13 Years Later is Helmut Jahn’s 600 N. Fairbanks in Streeterville Still Hot? A 2-Bedroom
This 2-bedroom on the twenty second floor in 600 N. Fairbanks in Streeterville came on the market in June 2019.
600 N. Fairbanks was designed by famed architect Helmut Jahn. It was built in 2007, just as the housing bust was about to happen, but most of the units in the building were already sold, and closed on, by the time the Great Recession hit.
It has 212 units and an attached parking garage. It’s a full amenity building with a doorman, indoor pool, exercise room and clubhouse.
The building was construction with a modern and urban design including exposed concrete ceilings and floor-to-ceiling windows.
This unit has north and west views with 10 foot ceilings.
The kitchen has dark Snaidero cabinets, which were standard in all units, stone counter tops and back splash along with upscale appliances including a Subzero refrigerator and Wolf range.
The master suite has a built-out walk-in-closet and a stone bath with a separate tub and walk-in shower.
The unit has custom roller shades that are included.
The unit has the finishes buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and deeded parking is available for $55,000.
The listing says there are no specials planned, even with an upcoming lobby “re-decorating”, and there are over $2 million in reserves.
This building didn’t see much distress during the Great Recession as others completed around the same time.
Does it still hold the crown as one of the hottest buildings in Streeterville?
Michael Maier at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #2205: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1253 square feet
- Sold in December 2007 for $579,500 (included the parking)
- Originally listed in June 2019 (I couldn’t find the price)
- Withdrawn in November 2019
- Currently listed at $663,000 (parking is $55,000 extra)
- Assessments of $735 a month (including a/c, gas, doorman, cable, Internet, clubhouse, pool, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $11,700
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 12×18
- Bedroom #2: 11×11
- Kitchen: 10×11
- Living/dining room: 19×31
- Laundry room: 3×4
- Walk-in-closet: 5×7
“The unit has custom roller blades that are included.”
by which you mean roller shades??
6/8/19 – $710k
7/17/19 – $700k
9/25/19 – $668
Has all the warmth of a Warsaw Ghetto
“The unit has custom roller blades that are included.”
But are dayglo shorts and a tank top included?
It looks cramped but I wonder if that is just because of the naked concrete walls and ceiling. I never understood the appeal but to each their own.
yuck….i never understood the appeal of unfinished concrete walls. Feels like they partitioned off part of a parking garage and made it a living area. lol
a Two bedroom closed recently at a very low price.
Believe it or not @b, adaptive reuse of parking garages is bandied about in some circles…..for what, who knows (most likely holding areas for driver-less cars that aren’t in use) but since parking garages tend to have a greater live-load spec than residential uses and are god awful expensive cost/benefit wise, you may one day see this provided they were built with appropriate floor ceiling clearances and lack of a slope to the floor 😉 (partially kidding)
I said it in the other post,
But although this building might be architecturally desirable to those of us that are very concrete / glass crazy, there are a few problems.
1. Square footage on these 2 bedrooms feels pretty cramped in a lot of the units.
2. NOISE. The Units are LOUD. Northwestern ambulances, fire trucks from down the street, cop cars, and just general traffic is awful around here. unless you’re up top in a penthouse with chance, it’s tough.
I have a friend who owned a large ( I think around 5 million dollar ) unit here with 2 young kids – loved the building but couldn’t bear the noise waking up his kids all the time. Ended up selling at a loss ( I think ) to move somewhere quieter.
3. Price – This is arguable. The building is architecturally significant, and has an amazing location if you don’t care about the noise or if it’s just a pied a Terre. Personally, if I’m spending 800 k on a 2 bedroom condo, I’d like 1500 square feet.
This is just personal taste, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why someone would want exposed concrete ceilings. If I wanted to see that, I could just go to the nearest parking garage.
“by which you mean roller shades??”
Lol!
Yes.
Whoa floorstanding speakers and a subwoofer, finally a decent setup. The HM chair & small computer setup fits well (but I couldn’t imagine working on a single small monitor as I use 3 26″ 2k’s) The amenities are decent (not a powerlifting gym by any means though), but the noise is high as other noted. I personally wouldn’t pay all this extra for exposed concrete in an architecturally praised building, but someone might?
The desk / computer shoved against a column in your bedroom just emphasizes how small the apartment is and that there is no room for a proper office. In fact, this unit is pretty basic from a creature comfort standpoint. This is steerage class in this building. Apparently you have to own one of the penthouse units to have an actual first class unit here.
The only good thing about concrete construction like this is that you can actually use that nice stereo as intended to a greater degree than most other types of buildings. Otherwise, this style of building doesn’t do much for me.
“Has all the warmth of a Warsaw Ghetto”
LOL, what did you expect from a firm named The Schatz Companies? It was always a JAP-palace type building. Not sure how they convinced people the holocaust museum look was something to live in or look trendy. Where are the HVAC ducts? In concrete lofts they used to be hung from the concrete ceilings.
Anyone know how many combined one bedrooms are in this building and on which floors?
“Anyone know how many combined one bedrooms are in this building and on which floors?”
Combined? Why?
This is a fairly new building. You would have just bought one of the 2 or 3 bedrooms versus buying 2 1-bedrooms and trying to combine them.
I think I’ve seen only one unit with a “strange” combined unit in this building in the past.
Here’s one of the bigger units which was a “combined” unit.
https://www.estately.com/listings/info/600-n-fairbanks-court–34
I don’t think I’ve ever seen any “combined” 1 bedroom units. Again, you’d just buy a 2/2 instead.
The 1-bedrooms in the building have always sold for over $350,000 to even $450,000. Why would you buy 2 of them? Cheaper to buy a 2-bedroom outright.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen any “combined” 1 bedroom units.”
2710 is a combination of the 1 bedroom units 2708 and 2709.
So, not only have you seen two 1br units combined, you actually cited to it.
Other floors with a “10” unit, instead of 08+09: 16, 19-22, 25, 30, 32, 35, 36.
18, 20, 22 have an “11”, combining a 03+04
Also, what’s the SF of the biggest, non-PH, 2 bed? Is it 1852, like the “10” combination of 2 1brs? Or even the 1746 of the “11”s? Nope: 1258.
So, my count is 13 combined units, all of them from 2 1brs.
Possible there are others that were combined without amending the condo dec, but I would think that would be foolish.
sorry-14 combined–didn’t count 2710.
Cool. Thanks anon(tfo).
Their question has been answered.
I would take suburban drywall and beige all day over the laughable post-modern exposed concrete look. No room for post-modern nihilistic bullshit here: if the emperor has no clothes say it out loud. Exposed concrete is a joke.