If you're going to be looking for an apartment in downtown Chicago over the next two years you're in luck - they're building a lot.
The Chicago Tribune recently published an article examining a building boom in progress and took a count of all the new construction rental apartments that will be coming online in the next two years. It's a big number - 8,000.
The building boom is also extending beyond the Loop, to the West Loop, South Loop, River North and Streeterville. Add to that the well-reported building boom that will bring 1500 or so apartments along Milwaukee Avenue on the city's Northwest Side and a recent surge in developer interest in Transit-Oriented Development - a concept that encourages density near rail, and the city is destined for more density and soon.
Read more at the Chicago Tribune here and Curbed Chicago here.
