Not likely, says MCL Companies' Dan Mclean.
If anyone should know, it's McLean. He's among the savviest, most experienced players in Chicago's tiny group of elite real estate developers - and his company once owned the land the Spire will probably not rise on.
Developer Bill Senne began calling a part of Humboldt Park / Logan Square "West Bucktown" about a dozen years ago.
Will teh moniker stick? I don't know. I was skeptical 20 years ago when Senne and other real estate folk began calling a part of Wicker Park / Logan Square "Bucktown." Bucttown is now firmly established.
YoChicago.com's Joe Askins has visited the Trump International Hotel & Tower's amenities level before, but this time he's accompanied by sales manager Leah Harriet and Cyndy Salgado of Koenig & Strey GMAC Real Estate.
Trump's on-site amenities include a spa, a fitness center, an indoor pool, the restaurant Sixteen, the nightclub Rebar, an outdoor park and riverfront retail.
In November 2008, Joe Askins of YoChicago.com and NewHomeNotebook.com took a stroll through the eastern half of Uptown (basically the area bounded by Lake Michigan, Irving Park Road, Foster Avenue and the Red Line elevated tracks) in search of new-constructon condominiums and gut rehabs.
Mark Boyer from YoChicago.com visits the sales center of Silver Tower, a new 40-story high-rise that's currently under construction in Chicago's River North neighborhood.
Developer Paul Zucker and Joe Askins of YoChicago.com take a look around a finished unit at Zucker's Motor Row Lofts, located in the South Loop's historic Motor Row district.
Mark Boyer from YoChicago.com visits an open house at the LV Lofts in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood and discusses the project with Elizabeth Muscare from Rooney Realty.
In this segment of our interview, MCL
Companies' Dan McLean talks about River East, some of the projects he has underway in other cities, and Chicago's openness to development.
In this segment of our interview, MCL Companies' Dan McLean outlines some of the reasons he continues to build and expand to other cities beyond Chicago as other companies contract.
Jerry Houlihan, marketing director of Sutherland Pearsall Developers, walks us through a penthouse at Drexel Parc Lofts and talks about why he bought there.
Jerry and his fiancee moved from Wicker Park. He tells us about some of the neighborhood amenities, values, and who else is moving to the rapidly-changing neighborhood.
In this portion of Mark "First-Time" Boyer's condo search, Carol Dorsey from Prudential SourceOne Realty shows Mark around a few units in the Donahue Building at 711 S Dearborn St in the Printers Row neighborhood of Chicago
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