and [...]
Crain’s: Sedgwick planning $350 million development for Uptown
The proposals keep on coming. From Crain's Chicago Business:
Sedgwick Properties Development Corp., led by Marty Paris, hopes to break ground this [...]
Cityscape Condominiums up for auction
Want to pick up some condos and commercial space along Western Avenue in Saint Ben's? You'll have a chance on January 30, when Rick Levin & Associa [...]
Construction compilation: Reviewing the newest proposals from around Chicago
Keeping with the last post's train of thought, here are some other development proposals we've seen in the news in recent weeks. It seems like a lot o [...]
Crain's: City mulls TIF for South Works site
The city's Community Development Commission this afternoon is considering a tax increment financing district for the first phase of the 530-acre South [...]
Where to shop for wine in Evanston
This post doesn't signal an expansion of YoChicago's coverage. It's simply shameless plugs for a family friend and a new venture from our company. Fam [...]
Look out, South Loop — your Kerasotes theater has arrived
After reading Sloopin's latest Roosevelt Collection update yesterday, I felt it was time to ride down to pay another visit to the development at 150 [...]
Crain's: Supera, Zisook take over redevelopment of Lincoln Park Hospital site
Developers Michael Supera and Richard Zisook have taken title of the old Lincoln Park Hospital at 550 W Webster Ave and plan to redevelop the site wit [...]
Crêpes and cheese at the French Market
Joe and I left the Ogilvie Transportation Center feeling better about the Chicago French Market than we did upon our arrival. Near the end of our vi [...]
First impressions of the French Market
I'm not sure what Joe and I expected to see upon our arrival at the Chicago French Market at the Ogilvie Transportation Center on Monday, but what w [...]
Yo's year: Roosevelt Collection revisited
December's a month meant for retrospectives and year-end lists, so over these final three weeks of 2009, I'll dig back through our archives to see w [...]
A walk through Block 37
The long-awaited opening of the shops at Block 37 has begun. Zara, Puma, Godiva and a few others have opened, but the mall was nearly barren of reta [...]
First look at Block 37
News that some of the retail shops at Block 37 have finally opened prompted me to head there earlier today for a look around. More, including a vide [...]
Headline highlights: Home sales, Block 37, and a builder group bankruptcy
If you don't subscribe to our Chicago Real Estate News feed, you may have missed these stories from the past few days:
Home sales in Chicago were up [...]
Plugging Auburn Gresham's grocery gap
For a "food desert" like Auburn Gresham, the arrival of a new Aldi grocery store is a reason for celebration. This morning I drove down to the South [...]
The state of retail in Bucktown
When the biggest gaps in your commercial market are the lack of good hotels and gyms, you know you're in pretty good shape. In the final video from [...]
Kleiner sets launch of Roosevelt Collection bar for December 20
Commenter Brian did some investigation of his own last month and learned that Kerasotes planned to open its new ShowPlace ICON movie theater at Roosev [...]
Construction checkup: Trump's plaza, riverwalk, and retail spaces
One of the last milestones in the construction of the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago is the completion of the project's riverwalk and sto [...]
New mixed-use develoment proposed for Logan Square
Plans for several tall, mixed-use developments along North Milwaukee Avenue in Logan Square will go in front of the 1st Ward's advisory panel next wee [...]
Bob Darrow on Broadway retail and alternatives to Boys Town
From the Center on Halsted, Bob Darrow and I walked east along Waveland Avenue to Broadway. If Halsted Street represents the heart of Boys Town nigh [...]