Why boomers, not millennials, are fueling the urban apartment surge
“When Chicagoland developer Michael McLean was building Centrum, a 12-story apartment building in Evanston, a lakefront suburb and university town on the doorstep of Chicago, the target occupant might have seemed obvious. Set amid a walkable downtown of shops, restaurants, and easy transit access to Chicago, the 101-unit high-rise, like so many that have gone up in cities and commuter suburbs across the country, would appear custom-made for millennials”