Tag: River North
EnV EnFo: Ask, and ye shall recieve
Credit where credit's due: EnV leasing and marketing director Ann Gentile filled my inbox with all sorts of goodies about her building, including an u [...]
Construction checkup: EnV
One new development that wouldn't rank high in a Web presence watch is EnV, the new 28-story, 249-unit apartment tower going up next to the Merchan [...]
Views aplenty from a Trump three-bedroom
After chatting about the state of Chicago's luxury market, Tricia Fox of Keller Williams Gold Coast Realtors took me through a couple of her listing [...]
Construction checkup: Walton on the Park
Up and up and up Walton on the Park goes...where it stops, somebody knows! I'll hazard a guess and say it has another three stories left in it, bas [...]
Popular high-rises, good condo boards, and special assessments in the luxury market
New towers like Trump and The Legacy at Millennium Park get a lot of attention right now, but several luxury high-rises built in the earlier part of [...]
The problem with hotel condos
The hotel condo market might have seemed like a good idea to some developers in the earlier part of the decade, but lenders sure don't like them now [...]
Web presence: superior presence for Superior at LaSalle
This marks the second week of our new “Web presence” feature, in which we collect as many links as we can for one residential development, from site [...]
The Elysian's metropolitan touch
After dropping me off at the Hancock for my interview with Jenny Ames of Coldwell Banker, my man Jeeves pulled the company car around to The Elysian [...]
Talking Trump and the luxury home market
I've read plenty of stories about the "cold" market for luxury homes in recent months. Most focus on two facts: buyers lost money in the stock marke [...]
Superior 110: Where brokers buy
On Tuesday I visited the brokers open house at Superior 110, the new high-rise at 110 W Superior St in River North. While I was there I asked sales [...]
Downtown shark attack! Price cuts in River North, South Loop, and West Loop
Matt Garrison of Coldwell Banker’s Matt Garrison Group recently launched CondoShark.com, which collects the details of big price cuts on homes in Ch [...]
Cool water, dark tiles highlight Superior 110's designer lobby
Looking for some color on a gray day? Superior 110's deep blue windows may be the remedy for your malaise. Step inside the lobby at 110 W Superior [...]
Flair Tower's loft "faux-cade"
It's been so long since we've dished on the design of a new high-rise that I couldn't help but snap these pics during my lunch break. I know it seem [...]
Construction checkup: Parc Huron
There's quite a racket coming from the corner of Kingsbury and Erie Streets in River North, as a rotating fleet of cement mixers swarm around the co [...]
Construction checkup: River North high-rises
I stopped by a cluster of River North developments this Friday to check up on the progress of their construction. From ground level The Elysian look [...]
Construction checkup: Ten East Delaware
The new River North tower Ten East Delaware should be getting close to being ready for its first occupants: Its website claims that one-, two- and t [...]
Construction checkup: Flair Tower
At the corner of Erie and Franklin Streets in River North, Flair Tower has nearly reached its final height of 289 feet. In the rendering, you can s [...]
Trump Tower Express Meetings program
Trump International Hotel and Tower at 401 N Wabash Ave in River North is large. It stands 1,170 feet tall with 92 stories. A 23,000 square-foot spa [...]
A glimpse of new homes from Navy Pier
Surely you've heard some of the hoopla over Navy Pier's new AeroBalloon by now. My advice to anyone who wants to take a ride: Call ahead, because th [...]
Silver Tower's local Merchandise Mart
Just south of the 40-story high-rise Silver Tower at 303 W Ohio St in River North is the behemoth Merchandise Mart (the short and long building seen [...]