J. Linn Allen

The story is making the rounds these days about a Chicago office building developer who recently made the quintessential Windy City Big-Shoulders, Ain't-Ready-For-Reform, Mike Ditka-type comment: "Pre-leasing is for sissies."...

More than a month after the plan to bring a Macy's department store to Block 37 fell through, the future of the Loop's leading liability is still as murky as...

Sam Zell, chairman of Lots of Things, is starting to rival author Tom Wolfe in the field of real estate satire. Wolfe, in his new book "A Man in Full,"...

Much of the commercial real estate world is in a state of stunned paralysis. Buyers aren't buying, sellers aren't selling and lenders are sitting with their hands in their pockets....

Michael Lerner, head of MCZ Development and loft-converter extraordinaire on the fringes of the Loop, is rewarding himself for his successes with a really big Italian meal. He's planning to...

John Huston, executive vice president of Skokie-based American Landmark Properties, has reason to feel pleased with life. Last June, his company and New York finance group Intell Management and Investment...

Talk about turf wars. Dominick's Finer Foods and Jewel Food Stores are like two kids in a school-lunch line trying to elbow each other out of the way. They've been...

Expect a lot of fancy maneuvering and coalition building for the purpose of raising money among commercial property investors in the months to come, especially among real estate investment trusts....

While plans for office buildings downtown are mostly gathering dust after being unrolled earlier this year with much fanfare, there seems to be no stopping the momentum of suburban office...

The term "empty nester," a staple in promotional materials put out by builders targeting Baby Boomers whose children have left home, is under attack--and not just by the cliche police....