We Love Authentic Lofts: 2000 Sq. Ft. in the Manchester Building at 2035 W. Charleston in Bucktown
This 2-bedroom brick loft in the Manchester Lofts at 2035 W. Charleston in Bucktown has been on the market since January of 2010.
It has been reduced $51,000 in that time, including a recent $10k reduction.
The loft is now listed for $76,000 under the 2005 purchase price.
This loft has many authentic features including wide open spaces throughout its 2000 square feet, big industrial windows, exposed brick and wood timber beams and 15 foot ceilings.
The listing says the kitchen is “commercial grade” with Dacor, Thermador and Kitchenaid appliances and cherry cabinets.
The loft has central air and a washer/dryer in the unit.
But the building has no deeded parking. There is leased parking available across the street.
Is this a deal for the square footage and location?
Thomas McCarey at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
Or see it in person at the Open House on Sunday January 9 from 11:30 to 1:30.
Unit #303: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 2000 square feet
- Sold in March 1992 for $186,000
- Sold in May 2001 for $408,500
- Sold in May 2005 for $575,000
- Originally listed in January 2010 for $550,000
- Reduced several times
- Was listed in October 2010 for $509,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $499,000
- Assessments of $375 a month
- Taxes of $7035
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- No parking- leased nearby
- Bedroom #1: 21×14
- Bedroom #2: 15×11
nice but I’m not paying that much for a 2/2 without parking. I’d rather buy a townhouse with my own garage.
Very nice finishes, but I would want parking included here. I’d feel like a knife catcher anywhere above $425-$440.
very nice place
parking will be an issue in that hood at that price point though
Good place that someone will enjoy living in for years to come. Parking is the issue here. That aside the bathrooms and shutters are a bit out of place for this unit. I think that they should have gone more industrial chic with a loft. Hope It finally sells at close to this price.
Beautiful loft, like it a lot and I usually don’t like lofts.
Not sure about the price, but it seems to have much better space and finishes than comparable places at the same price.
“nice but I’m not paying that much for a 2/2 without parking. I’d rather buy a townhouse with my own garage.”
I agree, I would prefer a smaller space with garage space like this a couple blocks away…
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2039-W-Webster-Ave-60647/home/12793351http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/2039-W-Webster-Ave-60647/home/12793351
LOL @ no parking. This is right in the heart of Sucktown. You know, the part of Bucktown that is over a mile from all the stuff that actually stops Bucktown from being Humbolt Park (or any other equally horrid Westsiiieeed Hood).
Half a ticket will buy you any loft you could possibly want in this town. Why would anyone get this one?
Nice place, but seems pricey for a 2 bedroom unit. They could possibly convert that sitting area by the fireplace into a 3rd bedroom, it seems somewhat useless down there away from the kitchen, and the loft already has a family room.
Places like this make me wonder why Swiffer Corp. doesn’t make a wood floor dust mop that’s wider than 12 inches. It’d take forever to swiffer this place.
No deeded parking is scary for this price.
hmm not the expert but arnt you not supposed to have exposed brick on walls that are facing the outside, wouldn’t that make htis place extremely cold in winter
“Half a ticket will buy you any loft you could possibly want in this town. Why would anyone get this one?”
if your giving out NO parking i would take this one instead. and like
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/720-S-Dearborn-St-60605/unit-1103/home/12570440
Chicagobullnutz pointed out there are many more to pick from why this one in “i hate bucktown”?
Haywood,
Its the exposed brick that gives it character. Its not usually cold b/c its several bricks thick and if its recently tuckpointed..all the grout replaced and filled.
love this. Too bad about the parking.
Horrible deal at this price. MAYBE $425k. I wonder how big the loan is on this one – probably goes to the bank I would guess.
I think brick has an R value of .25 per inch. When you add the high ceilings and GFA heat, units such as these are expensive to heat.
I saw this place about 6months back, it shows well, a bit narrow and long which makes it seem a little smaller than 2000sq ft and the parking definitely stopped us from buying (well & the price) also they really only have a freight elevator that is used for moving in & out so you will be taking the stairs (which isn’t bad because it’s The 3rd floor) but we plan to have kids and I won’t carry strollers up and down stairs everyday.
The realtor was adamant that this place was going to sell asap, so it’s funny to see that it’s still on the market, my guess it sells for around 420k bc of lack of elevator & parking.
