5/16/11
Cross-country skiing? That’s just me and @properties’ Greg Eldridge joking about the size of the private outdoor terraces adjacent to a half-floor unit at...
5/12/11
Silver Tower’s street-level commercial space is still empty, too. According to the Jameson Commercial sign fronting Franklin Street in River North, the 2,000 square-foot...
5/11/11
Sharon Kahan and Peter Graham of CB Richard Ellis are still searching for a few good tenants for EnV‘s 27,000 square feet of retail...
5/11/11
One Superior Place, the 52-story residential and retail tower at 1 W Superior St in River North, has sold, in what the Wall Street...
5/10/11
There’s a lot of empty commercial real estate at the bottom of downtown’s new rental high-rises (more on that later this week), but one...
5/9/11
In March Crain’s reported that Bank of America planned to sell Silver Tower’s inventory in bulk, and could stand to pull in as $16...
5/5/11
LG Development Group had big ideas for the 15,295 square-foot lot at 111 W Chestnut St in River North. Three years ago, LG started...
5/3/11
Last week I mentioned that dogs are prohibited from most apartment buildings in the Gold Coast, Old Town, and the Near North Side. On...
4/28/11
Renters looking in River North can choose from 12 different apartment buildings, the newest of which — EnV, Parc Huron, and Flair Tower —...
4/22/11
Last month some outside investors paid off a $82-million loan for Walton on the Park, Mesirow and Enterprise’s long-languishing 189-unit high-rise at 2 W...
4/21/11
The Red Line station at Chicago Avenue and State Street is a lot like the one at Grand and State, only without all the...
4/19/11
Yes, Grand is still a mess. The Red Line station at Grand Avenue and State Street has been a construction zone for years, and...
4/18/11
Dennis Rodkin’s recent writeup on the sale of a a foreclosed River North townhouse got me wondering about the other townhomes and single-families found...
4/13/11
Timber! Unit #212 at River North Commons, 520 W Huron St, is a “picture perfect,” “sun-filled” three-bedroom / two-bath loft that was listed last...
4/6/11
No building in the 60611 ZIP code saw more sales last quarter than Ontario Place, the 469-unit high-rise at 10 E Ontario St. Records at...
4/5/11
Remember hotel condos? Many in Chicago real estate would rather forget them. Nevertheless, you can still find these homes on the market — just...
3/28/11
It was John Battelle who first tagged the information gathered by Google search as a “database of intentions,” and it seems an apt meme....
3/28/11
The number of downtown condos, townhomes, and single-families listed for rent through the MLS has been back up above 1,000 for the past couple...
3/11/11
I rarely venture outside without a camera, but I didn’t have one with me earlier today as I headed for lunch at HopHaus, a...
3/9/11
Why search for 82 buyers when you need just one? Bank of America has opted to sell the unsold inventory at Silver Tower, 303...