A Renovated 3-Bedroom Triplex Loft: 1000 W. Washington in the West Loop
This 3-bedroom triplex loft in the Epicenter Lofts at 1000 W. Washington in the West Loop came on the market in October 2019.
Epicenter Lofts was built in 1910 and has 183 units and a parking garage.
It is one of the few West Loop loft buildings that actually has a doorman.
This loft has 30 foot concrete ceilings and bedrooms on three levels.
The layout means it had two bedrooms “open” to the lower level but the current seller has closed off one of those bedroom (the master suite?) with floor to ceiling black industrial windows.
The top floor bedroom appears to still be open to the room below.
The kitchen has white cabinets and a black island with a stone countertop, a tile backsplash and stainless steel appliances.
The master suite has a custom built-out closet.
There’s also a bedroom on the first floor.
It has a large new roof deck with built-in seating, turf area and a fire pit.
There’s also a balcony off the living room.
The loft has central air, washer/dryer in the unit and a heated parking space is included.
Originally listed in October 2019 at $1.15 million, that’s $400,000 above the 2017 selling price of $750,000.
Is this neighborhood still hot heading into 2020?
Nathan Binkley at Compass has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #515: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, triplex, 2400 square feet
- Sold in January 1998 for $340,000 (included the parking)
- Sold in November 2010 for $369,000 (included the parking)
- Sold in November 2017 for $750,000 (included the parking)
- Listed in October 2019 for $1.15 million (includes 1 car parking)
- Assessments of $1099 a month (includes doorman, cable, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $13465
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 20×15 (second floor)
- Bedroom #2: 19×14 (third floor)
- Bedroom #3: 13×11 (main floor)
- Living room: 20×19
- Dining room: 10×9
- Kitchen: 11×9
- Roof top deck: 15×38 (third floor)
Need a floor plan but thinking one of those bedrooms has to traverse a stairwell in the middle of the night in order to get to a restroom which is not ideal, particularly not in the $1MM+ market…so it is really a 2-bed +den…but I do like the enclosing a bedroom with industrial windows look and think as a 2-bed +den this is a great unit. To me not worth over a million but the west loop is also a market I just don’t get anymore in terms of what people will pay to live there.
That said, the microwave over range is cheesy/cheap at this price point and the unbelievably hideous vanity / mirror combo ruins an otherwise nice bath redo, but is luckily an easy fix provided someone didn’t cheap out on the tile and not put any under / behind the vanity and mirror. Anyone know if it was current or prior owners who did the bulk of the work? My hunch is it was the 2017 seller that did it, and these folks want whomever they sell to to pay for their home in Naperville or wherever. I do like the roof deck – – that seems nice. Not sure about the astro turf. Obviously one is not raising kids in this unit which is why they want out after living in it for less than two years.
The guy likes his brown water.
You can tell it’s not a $1MM place – no Pappy’s. Col Taylor ain’t gonna cut it.
Remember when everyone said this building was a lawsuit riddled, asbestos filled value trap? http://cribchatter.com/?p=7201#comments
“Remember when everyone said this building was a lawsuit riddled, asbestos filled value trap?”
A lot can change in a decade.
Finally sold! $976,500