We chattered about this 2-bedroom ”Mies Van der Rohe-inspired” unit near IIT at 3120 S. Indiana in Bronzeville last January.
It finally closed in June 2009 for $11,100 under the 2005 purchase price.
See our prior chatter and pictures of the interior here.
Unit #401: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1300 square feet
Sold in December 2005 for $239,000
Was listed in January 2009 […]
The City of Chicago has designated the area commonly known as “The Gap” on the South Side of the city a landmark district.
It’s boundaries are 3100 to 3500 South on Prairie, Calumet and Giles.
(Some also label this area as part of Bronzeville.)
This 3-bedroom duplex down renovated greystone condo at 3362 S. Prairie has been on and off […]
The modern look isn’t confined simply to the north side of the city as this 32-unit David Hovey-designed complex at 3120 S. Indiana in the Bronzeville/The Gap neighborhood attests.
The listing says “Mies Van der Rohe inspired” and so it seems, with floor to ceiling windows and open space.
Akos Straub at Jameson Realty has the listing. See […]
We last chattered about this Bronzeville unit at 74 E. Pershing in December 2007.
It is still on the market and has been reduced $90,000.
Here’s the current listing:
STUNNING NEW CONSTRUCTION IN BRONZEVILLE! STATE OF THE ART UNIQUE 3000SQ/FT DUPLEX UP HAS AMAZING LIVING SPACE. HWD FLRS THRU-OUT. COOKS KITCHEN W/SS BOSCH APPL, GRANITE, GREAT CABINETS, & […]
In Bronzeville, there are a few blocks that make up the Calumet/Giles Prairie District- otherwise known as “The Gap”. The area barely survived the wrecking ball in the 1950s and 1960s.
It stretches from the 3100 to 3500 blocks of Calumet, Giles and Prairie Avenues and is made up mostly of vintage rowhouses.
3220 S. Prairie, a rowhouse built […]
It used to be, before the boom, that living in funky units in far out locations meant it was dirt cheap. Ten years ago, you could buy a condo in Printers Row for $80,000. The first wave of gentrifiers was rewarded with price appreciation.
Not anymore.
Described in the listing as “3000 square feet of supurb luxury” this condo in […]
Amid much fanfare, including Mayor Daley himself, the first Starbucks in the Bronzeville neighborhood opened last week at 35th and State, near the former home of the infamous Stateway Gardens public housing projects, which have been torn down. A new mix-use housing development is going in in its place. (Photo above taken by John Scanlon, at […]