3-Bedroom Bucktown Penthouse with 4 Outdoor Living Spaces: 2136 W. Armitage
This 3-bedroom penthouse in 2136 W. Armitage in Bucktown came on the market in July 2022.
Built in 2007, this building has 5 units and garage parking.
This unit is the entire top floor and has 10 foot tall ceilings and Brazilian teak floors.
The kitchen has modern cabinets, an island, high end appliances including a Subzero refrigerator and Wolf gas range along with quartz and CeaserStone countertops and a tile backsplash.
There’s a wet bar and a gas fireplace.
The primary bedroom has an en suite bath with an air spa tub and custom walk-in-shower.
The third bedroom has a custom built-in Murphy bed with access to a private deck.
There are 4 outdoor spaces including a balcony off the kitchen, a bigger terrace with a pergola off the living room, a balcony off the primary bedroom and a private deck off the third bedroom.
If you need more outdoor space, the unit also shares the garage rooftop space.
The unit has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and garage parking included.
This building is in the heart of Bucktown near all the shops and restaurants as well as public transportation.
I couldn’t find a list price from July, but it’s currently listed at $669,899 which is just under the 2007 purchase price of $671,000 but higher than the last sale in 2014 at $642,500.
Is this a deal for Bucktown?
Jim Moore at Re/Max NEXT has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #PH: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1800 square feet
- Sold in September 2007 for $671,000
- Sold in August 2014 for $642,500
- Originally listed in July 2022
- Currently listed at $669,899
- Assessments of $371 a month (includes scavenger)
- Taxes of $11,807
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Garage parking included
- Fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 15×13
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Bedroom #3: 12×11
- Living room: 14×19
- Dining room: 13×12
- Kitchen: 16×12
- 4 private outdoor spaces
The 4 outdoor spaces are a waste. enclosing the Armitage facing side, deleting the small outdoor space off the MNR and making the remaining larger and accessible w/o going thru a Br would have been a better decision.
3 story walk up, not family ideal.
Looks like every buyer was hoping the area would become fully gentrified before they sold. Too bad they all failed. Hopefully they can find a buyer that feels like today is there lucky day. But hey you’ve got not one but 2 pergolas – that right there is $250k
At least you can walk across the street and get your chicken at wholesale
Are those pretty much the original kitchen and baths?
“Looks like every buyer was hoping the area would become fully gentrified before they sold.”
This area is fully gentrified imo. The chicken place is an exception I guess.
I’m not sure if this place is a major deal but it seems like its priced to sell.
“This area is fully gentrified imo. The chicken place is an exception I guess.”
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The chicken place is what makes it gentrified. Otherwise it would just be rich and sterile. Gentrified strives to have some quirks, so long as they are of the beige variety.
Is the Charleston still there? Corner of Charleston and Hoyne?
Lots of potential with a few changes. 4 outdoor spaces are WTF. The kitchen one should be smaller and basically just used for a grill and such. The one of the living room is solid, where you’d but your furniture, etc. The primary bedroom one is decent, but could be a foot thinner and just used for like plants. The second bedroom one is the issue, you could almost split that up into two rooms!
I also find the shared garage party roof a bit problematic. Could be great if you have solid neighbors, but could also be troublesome.
I wonder if they have rights to build on the roof (there’s a ladder). That could be very solid if done right…
I was going to make a joke that I’d gain too much weight living walking distance from 6 degrees (they had Springfield-style horseshoe sandwiches) but it closed! š
“Is the Charleston still there? ”
yes.
regarding the Ciales Poultry Store, they’ve been trying to sell it and the surrounding lots for a while. don’t see the listing up anymore but they own about 4 lots next to each other they are trying to bundle together.
“Looks like every buyer was hoping the area would become fully gentrified before they sold.”
This is the land of million dollar and up homes. Fully gentrified? That happened over 10 years ago.
“This is the land of million dollar and up homes. Fully gentrified? That happened over 10 years ago.”
I remember someone saying the RE is local and block by block…
So are you arguing that this block is fully gentrified and property values wouldnt increase if the Chicken place was replaced by SWPL?
Clownshoes
“6 degrees but it closed”
GrubHub will still let you order!
