Want a Like-New Brick and Timber 2-Bedroom Loft in the West Loop? 1000 W. Washington
This 2-bedroom loft in the Epicenter Lofts at 1000 W. Washington in the West Loop came on the market in September 2018. (Yes, this is an awful picture and I need to get a new one. Sorry! It’s old.)
The Epicenter is a brick industrial building constructed in 1882. It has 178 units, a doorman and a heated parking garage.
This is an authentic brick and timber loft with exposed beams.
The listing says it’s a “complete and cohesive masterful renovation by Twenty9, Inc.”
The loft has new 5″ quarter sawn oak floors in dark walnut.
The kitchen is new with two-tone white and muted gray cabinets, all Viking stainless steel appliances, and Calcutta Goldesque Quartz countertops with gray veining.
Both bedrooms are fully enclosed but neither has windows.
The master bathroom is new with floor to ceiling 18″ x 18″ porcelain, a large shower with finished basin, an Infinity drain, and oversized hexagon tile flooring.
The loft has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and tandem heated garage parking.
The listing says the loft faces Randolph.
The building lives up to its name as the “epicenter” of all things in the West Loop as you can walk to all the shops and restaurants of Fulton Market and the West Loop.
Originally listed at $1,099,000, it has been reduced $24,000 to $1,075,000.
This is still $365,000 above the earlier 2018 sales price of $710,000, which was pre-renovation.
Will this renovation get the premium?
Nicholas Colagiovanni at Baird & Warner has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #338: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2100 square feet
- Sold in March 2001 for $390,000
- Sold in July 2005 for $488,000
- Sold in April 2007 for $555,000
- Sold in January 2012 for $310,500
- Sold in June 2018 for $710,000
- Originally listed in September 2018 after renovation for $1,099,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $1,075,000 (includes tandem heated garage parking)
- Assessments of $924 a month (includes doorman, cable, Internet, exterior maintenance, scavenger and snow removal)
- Taxes of $10,027
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 18×14
- Bedroom #2: 12×12
This is the building that had all the litigation, right?
[gthooi]
Yes: http://www.chicagonow.com/getting-real/2011/02/condos-that-try-to-kill-you-and-take-all-your-money/#image/1
Has that all been 100% resolved now?
Let’s hope not or my husband will be very grumpy with me. We looked here at a giant, beautiful loft with a roof deck during the downturn but all of the litigation scared me off. We bought a lake house in Michigan instead.
to the unit: Kitchen layout is a little awkward, no?
This is not aesthetically pleasing to me at all…In fact despite the monotony of the palette in the kitchen, the materials are so hodge-podge that it gives me a headache. Are we modern? Are we a farmhouse? Are we high end or are we tacky?….And one bedroom has no windows – – just frosted glass and clerestory to an interior area? That is definitely not a “feature” in a $1MM home!
Actually – – it seems neither bedroom has windows!!!
“This is not aesthetically pleasing to me at all…In fact despite the monotony of the palette in the kitchen, the materials are so hodge-podge that it gives me a headache. Are we modern? Are we a farmhouse? Are we high end or are we tacky?”
The Joanna Gaines influence
Is twenty9 a “Professional Designer” ™?
Kitchen layout sucks.
I’d be OK with the transom windows at $600M, at > $1MM, somebody spent too much on a bad unit and over improved
I would like a little natural light and a bit of a usable outdoor space for my 1.1 M layout.
“Has that all been 100% resolved now?”
I don’t know but the people who used to show up whenever I posted on this building to provide links to all the lawsuits and talk about how awful it all was, no longer do so.
Closed for $1,005,000