U.S. Equities Signs O'Vie Bar and Grill, Increases Leasing Activity at MetraMarket
U.S. Equities Realty announced increased leasing activity at MetraMarket in the Ogilvie Transportation Center, including the addition of O'Vie Bar and Grill, a 12,680 square foot upscale restaurant and grill at the West Loop destination. MORE+
Chicago French Market Announces Four New Vendors
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Market Research — Sizing up Chicago's first marché
Located in the Ogilivie Transportation Center, Chicago French Market is a welcome addition for Loop commuters and nearby concrete-canyon dwellers. MORE+
Green Thoughts: Chicago French Market
Mix Matters 101.9 FM radio segment
The "Community" of the French Market Comes to Chicago
Chicago Chicago Public Radio Podcast
French Market Opens
No one with an appetite will be able to
resist the offerings at the Chicago
French Market, which opened Thursday
as part of MetraMarket in the Ogilvie
Transportation Center. MORE+
Chicago French Market Celebrates Grand Opening in Chicago's West Loop
Chicago’s first and only year-round, European-inspired indoor market gives consumers
convenient, permanent and personal access to local artisans, farmers and purveyors selling
an expansive assortment of food, wine, small batch goods and flowers. MORE+
More than 25 Local Artisans will make Chicago French Market an Enticing Culinary Destination
Chicago’s first and only year-round, European-inspired indoor market gives consumers
convenient, permanent and personal access to local artisans and purveyors selling
an expansive assortment of food, wine, small batch goods and flowers. MORE+
CVS/PHARMACY Grand Opening in MetraMarket
U.S. Equities has announced that CVS/pharmacy, the nation’s largest retail pharmacy chain, with approximately 6,900 stores celebrated the grand opening of its newest downtown Chicago location in MetraMarket on September 20, 2009. MORE+
Diverse Local Artisans to Make Chicago French Market an Enticing Culinary Destination
Local culinary favorites Pastoral, Vanille Patisserie and Flip Crepes are among the
many local vendors to be featured at MetraMarket’s French Market. MORE+
U.S. Equities Realty Signs Lavazza to MetraMarket
The award-winning Espression by Lavazza offers a genuine Italian café experience to
Chicagoans with its innovative coffee beverages and creative café menu. MORE+
Bensidoun brings French style, open-air markets
to the U.S.
Bensidoun is bringing a little bit of France
to Chicago. Actually, rather a lot of France.
So far the Paris-based company has established
11 French-style open-air markets on American
soil, most of which are in suburban Chicago.
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Construction starts on West Loop market
MetraMarket, a retail and restaurant project
inside Ogilvie Transportation Center, broke
ground last week. MORE+ Watch the video
U.S. Equities Realty's MetraMarket Begins
Construction
Urban Restaurant and Retail Marketplace Plans
to Open in Summer 2009. MORE+
From Bleak to Bistro
Seven years after it was proposed, construction
is set to begin Thursday on a European-style
market in the concourse of the Ogilvie Transportation
Center in the West Loop. MORE+
Metra to Open Marketplace Under Ogilvie
After years of delay, work will begin next
week on transforming a two-block stretch of
decrepit storage and parking space under the
Metra tracks at the Ogilvie Transportation Center
into a retail and dining center, officials said
Friday. MORE+
MetraMarket Bags $25 Million Construction
Loan
Despite a difficult environment for accessing
debt for commercial real estate projects, about
$25 million in construction financing has been
secured for MetraMarket, a retail development
in Chicago's West Loop. MORE+
Metra Embarks on Retail Project
Metra riders, your long wait for brie and aspirin
is near an end. Seven years after it was proposed,
work will get under way soon on a project to
transform a 100,000-squarefoot concourse at
Ogilvie Transportation Center into a mix of
stores and restaurants. MORE+
U.S. Equities Secures Financing for MetraMarket
U.S. Equities Realty, a leading full-service
real estate firm, announced today that it has
arranged and secured construction financing
for MetraMarket, a 100,000-square-foot retail
and restaurant development in Chicago’s
West Loop. MORE+
At Metra Stop, Fresh Foods to Spice Up Ride
Starting next year, Metra commuters who pass
through Ogilvie Transportation Center will be
able to buy everything from fresh baked goods
to produce at a French-style market that is
