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  • 5 days ago | chicagobusiness.com | Danny Ecker

    Northbrook investor Parag Patel has extended his suburban hotel buying spree, picking up a Hilton Garden Inn in Evanston in his biggest bet yet on the recovery of the local hospitality sector. A venture led by Patel paid $23.7 million earlier this month for the 178-room hotel at 1818 Maple Ave. in the northern suburb, according to Cook County property records.

  • 1 week ago | chicagobusiness.com | Danny Ecker

    A Michigan developer that has been trying to kickstart a River North hotel project since 2016 has reduced its proposed size and dropped an affiliation with Hyatt in favor of a European hotel brand. Detroit-based Porritt Group now aims to develop a 15-story, 297-room hotel on a surface parking lot at 150 W. Hubbard St., according to a newsletter sent this week to constituents by 42nd Ward Ald. Brendan Reilly.

  • 1 week ago | chicagobusiness.com | Danny Ecker

    A transportation logistics company that expanded its East Loop office during the COVID-19 pandemic is now trying to get rid of it, a blemish on an otherwise bright spot industry for the vacancy-plagued Chicago office market. Third-party logistics provider Traffic Tech is offering its two-floor headquarters at 111 E. Wacker Drive for sublease, according to a marketing flyer.

  • 1 week ago | chicagobusiness.com | Danny Ecker

    A New York developer has landed $173 million in financing to kick off a 31-story apartment tower in the Fulton Market District, ending a nearly 18-month drought of major new ground-up projects downtown getting under way. Vista Property Group today announced it has secured a $151 million construction loan from CIBC and $22 million in preferred equity from investment firm PGIM Real Estate to build a 494-unit apartment building at 370 N. Morgan St. in the trendy former meatpacking neighborhood.

  • 1 week ago | chicagobusiness.com | Danny Ecker

    A local real estate firm paid just less than $5 million last week for part of a city block in the Fulton Market District, a sale that resolves a rare foreclosure lawsuit in the trendy corridor. A venture controlled by Chicago-based Range Group paid $4.7 million last week for a pair of buildings and a surface parking lot on the block bounded by Kinzie, Aberdeen and Carpenter streets and the Metra tracks running through the former meatpacking neighborhood, according to Range Principal Seth Halpern.

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Danny Ecker
Danny Ecker @DannyEcker
23 Jul 24

United Center owners proposing a $7 billion, 14 million SF megaproject on the parking lots around the arena. First phase could start in the spring and would include a 6,000-seat music hall, a hotel, new retail and public park space. https://t.co/tQXrlPx4vm

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Danny Ecker @DannyEcker
20 Mar 24

RT @CrainsChicago: Cubs seek approval for big rooftop signage across from Wrigley Field https://t.co/2TxRblEWlx

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Danny Ecker @DannyEcker
7 Jun 23

RT @jus10chi: In need of new investors for the Lincoln Yards mega-development , Sterling Bay has pitched the pension board investing on beh…