J. Linn Allen

Rental apartment construction, shunned by developers for most of the 1990s, has been making a comeback in Chicago's central area, and architect/developer Jim Loewenberg thinks that even more projects will...

Is another real estate cycle beginning its turn? Fears about a glut of space in the suburban office market are growing as construction rages on, significantly outpacing demand. A new...

`I don't think there's a ghost of a chance that building will be built," said developer Steven Fifield. Fifield has shown his own brand of moxie as a risk-taking maestro...

`In the long-term, the stock market takes care of itself if you show . . . growth," said Neil Young, chairman of Grubb & Ellis Co. Probably there have been...

Until a couple of years ago, Henry Maday was running a wholesale greenhouse on about eight acres in Calumet City, a business he'd had since 1964. In 1994, his property...

In the final scheduled week of the state legislative session, one of the many measures apparently left dead on the battlefield is a move that would have challenged the dominance...

Columbia College, which just over a month ago purchased the 1891-vintage Ludington Building at 1104 S. Wabash Ave., has acquired another South Loop landmark of a different sort, Buddy Guy's...

Real estate entrepreneurs Howard Weiner and Bill Moran have come out winners in the Chicago development game, a high-stakes hustle with rules that would look funny even in Las Vegas....

Once upon a time, commercial real estate brokers found space for companies that needed it. No longer. Now they provide counseling. Like the psychiatrist who says, "Why don't you sit...

The likelihood of more than one tall office building going up anytime soon in the Loop has diminished with Goldman, Sachs & Co. renewing its lease for expanded space in...