Get a 2-Bedroom Brick and Timber Loft in West Loop Gate for $435,000: 625 W. Jackson
This 2-bedroom corner loft in the Capitol Hill Lofts at 625 W. Jackson in West Loop Gate came on the market in December 2024.
Built in 1918, it used to house several small manufacturing companies including a hat maker, a printer, and Uneeda Vacuum Company. It was converted into 90 loft condos in 2000.
It has gated outdoor parking, an exercise room and a storage room. There’s no door staff.
This unit is a corner with a split floor plan. It has authentic loft features including large industrial windows, including in both bedrooms, exposed brick and duct work, and wood plank ceilings.
There are hardwood floors in the living/dining room and kitchen, which is open concept, and carpet in the bedrooms.
The kitchen has wood cabinets, stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops. There is no island.
The primary suite has a walk-in-closet with custom shelving and a “recently updated” en-suite bathroom with dual vanities, a marble shower and linen closet.
The second bathroom has a soaking tub and linen closet.
This loft has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and a gated outdoor parking space is included.
It has a balcony off the living/dining room.
Capitol Hill Lofts has a 7-Eleven in the building (not the White Hen as depicted in my photo. RIP White Hen) and is near shops and restaurants of West Loop, including Greektown, and West Loop Gate, including Union Station and the Willis Tower food hall.
It is next to the H Mart and steps from Lou Mitchell’s.
This building is near multiple bus lines, including the Union Station Transit Center, and the Blue line el.
Listed at $435,000, is this a better a deal than renting?
Andrea Catarivas at Keller Williams ONEChicago has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #308: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1261 square feet, loft
- Sold in November 2000 for $224,500
- Sold in March 2003 for $255,000
- Currently listed at $435,000 (includes one outdoor gated parking space)
- Assessments of $691 a month (includes cable, exercise room, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $7906
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Gated outdoor parking included
- Bedroom #1: 10×19
- Bedroom #2: 18×10
- Living/dining room: 19×18
- Kitchen: 19×7
- Laundry: 5×4
- Balcony: 11×5
The unit under this one, #208, is also on the market. It’s contingent listed at $349,900.
Looks like you look directly into a parking garage in #208 though.
From the listing:
“is perfectly situated in the sought-after West Loop neighborhood”
How’d it become West Loop Gate in the post?
Square footage includes the balcony, for sure. Bedroom dimension *both* include the useless finger area (considered ‘peninsula’ went with finger bc it’s so appropriate).
Nits about finishes and questionable construction decisions: too many to list.
the primary bathroom updates are just not good. why not install a bigger double vanity that runs wall to wall for more counter space. not updating the tub and shower was a mistake as well.
“How’d it become West Loop Gate in the post?”
This building has always been West Loop Gate. This neighborhood is West Loop Gate to the expressway.
“This building has always been West Loop Gate.”
Listing says West Loop.
You often tell us that you go with what the listing says even when it is obviously incorrect. INcluding w/r/t neighborhoods.
Why is this the one where you won’t defer to the listing agent?
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You forgot to add that the default value for a comment is Bucktown
This location has *always* been (counterintuitively) West Bucktown Gate, john.
Ah, of course. I am an old man. The mind is always the second to go.
“Why is this the one where you won’t defer to the listing agent?”
Because it’s West Loop Gate and has been for 20 years.
“sabrina bot behavior”
Yes, I’m a bot. A bot for 18 years. Lol.
Wasn’t I supposed to be living in India? That was what Bob always said.
“Because it’s West Loop Gate and has been for 20 years.”
I’m not interested in tracking them down, but we all know you won’t correct a misattributed neighborhood in the listing most of the time, and usually when you do it’s with a question about “is it really X”.
Realtor sez it’s West Loop, you don’t even acknowledge the claim with a question.
Why is *THIS ONE* different.
[Note: anything north of Augusta, south of Belmont, east of Pulaski and west of the River can be “Bucktown”, afaic.]
“[Note: anything north of Augusta, south of Belmont, east of Pulaski and west of the River can be “Bucktown”, afaic.]”
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May God have mercy on your soul.
I’m sure there’s a thread here that asked where the boundary between the Loop and the West Loop is. I think it started at Halsted then moved to the expressway, then to Canal Street. Pretty soon it will be the river if it isn’t already.
which means neighborhoods are fluid and change over time, both geographically and socioeconomically.
“Pretty soon it will be the river if it isn’t already.”
The Tribune map (which I have always had big problems with) shows this as “West Loop”:
https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/lookup/index.html?appid=c4067ed8d9894c0a9b9dedd7a385ea5a&find=west%2520loop
For those not wanting to click thru–it is roughly:
North–Kinzie
East–River
West–Ashland (and 90/94…wait for it)
South–Ike, Madison bt Green and 90/94 (Greektown), 16th bt 90/94 and Canal, and 18th from Canal to River.
“Why is *THIS ONE* different.”
It’s not. It’s West Loop Gate unless that neighborhood has completely gone away now which is possible. It’s possible it has all morphed into “West Loop” now.
“which means neighborhoods are fluid and change over time, both geographically and socioeconomically.”
