Highlights of the 2010 Lake Harriet ArtCar Parade Highlight #1: the couch that turned out to be motorized (and served as the parade’s pacesetter, er, vehicle). Highlight #2 (more like relief): finding out that the oblong shape covered with a white sheet with dancing people inside was supposed to be a zeppelin — vs., say,...Read More
Low Rates . . If You Qualify Last year, I heard that question from would-be Buyers maybe 3 times. This year, I’ve logged that question three times . . . just this week! And that, with mortgage rates plumbing all-time lows: just above 4.5% to those with impeccable credit. Which, of course, is the catch....Read More
50,000 Page Views — and Counting! Sometime earlier this month, the City Lakes Real Estate blog officially tripped 50,000 cumulative page views. And to think, I only account for perhaps 3,000 of those (in the course of editing and formatting posts, I do log in multiple times a day — and just occasionally to see...Read More
Development Formula There are more than 80 distinct Chicago neighborhoods, and dozens of unofficial ones. All [of them] pretty much feature an El station surrounded by retail. –Chicago resident and tour guide Evelyn Thompson, quoted in A Fresh Take on Chicago“; The Star Tribune (7/25/2010) Exactly. Time to get those light rail stations up and...Read More
