Work is set to begin this month on a 1.5 million-square-foot office tower alongside Union Station, after the developers landed a $476 million construction loan. BMO Tower will be under construction once demolition of a parking garage is completed on the site at 320 S. Canal St., said John O’Donnell, CEO of Riverside Investment & Development. The loan is from BMO Harris Bank, Bank of America ... Read More

Dec. 3--The Palace of Auburn Hills will live at least another month. Auburn Hills' mayor said Tuesday that the city has not issued any demolition permits for the empty sports and concert venue, once home to the Detroit Pistons. However, the Schostak Brothers & Co. development firm is expected to begin seeking a permit in the coming weeks, and "exterior demolition" of the Palace then could ... Read More

A Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage in Glencoe could be spared a date with a wrecking crew, but it’s unclear if preservationists can put together funds to move the house to another spot in the north suburb. The cottage, a flat-roofed, one-story frame house built in 1913 for real estate developer Sherman Booth, drew national attention last spring when its new owners filed for a permit to tear ... Read More

Northeast Minneapolis residents had big dreams for the prime land on the southeast corner of the Shoreham Yards railroad terminal -- new businesses, maybe a brewery or even a velodrome for indoor cycling. The site, once home to a historic roundhouse used to store steam locomotives, was a desirable redevelopment target for two decades. But now Canadian Pacific Railway, which owns the 230-acre ... Read More

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — After a year that has seen some of the worst flooding ever in parts of the Midwest, concern is already rising that the spring of 2020 may bring more high water to places that still haven’t fully recovered. Flooding ravaged much of the Missouri and Mississippi River basins and their tributaries earlier this year, reaching record levels and overwhelming levees in many ... Read More

A developer, whose plans to replace a Barnes & Noble bookstore with a 39-story apartment tower were rejected by a Chicago alderman, bought the property anyway. The $61 million deal could foreshadow more rounds of zoning negotiations for the space on the Near North Side, which now contains the bookstore and a Lou Malnati’s pizzaria. An affiliate of Chicago-based Newcastle Ltd. bought the ... Read More

Sixty homes were temporarily without gas Tuesday night in the Brainerd neighborhood on the South Side after a construction crew ruptured a gas main, authorities said. About 7:30 p.m., emergency crews were notified about the ignition at 8943 S. Marshfield Ave. A worker broke through a medium-pressure gas line, sparking a fire, according to the Chicago Fire Department and Peoples Gas. No one was ... Read More

Search and rescue crews scouring the rubble of a partially collapsed downtown Cincinnati building located the body of a missing worker Tuesday, according to officials. City manager Patrick Duhaney announced that the body had been found in a letter to the mayor and city council, saying the situation remains "fluid" and more information will be released when "appropriate." "The heart of the City ... Read More