“property values wouldnt increase if the Chicken place was replaced by SWPL”
Like an urban chicken farm?
Does anyone really notice the existence of Ciales, other than the yellow walls?
“Does anyone really notice the existence of Ciales, other than the yellow walls?
nope, and no one even cares it’s there. it’s also set back with a small parking lot in front of it
“GrubHub will still let you order!”
it closed the end of June
“it closed the end of June”
But I can place an order for when they open tomorrow at 5!
Is GrubHub as bad as UberEats and DoorDash appear to be about keeping your money when the restaurant can’t/won’t perform? I avoid all of them generally, so have limited experience.
“Like an urban chicken farm?”
Maybe if you go to know the chickens name, what its preferences were, what it was fed, etc
“got to know the chickens”
Who wouldn’t, if they lived right across the street.
I am guessing the outdoor space is driven by the developer having obtained variances to build to the lot line. I think front and back patios count towards green space or some crap. I don’t think enclosing the Armitage side would have been allowable under current zoning. Optically the developer was able to create the illusion of a better unit, make their money and move on.
āWho wouldnāt, if they lived right across the streetā
Thinking more urban petting zoo. Wonder if it falls into current zoning?
Thatās one hell of an amenity and would make this block fully gentrified
I know people will laugh, but I’m looking more and more closely at some of these 2000-2010-era “penthouses” that list in this price range (in Bucktown, Lincoln Park, Lakeview).
Though it’s mostly cookie-cutter exteriors, bland interiors with no separate kitchens or dining rooms, etc., they do offer a lot of space and modern mechanicals, as well as lots of outdoor areas. If I move back to the city, I’d want to have some space outside, which I value a lot living on the North Shore all these years. I even found a “penthouse” two buildings north of Wrigley on Kenmore that was kind of neat.
“So are you arguing that this block is fully gentrified and property values wouldnt increase if the Chicken place was replaced by SWPL?”
Uh…yes. Fully, fully gentrified. By every means of the word. Surrounded by million dollar homes and condos of the same ilk on this very block.
I don’t know why anyone would listen to someone who hasn’t been on this block in a decade or more.
“I know people will laugh, but Iām looking more and more closely at some of these 2000-2010-era āpenthousesā that list in this price range (in Bucktown, Lincoln Park, Lakeview).”
Why would we laugh Dan #2?
I know you’re a fan of vintage, but they do have cons, like lack of outdoor space or parking.
Just a tip, the bigger the building the better. It’s really difficult to manage a 3-owner “association.” Doesn’t take much to block basic maintenance.
ā Uhā¦yes. Fully, fully gentrified. By every means of the word. Surrounded by million dollar homes and condos of the same ilk on this very block
. I donāt know why anyone would listen to someone who hasnāt been on this block in a decade or more.ā
I guess thatās why itās had essentially zero appreciation since 2014
Since you have such a deep knowledge of the block and are a trusted expert, please provide a link to any property on this block (Armitage) thatās sold for > $1MM. Should be easy as itās āsurroundedā by them, right?
“September 2007 for $671,000”
+CPI = $950k
“any property on this block (Armitage)”
So, just this piece of this block, but both sides of Armitage? Just 28 lots? Yes, the high water mark for those condos and teardowns does appear to be under $750k.
But taking all the properties “on the block (sharing an alley with this unit)” there are multiple $1m+ sales, notwithstanding that it is a block of 100′ deep lots.
“Since you have such a deep knowledge of the block and are a trusted expert, please provide a link to any property on this block (Armitage) thatās sold for > $1MM. Should be easy as itās āsurroundedā by them, right?”
go 1 block in either direction of this place and you’ll find them. Homer St, Hoyne, Leavitt, and McLean. Surrounded by doesn’t have to mean on the same street. Of course you won’t find any 1MM homes on this stretch of Armitage. There may be some larger, top floor condos that approached 900k over the years but that’s about it.
This home is directly behind the chicken place. Probably more effected by it than living next door.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2138-W-Homer-St-60647/home/13356469
“So, just this piece of this block, but both sides of Armitage? Just 28 lots? Yes, the high water mark for those condos and teardowns does appear to be under $750k”
I didn’t set the criteria.
