Posts Tagged ‘Tribune’

New look planned for proposed hotel on Tacoma’s old brewery site

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

The developers of a proposed 160-room hotel on the site of Tacoma’s old Columbia-Heidelberg Brewery say they’re redesigning the hotel after its preliminary design failed to impress historic preservationists on a city board.
Han Kim, principal at Seattle’s Hotel Concepts, said Monday that he’s hired Albany, Ore., architect Don Johnson to modify the initial design to [...]

Median home sale price remains steady in borough

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Keith Nowalk has had two houses on the market in Plum for a few years.
One house originally was listed at just under $500,000 and the other is listed close to $65,000. He can’t seem to sell either house. He’s cut the more expensive price by $150,000 over the last three years and moved a [...]

‘Wellness’ becomes condo selling point

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]

New law alters condo landscape

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

The husband-and-wife real estate team of Norm and Janice Holloway sells more Venice condominiums than just about anybody.
But when the couple settled into their own waterfront abode at Pointe Whitecap in Venice nearly six years ago, Norm promised Janice that he would never sell it out from under her.
“I told her, ‘You can live here [...]

Trump on hand to mark completion of hotel floors

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Donald Trump will be in town Thursday to mark completion of the hotel portion, up to the 29th floor, of the 92-story, $850 million Trump International Hotel & Tower overlooking the Chicago River.
The hotel is scheduled to open in December.
Trump will also be trying to generate sales of residential units in the building. Usually, [...]

Kerkorian’s interest in MGM casinos puzzling

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Disgraced former Providence mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci , long known for his panache and flamboyance, plans to make his return to public life in similar fashion: When he gets out of federal prison next week, a front office job at the ultra swank Fifteen Beacon hotel awaits.
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian already owns a controlling 56 percent [...]

Condo boom thunderous

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007

As the debate over affordable housing picks up steam, a new study analyzing 15 years of Chicago’s boom in residential construction found that for every 1,000 condominium units a neighborhood gained, it lost, on average, 27 small apartment buildings and about six large ones.
The study, to be released Monday, offers the sharpest snapshot yet of [...]

Sales brisk for planned Lincoln Park 2520 condo development

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

After just three weeks of public marketing, 104 of the 314 units in the first large condo building planned for Lincoln Park since the 1970s are under purchase agreements with 10 percent deposits, said the developer, John T. Murphy, co-principal of Ricker-Murphy Development LLC.
Despite a slowing housing market elsewhere, the units at Lincoln Park [...]

Local real estate bucks trend and draws students to jobs

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Even as experts fret over a dramatic burst of the bulging U.S. real estate bubble that might send prices plunging across the nation, the land and housing values in the Potomac Highlands are defying the trend.
“With an average unit price of $174,503 and a lot of wild life,” the RealtyTimes.com reported last month, “the buyers [...]

Bachelorette’s got a new condo and nothing to be sorry about

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

You could say Jen Schefft puts her money where her mouth is. After years of renting in Old Town, the star of ABC’s “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” recently bought a condo in River North. Becoming a homeowner, especially when not in a relationship, is just the kind of thinking she advocates in her new [...]

Tribune Considering Late Offer From Real Estate Magnate

Monday, February 26th, 2007

The Tribune Company, in discussions about its future, is weighing a proposal from Sam Zell, the Chicago real estate maverick and billionaire who sold his huge office development company this month for $39 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout ever.
A special committee of Tribune board members was close to settling on an internal overhaul when [...]

Owner of apartment complex booting tenants

Saturday, February 24th, 2007

VENICE — One disgruntled tenant took a complaint about a leaky toilet to the city.
Now, everyone in the building is looking for a new place to live.
Harvey Wasserman stunned residents and left them scrambling to find new homes after he notified them Monday they have 30 days to vacate Whispering Sands. Wasserman faces three code [...]


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