Tag: Rogers Park
Riding the rails: An upgraded resale competing against new homes at Renaissance Lofts
Grab your Chicago Card -- we're going on a ride down the Red Line! In the coming weeks, I'm going to single out a home for sale near each of the Re [...]
Quick hits: Moore supports Rogers Park proposal; Ravenswood residents give OK to Sears lot redevelopment
Two short updates on stories we've discussed recently:
Ald. Joe Moore will support a zoning change that will allow construction of mixed-use devel [...]
Howard Street: Wild, wooly, bleak, and bleary
From Crain's Chicago Real Estate Daily, June 24, 2009:
A pioneering effort to develop a 221-unit apartment building on the scruffy border of Evanst [...]
Shark bites: "Devastation" in West Rogers Park's condo conversions
Yesterday afternoon I received an e-mail from CondoShark.com's Matt Garrison focusing on two topics: the types of buyers who are active in the post- [...]
Talks continue on Rogers Park proposal
Developers Richard Aronson and Scott Sinar will present the latest revisions of their proposed mixed-use building in Rogers Park at a community mee [...]
The funky heart of Rogers Park
How does Rogers Park, a neighborhood on the northern edge of Chicago, stay funky? The secret is geography. The area lies beyond the end of Lake S [...]
Edgewater and Rogers Park – A long, long time before the dawn
Edgewater condominiums sold for an average of $76,000 in 1979. During 1991 and the first six months of 1992 they sold for an average of $56,570.
In [...]
All highs, no lows: Looking for luxury near the North Side's lake shore
Today's "just for the fun of it" search: the priciest condos with three or more bedrooms, located on or near the lake in the major lakeside neighbor [...]
Comment of the day: throwing in the towel at the Renaissance Lofts
I'm still going to post the diary of a first time buyer...have all my emails and notes together, but recently I finally have had enough of this buildi [...]
Glasser promotes what others "critique"
Magellen Properties President Michael Glasser bought the domain name RogersPark.com fifteen years ago and continues to hone its function. While Roge [...]
Higher vacancy means higher density
Last week we read headlines about the extended downturn in the national rental market. Michael Glasser, founder of the Rogers Park Builders Group an [...]
When Rogers Park was a dirty word
Michael Glasser of Magellen Properties was one of the founding members of the Rogers Park Builders Group in the early '90s, when "Rogers Park was a [...]
The nearly news: a Rogers Park garden
Last weekend while touring Rogers Park open houses, I found this two-bedroom / one-bath condo resale that was completely rehabbed a year ago. Unit G [...]
The most important thing: Renting to own in Rogers Park
A few years ago there was a lot of development here, conversions. Some buildings were fully gutted with new electrical and plumbing, others, with the [...]
Customize a condo at West Sherwin Place
This weekend I took a look at some rehabbed condos at Baird & Warner's West Sherwin Place in Rogers Park. A sign out front exclaims "60% Sold!" [...]
Floor plan faceoff: lakeside living in two Rogers Park two-bedrooms
Turn east off of Sheridan in Rogers Park and you'll quickly run out of road, as just about every street cul-de-sacs at the edge of a beach or a lak [...]
Neighborhoods for the rest of us: Peterson Park
One of the oddest facts about the Peterson Park neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side is that that the 24-acre Peterson Park doesn't actually lie [...]
Chicago's new lofts: What's left?
The past year has done a number on the selection of new true lofts throughout the city. Some developments, like University Village, finally reached se [...]