J. Linn Allen

John Bucksbaum, chief executive of Chicago shopping center titan General Growth Properties Inc., thinks he's figured out how to marry the Internet to the shopping mall--or, as he puts it,...

Despite all the consolidation going on in real estate companies, you don't have to be big to do big deals. Just ask Chicago tenant representative Pamela Rose, who is the...

Despite the growing mass of commercial real estate information on the Internet, investors aren't exactly sitting in bed with their laptops buying and selling buildings. A survey by Marcus &...

Like Alice when she took a bite of cake, an embattled Chicago condominium project has been growing smaller and smaller. Finally, it appears ready to enter the wonderland of the...

Developer Steven Fifield, who dropped his option for the Medinah Temple property in Chicago's River North when the city put the kibosh on his proposal to use it as a...

The mystery deepens over potential financing for Chicago's attempt at a new world's tallest building. Scott Toberman, president of European American Realty Ltd., the developer of the proposed stratospheric broadcast/condo/office...

If the world falls apart on Jan. 1, at least we'll have corn flakes for breakfast. Drew Axelson, Midwest regional vice president for National Distribution Centers, a Vineland, N.J.-based warehousing...

Lend Lease Real Estate Investments Inc., a major backer of John Buck Co.'s brand-new $300 million office project at 1 N. Wacker Drive, is preaching what it practices. A joint...

Ald. Burt Natarus (42nd), whose approval is key to getting projects built in his downtown ward, says the biggest issue facing the ambitious proposal for a residential, hotel and office...

Charles E. Smith Residential Realty Inc.--an Arlington, Va.-based rental apartment operation that bought its first Chicago building here two years ago and now claims to have the area's largest rental...