one of two anchor tenants in the long-awaited
MetraMarket project. MORE+
Hines to develop Chicago office tower
Plans are underway for a 45-story office tower in the West Loop in downtown Chicago. MORE+
BP Moving 1,200 Workers to the Merc
Oil giant BP PLC said Tuesday that it plans
to move about 1,200 employees from the western
suburbs to space in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
in Chicago. MORE+
EGI Sells 50%-Occupied 300 W. Adams for $23M
CHICAGO — -Samuel Zell and EGI Properties
have sold the 12- story building at 300 W. Adams
to Chicago-based Sterling Bay Cos. The sale
price was $23 million, or about $96 per sf,
says executive director John Gavin, with Cushman
& Wakefield, which represented the seller
along with Paul Lunstedt and Brian Nagle. MORE+
Kennedys, developer plan big Wolf Point project
Crain’s — A joint venture including
the Kennedy family and a Texas developer aims
to transform a long-vacant riverside property
just west of the Merchandise Mart into a massive
hotel, residential and office project anchored
by an 89-story skyscraper. MORE+
43-story, mixed-use building set for Loop
A decades-old surface parking garage will be
replaced with a mixed-use building with 329
apartments. Hinsdale-based Midwest Property
Group Ltd. will develop the project at 200-218
W. Lake St., through an entity called 210-218
W. Lake LLC, according to Lorie Bush, a Department
of Planning and Development project manager
who spoke to the Chicago Plan Commission. MORE+
Recycled Paper Greetings moving to West Loop
Recycled Paper Greetings Inc., which needed
a cash infusion in April from the private-equity
firm that bought the company 18 months ago,
is planning to move its headquarters downtown.
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A lot to soak up in the Fulton River District
Neighborhood is lively, peaceful at the same time. MORE+
Construction Complete on Echelon at K Station
CHICAGO – Construction was recently completed
on Echelon, a 350-unit apartment building at
353 N. DesPlaines St. in the K Station development.
Work is currently underway on Alta and Cirrus
in the $750-million K
Station, which is being developed by a joint
venture of Chicago-based Fifield Cos. and Pacific
Life Insurance Co., based in Newport Beach,
CA. MORE+
Reschke changes plan for West Loop site
Crain’s — Chicago developer Michael
W. Reschke is reworking his plan to develop
a long-vacant riverside site in the West Loop,
opting to build a hotel and apartments there
instead of condominiums.The revised proposal
for the parcel at 150 N. Riverside Plaza would
include a 300-room all-suites hotel and a 665-unit
luxury apartment tower, says Mr. Reschke, who
has controlled part of the site for 19 years.
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Fifield, Partner Eye $400M in Multifamily
Builds
CHICAGO — Fifield Cos., based here, is
forming a joint venture with Pacific Life Insurance
Co., headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, to
develop and finance apartment communities. The
joint venture plans to develop up to $400 million
in projects during the next two years. MORE+
Developer planning 2nd apartment tower downtown
As it gets ready to break ground on a 389-
apartment high-rise in the Loop, Jupiter Realty
Corp. is drawing up plans for another tower
just five blocks to the west that would include
as much as 150,000 square feet of office space
and 300 to 400 apartments. MORE+
Fifield Wraps 37-Story Apartment Tower
CHICAGO — The Fifield Cos. is wrapping
up construction of the Residences at Left Bank,
a 37-story luxury apartment building at 300
N. Canal St. The tower, located in the Kinzie
Station/Fulton River District, includes 451
apartments in 18 floor plans, including six
penthouses. MORE+
Rental Tower Beefs Up as Start Nears
CHICAGO — A long-awaited multifamily
rental building planned for the corner of Des
Plaines and Kinzie streets will be slimmer,
taller and have 35 more units than originally
expected. Revised unit, 39-story building at
the southeast corner, were endorsed Friday by
the plan commission. MORE+
6-tower project planned $750 million residential
complex set for area that housed Kinzie Station
A Chicago-based developer intends to build
a $750 million residential project near downtown
that it said will have enough scope and variety
to be a new neighborhood. It would include six
residential towers with 2,451 luxury apartments,
parking for 2,000 vehicles and 40,000 square
feet of retail space, plus a Jewel/Osco supermarket.
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