Wow, that’s awfully steep for a place with no parking, far from the el, and far from what most people like about Bucktown. This place, while smaller, is comparable, but $50K less, with parking, apparently a balcony, and a better location: http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1750-N-Wolcott-Ave-60622/unit-203/home/12753543. I found this in a few minutes of searching — I imagine there must be a lot of similar places out there. I do love the building on Charleston, though — the price just seems a bit crazy. Admittedly, the schools for the Charleston place are much better than those for the place I linked to, but few people stay in a two-bedroom condo beyond preschool, it seems.
Even triple brick is not well insulated. The heat bills scare me off places like this, even could I afford them.
I loved lofts back in the early 70s, as a youngster starting out, because then it was a super-edgy way to live. The places were great for artists who were extremely tolerant of discomfort, which was part of the romance. Riding an open-sided freight elevator, doing weird things like hanging chairs from the ceilings or other outre things, living in a deserted industrial district with no other dwellings within a half mile and being able to play your stereo at 130 decibels- that was all part of the appeal…
… until you tried to get warm when it was 10 degrees and you ran an electric heater and saw the bill for that, or tried to install a kitchen or normal bath. The appeal faded very quickly and Mom’s overstuffed suburban cape cod started to look good.
They can be wonderful places to live if you can afford to heat them, but most people can’t really.
“doing weird things like hanging chairs from the ceilings or other outre things, living in a deserted industrial district with no other dwellings within a half mile ”
MAUDE LEBOWSKI!
“… until you tried to get warm when it was 10 degrees and you ran an electric heater and saw the bill for that, or tried to install a kitchen or normal bath. The appeal faded very quickly and Mom’s overstuffed suburban cape cod started to look good. ”
Oh you mean practical considerations apply to the artsy-fartsy set? I thought economic constraints & practical considerations were simply beyond their genius purview. LOL.
Lofts = epic fail. Especially those without the proper ingredients to make a white russian.
have to agree with laura here.brick gets cold.i’m not really sure,but i don’t think it has any R value at all.
i just looked it up…brick has an R value of 0.76
while snow is higher with a value of 4.6
i guess that means you could be warmer in an igloo.
Nice, but it strikes me as odd that it has exposed brick, exposed beams, and exposed pipes, but the ductwork is enclosed, and the refrigerator is paneled.
Sometimes I feel that I am here on cc for only one reason to clear up misconceptuons on lofts.
Yes brick or masonry is a decent insulator. I just touched my 2+ foot thick outside wall and guess what…it is warm! Let’s compare that to virtually EVERY apt in lake view and wrigley that I lived in that had zero insulation between the wood frame or single brick wall and the plaster. I will bet big that on a cubic foot basis that they are more expensive to heat. The only other facto is window and door openings. In lofts many have huge expanses of glass in comparison to all of those structures. Advantage apartment. However I would much rather have a great view to the outside world and higher ceilings than be stuck in a cookie cutter 1890’s boring apartment on Barry, Sheffield, or Oakdale.
The other issue is that you moved into a place with inadequate heating system. That is not the fault of the space but the developer/owner. My heating and cooling bills are very tolerable for the size we have. Our one year old walks around without hat gloves and ten layers and has not had an issue.
Loft = epic lifestyle
“Our one year old walks around without hat gloves and ten layers and has not had an issue.”
ha when its in the teens outside, my son walks around in a long sleeve, pants and socks. i walk around in shorts, no socks, and a tshirt (sometimes shirt less). and wife has a sweater and thick ass wool socks. and thats before the oven is used for dinner.
walk into the groove house in the winter you need to bring your beach wear. and if there is a roast in the oven we can do some bikram/hot yoga in the kitchen.
Yeah same here and in the summer it’s like fricking northern Alaska at night when I go to bed
“However I would much rather have a great view to the outside world and higher ceilings than be stuck in a cookie cutter 1890’s boring apartment on Barry, Sheffield, or Oakdale.”
TOTALLY agree
“Yeah same here and in the summer it’s like fricking northern Alaska at night when I go to bed”
i am lucky on that aspect we only have window units.
$350 assessments, $150 parking adds another $500 a month to this ticket.
Just reduced to $474,900 — of course the realtor delisted is and put it back on the MLS to appear as a new listing — why does the system allow this? It clears out the pricing history (at least on Redfin) and bumps it up as a new listing. Realtor antics.
Sold for $449.