Tag: Uptown
Snap-shot: Andersonville condo sales
The Andersonville neighborhood will see its first major new construction condos since 2008 in the form of townhouses at 4832 N Clark. The attached [...]
Apartments slated for former Uptown hellhole
Add yet another project to Chicago's rental apartment boom.
Somerset Place, an Uptown hellhole that was shut down by the state three years ago, [...]
The Sheridan Park 6-flats, built to look like mansions
The 6-flat has long been one of Chicago's most popular housing types – so popular, in fact, that you can find very few in lakefront neighborhoods [...]
Twenty-three new rowhomes slated for Andersonville
The past half-dozen years have seen almost no new construction of rowhomes in the Andersonville area, despite the neighborhood's increasing popula [...]
A bulk sale of units planned at Buena Park’s Polo Tower
Polo Tower, 4180 N Marine Dr in the Buena Park section of Uptown, has a long history with YoChicago and its New Homes Magazine predecessor.
We [...]
Affordable new condos a half block from popular Chase Park
Chicago's grand parks may draw more attention, but they can't match the spirit of community and sense of ownership found in the city's popular nei [...]
Community meeting set for Maryville Academy site
Two weeks ago Uptown Update reported that JDL Development had signed an agreement to acquire the Maryville Academy site at Clarendon and Montrose [...]
New condos on Clark are priced to sell quickly
CMK Realty is about to begin marketing 40 new 1-bedroom, 2-bedroom and 2-bedroom plus den units at 4846 North Clark.
The units have a loft-like [...]
Stale quote of the day – Uptown floodgates are opening
Here's the lede to a TimeOut Chicago piece on 1325 W Wilson, an Uptown building that began its life as the the Norman Hotel in 1929, was rehabbed [...]
Updating an Uptown condo conversion face-off
Five years ago today we wrote about two Uptown condo conversions directly across the street from each other at 927 and 928 W Eastwood. We noted t [...]
There’s real estate theory, and then there’s Uptown
Five years ago we provided a sales update on 918-28 W Ainslie, a complete rehab of a vintage 38-unit courtyard in the Margate Park sub-neighborhoo [...]
Tracking MLS-listed north lakefront rentals
Last week we quietly began keeping track of the available inventory of homes and condos listed for rent in six north lakefront ZIP Codes in the lo [...]
They called it our bum-of-the-month club
We published print real estate newspapers and magazines until three years ago. We folded our popular New Homes Magazine, the last of our print pub [...]
Strong third quarter single-family sales on Chicago’s north side
The three months ending September 30 were a boon to single family home sales in several key north side neighborhoods, including Edgewater (up 91% [...]
Yesterday’s McMansions become today’s mansions
It’s anachronistic to refer to a home built in the early 1900s as a McMansion.
There were no golden arches in 1906 when the home at 920 W Cast [...]
Quote of the day: a symbol of Uptown’s ongoing dilapidation
It's been about 35 years since I first met an enthusiast for the Uptown Theatre and heard tales of its imminent revival and its promise to transfo [...]
Sheridan Park (mostly) open house gallery
Uptown Update has a list of 13 condos that are part of a coordinated open house effort this coming Sunday, September 11. The units range in size f [...]
Ten years later, buyers under water at Uptown’s Polo Tower
We first mentioned Polo Tower, a 189-unit high-rise condo conversion at 4180 N Marine Dr in Uptown, in October of 2001, in the print edition of ou [...]
Cooperative living at Stone Soup Ashland
If you like having lots of roommates you might want to check out Stone Soup Ashland, a cooperative living arrangement in a 100-year old convent wi [...]
Andersonville and Uptown – hot or not?
The Andersonville Daily, reprising an earlier Crain's article, touts Andersonville and Uptown (actually, ZIP code 60640) as having experienced the [...]