About ten months ago we mentioned that two neighboring downtown Chicago residential skyscrapers were for sale: Echelon at K Station (353 North Desplaines Street) and Alta at K Station (555 West Kinzie Street). Echelon must be the cuter kid of the two because today it was sold, alone, to...
Echelon and Alta at ...
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If you won the lottery last night, and aren’t sure what to do with all that money, I’ve got one word for you: “Skyscrapers.” The residential towers Alta at K Station (555 West Kinzie Street), and Echelon at K Station (353 North DesPlaines Street) are both for sale....
One More Alta Vista
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I got an e-mail from the PR company for Alta at K Station (550 West Kinzie Street) over the weekend with an update on the money being raised for Japanese disaster relief by the residents of that Fulton River District tower. (See our previous coverage here) The total as of last Friday (April...
Chicago’s Roof...
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At what temperature does a pool party turn into a polar bear plunge? That was the question answered Saturday morning when 22 residents of Alta at K Station (550 West Kinzie Street) braved wind chill and water to open the Chicago rooftop pool season. Though the air temperature was a...
Fifield Named Chicag...
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Fifield Realty has been named Developer of the Year in Chicago. I won’t go too much into this because the entire press release is attached to this message. But I like Fifield’s recent projects because they have taken an ugly corner of Chicago and helped transform it into a nice...
The Greening of K St...
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Another big Chicago project has gone officially green. At a time when a lot of developers and architects are shunning LEED, Alta at K Station has become the largest apartment building in America to earn LEED Gold certification. The press release follows in its entirety. Fifield Cos.’s Alta...