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Why These $20 Million Uptown Co-ops Aren’t Selling
Photo-Illustration: Curbed; Photo: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images For years, buying an apartment at 740 Park meant something. And that something was, quite simply, that you’d won. It was not a building for those on the make; it was a building for those who’d made it, the socially and financially dominant. The childhood home of Jackie Kennedy Onassis (her grandfather built the place in 1929), 740 Park counted John D. Rockefeller Jr., a Chrysler heiress, and numerous financiers among its first residents. In the boom periods of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s, apartments routinely fetched record prices, sometimes provoking bidding wars between billionaires. In 2000, Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman…
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New 12-story Uptown office tower lands first tenant
A new office tower on the rise in Uptown has its first tenant, a firm already very familiar with the project site. Chicago Title will occupy 20,000 square feet of office space in The Quad, the 12-story tower Dallas-based Stream Realty Partners is building at Howell and Routh streets in Uptown. The global title insurer has had 15,600 square feet of office space in 2828 Routh St., an existing building on the same block as The Quad, for more than a decade. It will leave that space once the new building is complete. Clark Pulliam, director of operations and counsel at Chicago Title, said the new office development will make…
