J. Linn Allen

`Eatertainment" will not take over River North, declares Albert Friedman. Already the biggest property owner in the neighborhood west of North Michigan Avenue, Friedman is planning on expanding his empire...

New York financier Howard Milstein is a big sports fan, so he bought a 50 percent stake in the New York Islanders hockey team and is going after the Cleveland...

Amid the stock market-fed storm of mergers and acquisitions, a dissenting voice decries the value of bigness, at least when it comes to real estate. Dave Liniger, chairman and co-founder...

Some of the top people in the real estate investment world don't think Congress is going to do much to upset the barrelling growth of REITs, which have zoomed in...

Ben Borenstein, a long-time fixture in Chicago's real estate construction business, likes to tell a story redolent of the piquant aroma of the building game in the city. See, there's...

Chicago, which was the top market for office building investment in the country last year, is beginning to get heightened attention in apartment building investment as well. The unlikely spearhead...

It's lucky there's a Club Macanudo opening up next week at 60 E. Walton St. After all, the players flocking to all the plush hotels that will be rubbing shoulders...

Wall Street wisdom suggests that when you hear people publicly recommending a stock, it's probably time to get out. By the time insider knowledge becomes public, its peak value has...

Seems like every property owner is "evaluating options" these days. In other words, they've got the itch to sell in a hot market. One owner of some major Chicago buildings...

There's a small hotel, with a wishing well. . . . So goes the old Broadway tune, and in fact there's more than one small hotel coming to downtown Chicago....