Tag: West Loop
FitzGerald has big plans for One South Halsted
A couple summers ago, Gazette Chicago reported that Skokie-based F&F Realty planned to build a 514-unit apartment building with "hotel-style amenities [...]
565 Quincy and the West Loop at the start of a new year
565 Quincy is a new high-rise condo tower built on top of an existing loft building. At the time of Joe's visit last week, 27 of Quincy's 240 loft [...]
New loft and condo models in the West Loop
The new high-rise at 565 Quincy, in the West Loop, sits atop an existing loft building.
Last week I visited the community for a sponsored tour [...]
Condo rental inventory dries up in 60606
The 60606 ZIP code isn't much of a residential area compared to many downtown ZIPs. The homes listed for sale there are concentrated in a handful [...]
King of the FSBO holdouts: Three years and counting for a Gotham Loft
Although Redfin tracks units for sale by owner, I normally don't include these homes in my own searches and number-crunching. They're fun to look at [...]
The other pieces of the Sunrise scam
Our angle on the indictment of three Sunrise Equities principals naturally focused on the Pure building at 24 S Morgan St in the West Loop, simply bec [...]
Grand jury: Pure was a Ponzi scheme
Anyone who has followed the story of Pure over the past two years knows the building is anything but. Today, a federal grand jury indicted the dev [...]
A one-of-a-kind, combo corner loft in the West Loop, priced at $1.15M
Earlier this week, Niko Apostal of Coldwell Banker and the Apostal Group showed me around one of his newest listings, a 4,400 square-foot corner loft [...]
What Yelpers say about Presidential Towers
With 20 entries to its name, Presidential Towers, 555 W Madison St, is the second most reviewed development in the downtown area at Yelp. Why does it [...]
@properties slashing prices at rebranded 770 Lofts in Greektown
Today Crain's dished on @properties' aggressive new sales campaign at 770 Lofts, the adapted-use development at 770 W Gladys Ave in Greektown once p [...]
Emerald's functional living spaces
New construction condo buyers too often face cramped living / dining areas, "bedrooms" that lack walls and windows, poorly-designed baths, and shotg [...]
The social spaces of Emerald
John Robert Wiltgen went for a whimsical, eco-friendly tone when he designed the lobby and common spaces at Emerald, 125 S Green St in the West Loop [...]
Inside the completed Adams Sangamon Park
As promised, here's new video from inside the newly completed and opened Adams Sangamon Park in the West Loop. Alderman Bob Fioretti and several Wes [...]
Adams Sangamon Park is open
A lot of people have found YoChicago in the past two months through searches for Adams Sangamon Park. Traffic to my peek inside the park has picked [...]
Inside a remodeled two-bedroom at the Park Alexandria in the West Loop
Earlier this summer Ted Guarnero and I visited the Park Alexandria at 125 S Jefferson Ave in the West Loop, where Ted is marketing unit #2004, a rem [...]
"A jungle of crumbling tenements"
It is a jungle of crumbling tenements, twisted shacks and filthy alleys. It is an open jail for men who are guilty of no greater crime than being poo [...]
Sales update – 565 Quincy in the West Loop
When we last checked in with 565 Quincy, about a month ago, the Belgravia Group development had sold approximately 100 units after dropping prices ear [...]
Two levels of loft living at Metropolitan Place
Last month Ted Guarnero, our Chicago Loft Guide, took me through a duplex loft inside Metropolitan Place, 130 S Canal St, that he had recently liste [...]
Putting the "park" in Park Alexandria
With a couple of lightly rolling hills, a full green lawn, and a dog park bigger than some buildings' entire common outdoor area, the sundeck at Par [...]