Are happy days here again in real estate? By: Ryan Ori and Alby Gallun After a half-decade slog, Chicago’s commercial real estate market is on the verge of something unseen since the recession: across-the-board growth. “We’re clearly a market out of boom-and-bust mode,” says Robert Kramp, research director for the Midwest and Great Lakes at […]

Developers see life on rundown stretch of Michigan Avenue By: Alby Gallun Michigan Avenue’s dead zone is coming to life. Developers are descending on the dreary three-block stretch south of the Chicago River, still mainly just a place tourists pass through on their way to Millennium Park or office workers go to grab lunch. Four […]