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Shadowy Being Lurking About In Chicago's Wicker Park

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I received the following account (Weds. August 23, 2017) from a witness who lives in the vicinity of N. Leavitt St. and W. Le Moyne St. in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, IL: I guess I'm reluctant to speak about it because I know what I saw; it's hard to believe that it's real. I'm still feeling pretty uncomfortable . I can provide my number if necessary for you. I am not trying to be difficult, but I am just still shocked by everything. On Monday, August 21st, around 8:20 pm (Central Time) I was on a phone call for about forty minutes. I took the call in my bedroom in my apartment. I am in a third-floor unit, the window in my bedroom overlooks the backyard of the building next to me. To the right of this window, about 5-6 feet away is the neighbor's roof, it is not close enough for anyone to reach my window unaided. There is no balcony or ladder up to my window as well. About mid-way through the phone call, out the window, which was to my right, (with the...

StoneBridge Investments Acquires 272-Unit Veridian at Sandy Springs Apartment Community

ATLANTA, GA - StoneBridge Investments of Washington, DC has acquired Veridian at Sandy Springs, a 272- unit apartment community in the greater Atlanta submarket of Sandy Springs, for $32 million. The seller, a fund managed by Covenant Capital Group , LLC, was represented by Mike Kemether and Travis Presnell of Cushman & Wakefield. Elliott Throne, Gregg Shapiro, and Ware Shipman of HFF secured acquisition financing through a Freddie Mac loan .Built in 1980 and extensively renovated, Veridian is located at 1800 Windridge Drive within the Perimeter Center , a fast-growing “edge city” that encompasses three small cities: Brookhaven, Dunwoody, and Sandy Springs. It is Atlanta’s largest employment center , with more than 123,000 employees, 31 million square feet of office space, three major hospitals , and six million SF of retail space including the 1. 5 million SF Perimeter Center Mall .“Having acquired a neighboring apartment community , 550 Abernathy, earlier this year, we remai...

Denver Rent Prices So High Most Renters Want to Move

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A new study maintains that two-thirds of Denver renters plan to move to another city, a figure higher than the national average, with most listing high rent costs in the Mile High City  as the main reason. At the same time, however, so many people from other places want to move here that the actual number of renters in Denver is likely to remain steady in the near future and could actually rise. These are among the findings in a provocative report from Apartment List. As laid out in the following Q&A with analyst Sydney Bennet , who was heavily involved in the project, renting Denverites have a variety of reasons for wanting to relocate. But the number of those who are considering such a move because of long commute times or concerns about safety, for instance, pale in comparison to folks who simply are having a hard time stretching their dollars far enough to keep a decent roof over their head. As the study notes, the 67 percent of Denver renters who are looking at other lan...