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No, it means that certain interested parties WANT us to believe that neighborhood boundaries are fluid geographically.
Everything changes socioeconomically; just ask all the Germans now living in Humboldt Park, which was named for a Hispanic guy.
Found it!
“I have never diverted from the listing. The agent writes it up. If they get something wrong, that’s on them.”
“It has been like this for 17 years on this site. Deal with it.”
https://cribchatter.com/lives-like-a-single-family-residence-in-the-sky-a-3-bedroom-at-545-n-dearborn-in-river-north/#comment-1262642
Except, of course, when it’s not like that.
Why is *THIS ONE* different?
“Why is *THIS ONE* different?”
I said why. Because it’s West Loop Gate.
Oh, so West Loop Gate is inviolable. The one neighborhood in the city that cannot be claimed to be something else.
But you’ll say someplace is in Wrigleyville without knowing where the boundaries of Wrigleyville are. (the Truther can handle B’town)
And calling a tiny room with no closet (and sometimes with no door) a “bedroom” is fine.
So the single “why” is “Don’t fuck with West Loop Gate.” Got it.
Can we talk about why it is that West Loop Gate is so, so precious when it apparently wasn’t important a mere 10 years ago?
See:
https://cribchatter.com/views-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see-for-this-1-bedroom-125-s-jefferson-in-the-west-loop/
That post sez the feature was #1406 (same owners still), but the link was to #2309–which sold (including the parking spot each time) in Jul-16 for $325, Jul-18 for $352, and May-21 for $320. Seems due for another sale! RF est is $340k, Zillow is $333k.
My silence is deafening.
125 S Jefferson isn’t in West Loop Gate.
“Oh, so West Loop Gate is inviolable. The one neighborhood in the city that cannot be claimed to be something else.”
It may be that they are giving up on calling it West Loop Gate and it will morph into “West Loop” now. I don’t know. We will see. The area near Union Station has been West Loop Gate for a lot of years but things change especially when you have new neighborhoods like Fulton Market springing up.
“125 S Jefferson isn’t in West Loop Gate”
It’s one and a half blocks north and half a block east of the featured property.
Is “West Loop Gate” a 2 city block “neighborhood”??
IF it exists, it’s from the River to 90/94, from 290 north to ??
I don’t know how anyone could claim that northern line is mf’ing **ADAMS**, but that’s what is being posited here. Inanity!!
“IF it exists, it’s from the River to 90/94, from 290 north to ??”
West Loop Gate has “existed” since I started this blog in 2007 but it may have gone bye-bye now. There are signs in the neighborhood for it, by the way.
Why don’t you google it and find out where the boundaries are? I know it’s around Union Station because that’s where the signs are. Not sure how big it is. I never considered 125 S. Jefferson to be in it, but maybe it is.
Could be that the entire area west of the River will now simply be called “west loop.”
“Why don’t you google it and find out where the boundaries are?”
I did.
Why don’t you?
“I never considered 125 S. Jefferson to be in it”
Ranked inanity.
“I never considered 125 S. Jefferson to be in it”
Somehow though 130 South Canal *is* WLG:
https://cribchatter.com/will-the-downtown-market-recover-in-2021-a-penthouse-loft-at-130-s-canal/
Or at least it was WLG in 2021 and 2019
But in 2018, it was in the Loop (Listing said West Loop)
And in 2015, it was West Loop (Listing said West Loop)
And in December 2010, it was in the Loop
And in April 2010, it was in the West Loop
And in 2008, it was in the Loop
130 s canal is directly across from Union Station, isn’t it?
West Loop Gate is the area right around Union Station including over to the Old Post Office and to the Eisenhower Expressway. I’m not sure how far north it goes. For instance, I never saw that 226 N. Clinton was in West Loop Gate. It’s in the Near West Side OR the “Fulton River District.” That sounds fun and anything with “fulton” in the title is probably pretty hot.
Lol.
Like I said, perhaps this whole area has ditched West Loop Gate and is now being called the West Loop because that name is more prestige.
Let’s be honest, if you said “west loop gate” would anyone know where you were talking about? No. Sometimes there’s a reason neighborhood names fade away.
“Why don’t you?”
Why bother? You’re the only one obsessed with it, for whatever reason. Are you going to be johnc and show up every time there is a property near Union Station and complain that it’s not whatever the realtor says it is? Lol.
“complain that it’s not whatever the realtor says it is”
The realtor said it is West Loop.
YOU are the one “complaining” about what the realtor called the area.
Working in the WH media operation starting next Tuesday?
“YOU are the one “complaining” about what the realtor called the area.”
ME?
I never once even mentioned anything about it. I wrote a post and called it West Loop Gate. You are the one who said, “the realtor calls it West Loop, why are you calling it West Loop Gate?”
And for about a week you’ve been droning on and on about the post. I don’t get it.
The building was always in West Loop Gate BUT, looking around at other listings nearby, it may be that the area is now just being called West Loop by everyone and they are dropping West Loop Gate as a neighborhood designation.
To be honest, it never DID catch on despite the signs in the neighborhood and whatnot. And West Loop is more prestigious so why not just call it that?
I guess I will be calling properties in this area “West Loop” from now on on this blog.