Tag: Streeterville
A high-floor duplex at Chicago’s Water Tower Place
Join Tina Culver on the 67th and 68th floors of Water Tower Place for a video tour of a showplace decorator home.
The 2-bedroom home, with two-and- [...]
The priciest one-bedroom in Chicago
I didn't mean to write anything else about this building for a while -- it just happened that way.
As the headline says, this is the priciest one-bed [...]
Construction checkup: Ritz-Carlton Residences
With yesterday's sales update still in mind, I took a detour to the Mag Mile during my lunch break to get a look at the Ritz-Carlton Residences, und [...]
Crain's: Three sales in three months for Ritz-Carlton Residences
You know times have changed when three pre-construction sales can make headlines. Crain's reports that the 88-unit Ritz-Carlton Residences, under cons [...]
The Pearson, then and now
My latest random selection from the Yo file cabinets is a promotional packet for The Pearson, the westernmost of Related Midwest's three "Residence [...]
Walking Lake Shore Drive: Joe and Francesca on 680 Lake Shore
680 Lake Shore Drive was formerly the American Furniture Mart, and had an address of 666 N Lake Shore Dr. After the building's conversion to a mixed [...]
A $2.6 million short sale on the Mag Mile
The most expensive short sale I can find in Chicago is this duplex penthouse at Chicago Place, on the northwest corner of Huron Street and Michigan Av [...]
Walking the drive with Francesca: 850 LSD, 840 LSD, and Lake Shore Park
The only rental building Joe Zekas and Realtor Francesca Rose passed during their walk down Lake Shore Drive earlier this summer was the luxury seni [...]
Renting Streeterville on the cheap – the Hancock Center
Renting a condo in Streeterville can be a cheap alternative to renting in one of the newer high-rises. That’s “cheap” in a relative rather than an a [...]
Yo's list – A guide to renting Streeterville apartments and condos
There are 1,000s of ads on Craigslist for Streeterville apartments, most of them featuring the eleven (that's all there are) rental high-rises in th [...]
The busiest buildings in Streeterville
Anytime I bring up Redfin's past sales information, I feel the need to qualify that the information isn't entirely accurate -- to my knowledge, most o [...]
Walking the Drive: Mies' four black boxes
In this segment from their Lake Shore Drive walk, Joe Zekas and Francesca Rose look at the Mies van der Rohe-designed co-ops at 860-880 N Lake Shore [...]
Then and now: Water Tower Place
Here's what our 1992 Co-ops & Condos sourcebook had to say about Water Tower Place, the 74-story high-rise and shopping center at 180 E Pearson St in [...]
Waiting it out: Olympia Centre studio nearing 1,000 days on the market
Do good things come to those who wait? And wait? and wait? The owner of one 650 square-foot studio at Olympia Centre must think so. He or she has ha [...]
Small homes not a sacrifice for new buyers
From MSNBC's "The big thinking in condos now is to get small":
“For Gen Y, the home is a place to live out of, not to live in. They don’t think of [...]
Streeter places: One-bedrooms with dens at two Streeterville rental towers
The floor plans above represent your options for one-bedroom apartments with dens at Golub & Company's two Solomon Cordwell Buenz-designed towers i [...]
Spacious apartments in a Streeterville high-rise
Think you can't afford the amount of space you're craving in a Streeterville high-rise? You might reconsider after seeing the large studios and one- [...]
Around the bend at 999 North Lake Shore Drive
At the eastern end of East Lake Shore Drive, where the road curves back to the south and becomes North Lake Shore Drive once more, is 999 North Lake [...]
Auction of soap scribe's Streeterville penthouse opening at $600,000
Ever wonder where soap opera writers conjure up all those scandalous schemes and torrid love affairs? For more than 30 years, multiple Daytime Emmy [...]
A southeast corner three-bedroom with a perfect view of Navy Pier
Join developer Buzz Ruttenberg, founder of the Belgravia Group, in a walk through a three-bedroom, 3.5-bath corner unit at his most recent high-rise [...]