Do You Dream of a Rooftop Terrace with Trees? 1255 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast
This 2-bedroom duplex penthouse in The Churchill at 1255 N. State Parkway in the Gold Coast recently came on the market.
This unit has many of the vintage features you would expect in this building including French doors, built-ins and crown molding.
This unit is unique in that it has 2 walls of windows as well as a big skylight in the living room.
The kitchen has dark cabinets and granite counter tops along with a Subzero refrigerator and a 6-burner Wolf Range.
It has a separate dining room along with a bedroom off the kitchen that looks to have a murphy bed but no third wall.
Both full bathrooms and the half bath are on the main floor.
Spiral stairs take you to a lofted area on the second level along with a 1000 square foot private terrace that is landscaped with wood decking and trees.
The unit has space pak cooling and in-unit washer/dryer. There’s no parking with the Churchill but it is available to lease nearby.
The listing says: “be the envy of your friends.”
This unit has sold two other times in the last 6 years and has come on the market for $374,999 more than the 2014 sales price.
Will it get the premium?
Vikki Kokuzian at Coldwell Banker has the listing. See the pictures and the floor plan here.
Unit #9BF: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 2000 square feet
- Sold in October 2001 for $675,000
- Sold in March 2007 for $825,000
- Sold in July 2012 for $800,000
- Sold in June 2014 for $1.025 million
- Currently listed for $1,399,999
- Assessments of $2390 a month (includes a/c, electric, heat, gas, doorman, cable, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, and snow removal)
- Taxes of $7320
- Space pak cooling
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- No parking- rental is available in the neighborhood
- Bedroom #1: 15×15 (main level)
- Bedroom #2: 14×9 (main level)
- Den: 19×9 (main level)
- Loft: 14×7 (second floor)
- 1000 square foot private terrace (second floor)
Why the huge price increase? Because they put in a crappy Sonos system?!
This place was for rent for $5499 at one point, much better deal.
Sonos is for kids.
The second “bedroom” adjoins the kitchen and isn’t closed off from it. It’s a breakfast room (with a Murphy bed) plain and simple
I do love a rooftop terrace but getting anything up there using a spiral staircase…eek.
It is hardly a second bedroom when you don’t have a closet, have to move the kitchen table, pull down the bad, and sleep feet from the kitchen without a door or wall between. If that’s the standard, every room could be a bedroom. You could put a mattress on the dining room table, and it’s a 3 bedroom!
Even being able-bodied, these spiral staircases are a total deal breaker for me.
Who knew that this building had so much outdoor space. Remember this one from last fall? http://cribchatter.com/?p=24469
This is really weird. I have never seen a bed in the kitchen at this price point before!
Love the roof deck. I would be all over this weird little place if it were about half the price.
Floor plan is really jacked up for a $1.4 million condo. It could probably be fixed but not something I think most at the price point want to deal with..
Oooh – – I was looking at the previous listing price. This place sells quick if the price tag is less than $6-something. I cannot imagine how wealthy you have to be and how quickly and easily you would have had to get that wealthy, in order to even consider buying this at this price….or the last price…but somebody did at the last price. Yowza.
Wouldn’t it have made more sense to:
1) put “real” stairs in the current breakfast nook/half-assed bedroom area
2) put the dining room where the current den/office spiral staircase is
3) use 7/8 of the current dining room as the 2nd bedroom (with a hallway to the master bedroom)
Or number 1 above + the den/office becomes the dining room.
I don’t understand this layout.
Roofdeck is killer, though!
Why are the taxes so low? Shouldn’t they be at least double that amount?
I do love that outdoor space, but would opt for a Gold Coast rowhouse over this any day.
“Why are the taxes so low?”
Based on the 2001 sale, they should be about $12k.
I hope everyone is getting out and voting against Berrios, no matter who else you are voting for.
1) put “real” stairs in the current breakfast nook/half-assed bedroom area
Like your suggestions but you cant get the stairs from the 2nd bedroom to align with the loft area.
Lots of potential but horribly executed
This original 9B floor plan shows that 9B was originally a one bedroom. And the “F”tier was a studio.
http://www.1255state.com/floorplans
The Churchill has a reputation for having high HOA’s. I don’t know why as there isn’t all kinds of landscaping or anything.
I love the Churchill..despite its high HOA..but this is just a large one bedroom with a den..(which is how it sold last time.) Granted it has a awesome deck, but they overbuilt this one by adding the studio and making it a master…and building up the roof deck. Maybe some old rich guy will buy this and it will make a perfect stabbin cabin in the Viagra-ville but they need to come down on price.
The unit is sort of meh, and I don’t love the location (noisy). Basically, you’re paying for the private deck, which looks pretty awesome.