3-Bedroom With Panoramic Skyline Views in the West Loop for $925,000: 1200 W. Monroe
This 3-bedroom in The Metro at 1200 W. Monroe in the West Loop came on the market in June 2025.
The Metro was built in 2002 and has 136 units and heated garage parking.
It’s also a rare West Loop building that has door staff. It also has an exercise room.
This is a corner unit on the curve. The Metro was considered a “soft loft” at the time, with tall ceilings and exposed duct work.
It has floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic skyline views of the Willis Tower. There are remote control blinds by the Shade store in the living room and bedrooms.
The unit has a large balcony off the living room with the furnishings and grill included.
The main living area has light engineered hardwood floors while the bedrooms have carpet.
The unit has a “chef’s kitchen” open to the living and dining room with modern gray and white cabinets, a Thermador refrigerator, a Gaggenau full surface induction cooktop, a Danby wine cooler, Bosch dishwasher, Caeserstone quartz countertops, and a large island.
All bedrooms are fully enclosed and have exterior windows.
The primary suite is en suite with a modern double vanity, an Americh Japanese inspired soaking tub and a walk-in-shower.
There are custom closets by Design and Lightology fixtures.
The unit has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and one garage parking space included.
The listing says the A/C, furnace and humidifier have all been replaced in the “last few years.”
This building is near the shops and restaurants of the West Loop including Randolph Restaurant Row and Fulton Market. There is a Mariano’s, Target and Whole Foods in the neighborhood. It is near the Eisenhower and the Green Line El stop, and bus routes are nearby.
Listed at $925,000, is a 3-bedroom under a million dollars a deal for this neighborhood?
Lauren Mitrick Wood and Sarah Elpayaa at Compass have the listing. See the pictures here.
Or you can see it at the Open House on Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 12 pm to 2 pm.
Unit #808: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1735 square feet
- Sold in April 2005 for $510,000
- Sold in June 2021 for $830,000
- Currently listed at $925,000
- Assessments of $1120 a month (includes heat, gas, doorman, exercise room, exterior maintenance, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $14,937
- Central Air
- Full size stackable washer/dryer in the unit
- Garage parking space included
- Bedroom #1: 15×11
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
- Bedroom #3: 12×12
- Living/dining room: 18×26
- Kitchen: 11×10
- Balcony: 5×16
1.5 miles from yesterday’s property on 14th and 1.5X the price for a 3 bedroom.
I know that west loop is very hot and has been hot for the past 3-5 years – but does anyone else think that in 5 years it will turn into another south loop? (remember 10-15 years ago when south loop was hot – now its completely dead). I really think the only neighborhoods that will keep their value (maybe not increase much) is streeterville and gold coast – and yes there may a few years of dips in those neighborhoods but they are sustainable and will always be popular
“1.5X the price for a 3 bedroom”
It’s 15% bigger, and the 3d bedroom is an actual bedroom, not a glorified closet.
Floorplan (N tier) here (but hard to read) https://www.dreamtown.com/buildings/the-metro
“does anyone else think that in 5 years it will turn into another south loop?”
When was the SLoop ever the hot retail/restaurant area? The Woop probably can’t maintain its current level of hotness, but I don’t see it going SLoop bc of the much better use mix (including being dramatically better for walkability), absence of (mostly unfair) southside stigma, and the higher-end residential product mix.
I’d pick the Woop over SLoop or River North 7 times out of 5 for a close to the Loop location, all else being more or less equal.
South Loop is too spread out and not really walkable (at least in a pleasant way). West Loop / Fulton Market is much better in terms of neighborhood vibe. South Loop is convenient but that is about it.
“When was the SLoop ever the hot retail/restaurant area? The Woop probably can’t maintain its current level of hotness, but I don’t see it going SLoop bc of the much better use mix (including being dramatically better for walkability), absence of (mostly unfair) southside stigma, and the higher-end residential product mix.”
Agreed. When has the South Loop ever had $2 million and $3 million units as the norm?
South Loop built a ton of new condo buildings 20 years ago but left behind the shops, restaurants and entertainment. It’s still just a dead neighborhood (to me).
“I know that west loop is very hot and has been hot for the past 3-5 years – but does anyone else think that in 5 years it will turn into another south loop?”
Time flies. The West Loop got hot BEFORE McDonald’s opened (when they announced they were moving there.) The actual date they announced the move was June 13, 2016.
And then the race was on in that neighborhood. It’s been “hot” nearly a decade now.
Fulton Market wasn’t allowed to have residential until the pandemic, when the alderman changed his dictate on what could go in there (previously only commercial) but since that looked doomed, he quickly switched to residential. And thank goodness. Neighborhood was dead on the weekends.
South Loop was the hottest neighborhood in the nation during the housing bubble. 10,000 new condos were planned. But it was just building after building. They left out the part about restaurants.
“I really think the only neighborhoods that will keep their value (maybe not increase much) is streeterville and gold coast – and yes there may a few years of dips in those neighborhoods but they are sustainable and will always be popular.”
Sorry clio but Gold Coast is dead and has been for most of the last decade. Young rich people prefer West Loop. But I’ve argued on this blog the last several years that we’re in a change of generations with Silent and Baby Boomers leaving the Gold Coast and, eventually, Millennials and GenZ will move in. There wasn’t any problem leasing the new apartment building at State and Division and a Sweetgreen went in. There was supposed to be a new apartment high rise where the Barnes & Noble is but I guess that project has died.
I think in 10 years, Gold Coast will be fine again as the young people move in. Viagra Triangle has died but this is good news.
Streeterville suffers from crime perceptions especially with the shooting by the AMC theater a few months ago. The wildings appear contained, however. The new apartment high rise going into the old Spire hole along the lake front will help though.
River North is the most “dead” of the downtown neighborhoods. It has lost its coolness factor, including with restaurants, to the West Loop and Fulton Market. How to revive it? I’m not sure.
“1.5 miles from yesterday’s property on 14th and 1.5X the price for a 3 bedroom.”
Location is everything in real estate.
“1.5 miles from yesterday’s property on 14th and 1.5X the price for a 3 bedroom.”
Location is everything in real estate.
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