“Of course you wonāt find any 1MM homes on this stretch of Armitage. There may be some larger, top floor condos that approached 900k over the years but thatās about it.”
Thank you Marco. Anyone who has actually been on this stretch of Armitage in, say, the last 5 years, knows that most of the single family homes have been sold and are now buildings like the one in this post. Multi-unit condo buildings. There are a bunch on this stretch of Armitage.
The single family homes are all on the crossing streets. It’s a lovely neighborhood. Many homes on smaller lots but they have been maintained well and Bucktown is a hot neighborhood so you won’t find much under $750k, and certainly not anything that has been renovated.
I don’t know why anyone is arguing that this neighborhood isn’t a million dollar SFH home neighborhood, with the corresponding expensive condos. It’s been a high income neighborhood for a long time now.
I guess I need to cover more properties here so that readers of this blog see what is going on there. But inventory is low.
There are only 102 properties for sale in Bucktown right now. Total. Wow.
There was a spike in inventory a month ago but it’s not still rising. Sellers must be holding their listings off the market in the neighborhoods. They will wait.
So no million dollar homes?
Clownshoes
“So no million dollar homes?”
Do you know how to use Redfin JohnnyU? They are all over the neighborhood. On every block. Have at it.
Bucktown is a million dollar home neighborhood. No one disputes it except for a guy living in Indiana.
Run along.
“Do you know how to use Redfin JohnnyU? They are all over the neighborhood. On every block. Have at it.
Bucktown is a million dollar home neighborhood. No one disputes it except for a guy living in Indiana.
Run along”
I never said there wernt +$1MM homes in Bucktown. I stated that this block hadnt fully gentrified yet, which is correct as there are zero homes on this block >$1MM
You like to change what others say and move the goalposts.
Its not your most endearing feature
” I stated that this block hadnt fully gentrified yet, which is correct as there are zero homes on this block >$1MM”
Huh, just because there aren’t million dollar homes it hasn’t fully gentrified? You have no clue. It’s primarily multi-unit buildings with a few restaurant/bars and commercial spaces. It’s Armitage, a busier street that will never have a million dollar SFH on it.
does this look gentrified…a 2000 sf condo that sold for over 900k. just down the street and closer to Western.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2239-W-Armitage-Ave-60647/unit-2/home/167583912
” which is correct as there are zero homes on this block >$1MM”
Dude, that’s way off base.
Who would *want* a million dollar SFH on Armitage (a fairly busy street, and a bus route) on a block with 100′ lots? And the short lots make it harder to have condos with the SF to hit $1m.
Your argument would seem to be that the other side of the block cound be all $4m houses, but this side is still dumpy because it’s all rentals and smaller condos. Which is, frankly, nuts.
“does this look gentrifiedā¦a 2000 sf condo that sold for over 900k. just down the street and closer to Western.
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2239-W-Armitage-Ave-60647/unit-2/home/167583912”
Is there a mexican chicken wholesaler on this block? As someone who’s a big fan of Carnicerias, I like being within walking/biking distance of one, just wouldnt prefer it on my block
So you can have a +$900k condo on Armitage, but its unpossible to have a $1MM SFH? Makes sense
TFO – does the linked property invalidate you’re point about values and condos (N=1 and all that)
“does the linked property invalidate your point about values and condo”
Not sure I understand the question.
They did build those as 2 unit condos in part bc of the 100′ lot depth.
“And the short lots make it harder to have condos with the SF to hit $1m.”
The linked property sold for +$900k 20Mo ago. Is it really unpossible to see a $1MM condo on a 100′ deep lot on Armitage?
Granted the first floor recently sold for $740k
“unpossible to see a $1MM condo on a 100? deep lot on Armitage?”
This one (and the W mirror) proves it’s possible:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2020-W-Armitage-Ave-60647/unit-3E/home/174561326
I don’t know that I see the 2000 block as meaningfully different from the 2100 block–at least for anyone who doesn’t fear poultry.
“I donāt know that I see the 2000 block as meaningfully different from the 2100 blockāat least for anyone who doesnāt fear poultry.”
Its not the poultry SWPL fear…
“Its not the poultry SWPL fearā¦”
Should probably buy a $300k house in downtown Elmhurst, instead, then.