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Wirtz family selling Evanston apartment buildings for $35 million

The Wirtz family is cashing out of Evanston, selling its entire 164-unit vintage apartment portfolio in the north suburb to a Chicago investor amid a seller’s market for rental housing.

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A $40 million portfolio deal has made Chicago-based North Park Ventures the newest Minneapolis apartment building owner.

The Haverhill Apartments, located near Loring Park on the edge of downtown Minneapolis, is one of eight buildings acquired by Chicago-based North Park Ventures out of the KMS Management portfolio.

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Lakeview property fetches $32 million in condos to apartments deal

After losing its original financial partner as the coronavirus swept into Chicago, North Park Ventures found a new one to back the condo deconversion.

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North Park Ventures does condo deconversion shuffle in Evanston

Chicago made it harder for investors to turn condo buildings into rentals, so many have been looking to the suburbs

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Evanston condo building fetches $17 million

After Chicago passed an ordinance last fall making it harder to convert condo buildings into apartments, suburbs like Evanston have become a more popular hunting ground for multifamily investors.

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Interra Realty brokers $4 million sale of mixed use asset in Chicago's Old Town Triangle

Interra Realty facilitated the $4 million sale of 1935-43 N. Sedgwick Street, a mixed-use property in Chicago’s Old Town Triangle historic district.

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476-key Fulton Market hotel project wins key approval

North Park Ventures’ 21-story development, along with 2 other West Loop projects from Trammell Crow and Marquette Companies passed the planning commission this week

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North Park Ventures eyes 19-story hotel and office complex in Fulton Market

North Park Ventures is looking to get in on the Fulton Market office — and hotel — bandwagon with a 19-story building near the gateway to the neighborhood.

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Developer plans pair of apartment buildings in Lakeview

A firm that recently bought out 30 condos in a vintage building on Clark Street in Lakeview plans to convert them to rentals and replace their parking lot with a new five-story building, for a total of 52 new apartments.

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Parking lots disappearing in ride sharing era as downtown construction booms

They may have paved paradise and put up a parking lot, as Joni Mitchell once sang, but these days the lots themselves are Chicago’s real estate utopia.

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Longtime owner of Fountain Square Theatre sells building

After nearly 25 years, Linton Calvert has sold the iconic home of duckpin bowling to Chicago-based real estate firm North Park Ventures LLC.

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A Lincoln Square two flat transformed

A century-old two-flat in Lincoln Square has become a handsome single-family home, its classic sun porches and extra-wide layout filling the interior with light.

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New Owners To Double The Apartments In This Vintage West Town Building

The new owners of a West Town apartment building are looking to capitalize on renter demand in the neighborhood by more than doubling the building's apartment offerings.

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Natalino's Building Sells For $3.45 Million; Apartments Planned Next Summer

A vintage building in West Town's Eckhart Park that formerly was anchored by Italian restaurant Natalino's sold for $3.45 million on Monday, according to its new owners who plan to bring 15 apartments and a restaurant to the site.

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Century-Old West Town Building To Become Apartments After $1.1 Million Sale

Developers of the Eckhardt lofts above the former Rothschild liquors on Chicago Avenue have bought an old building up the street from that project, and are planning an extensive renovation with at least six duplex apartments.

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Loft Apartments Above Former Rothschild Liquors Unveiled In West Town

Eckhardt Lofts — eight one-bedroom apartments above the former Rothschild Liquor Mart in West Town — are ready for April tenants. "We just officially put them on the market yesterday morning and have had an amazing response..."

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