Get Lake, City, Beach and Navy Pier Views: 990 N. Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast
This 3 bedroom in 990 N. Lake Shore Drive in the Gold Coast originally came on the market in September 2015, and has been on, and off, the market since.
Built in 1973, 990 N. Lake Shore Drive has 145 units and an attached heated garage.
It’s a full amenity building with 24 hour door staff, an outdoor rooftop pool and large sundeck, a new penthouse party room, a fitness room, and on-site maintenance.
It has direct lake views.
This unit is 2 combined units with 3500 square feet.
It has many unique, custom features including a Biltmore-inspired entry, crown and wall moldings, and 26 closets.
The unit has Aniline dyed ash wood floors and a separate full wet bar.
The dining room is an oval with built-in cabinetry.
The kitchen has wood cabinets, granite counter tops with a fulper tiled backsplash and trompe l’oeil hand painted island which overlooks a great room with a wood beamed ceiling and casual dining area which has lake views.
The unit has an office with ebonized mahogany floors and built-ins.
The primary suite has his and her baths that has onyx and marble floors and a floating shower.
It also has a complete sound proof dressing room.
The unit has features buyers looking for including electric heat, central air, washer/dryer in the unit and unlimited garage parking.
It also has direct views of the Lake, Oak Street Beach, Navy Pier and the city skyline.
Originally listed in September 2015 for $2.8 million, it has now been reduced to $1.499 million.
If you love lake views, is this building where you want to be?
Stacey Grossman and Jamie Ficco at Jameson Sotheby’s has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #29DE: 3 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 3500 square feet, 2 combined units
- Sold in March 1990 for $2.05 million
- Sold in June 1992 for $800,000
- Originally listed in September 2015 for $2.8 million
- Reduced
- On and off the market
- Currently listed at $1.499 million
- Assessments of $3079 a month (includes doorman, cable, exercise room, pool, exterior maintenance, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $21,091
- Central Air
- Electric heat
- Unlimited garage parking
- Bedroom #1: 20×13
- Bedroom #2: 14×11
- Bedroom #3: 14×12
- Living room: 30×18
- Kitchen: 16×14
- Dining room: 17×12
- Family room: 24×15
- Office: 14×10
- Sitting room: 9×9
Not my style, but kudos to the owners for customizing their condo and making it feel like a home.
I agree. Total respect for making your home … yours. But this vicarious glimpse is why I read this blog. Holy &^%$# who in the world is the audience for this? Perhaps demo to raw space? Or is that priced in? Was it truly 2 mil in 1990? Yikes.
I want more pictures. What does a sound proof dressing room look like?
How long will it take to sell? I could actually see this being not so far from another’s (not mine) taste as compared to other very customized places. Some beige paint might help.
“Was it truly 2 mil in 1990?”
Looks like CCRD has the PP doubled–should be $1.025m.
as to price: 30E (E is ~2000; D is ~1500) is also on the market, for $850k:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/990-N-Lake-Shore-Dr-60611/unit-30E/home/14119797
It *also* needs a decent amount of work to be up to date. They’re both about the same ppsf. As for a more updated one…
26D is not super current, and is a little taste specific still, but is much closer:
https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/990-N-Lake-Shore-Dr-60611/unit-26D/home/14120312
and is ~25% more psf than both the feature and 30E.
So, yeah, priced in to some extent.
Getting some serious Grandma vibes from this place. Very limited pool of buyers for a unit like this as it currently stand.
Again, not my taste currently — but I kind of like the place. It does look it has been well maintained. You’ve got to look past the owner’s stuff.
It’d be fairly simple to remove the window treatments and hire someone to white wash everything which I think would solve 90% of the aesthetic issues — the ceiling beams and millwork could look phenomenal in a more current palette.
The mahogany bathrooms are reminiscent of a super yacht and kind of tongue in cheek cool in a place with such dramatic lake views.
Love this building for location and lake views, but it has to be north and east side of the structure and high up. A lot of lower floor units are very dark and have almost no views.
Cool place. Could picture Dudley Moore on the phone sitting in that tub.
“It also has a complete sound proof dressing room.”
What’s the non-Fifty Shades purpose of that?
“Pizzagate.”
So, completely made up bullshit, that leads a complete fucking moron to drive across two states to act completely irrationally?
Unless you’re comparing the weirdness of taking that remotely seriously with the weirdness of a soundproof dressing room.
You’re a bad parody account. Try a new schtick.
As others have said, it’s going to be hard to sell this unit because of the decorating. Hard to look past it. A lot to undo, could be expensive.
I always wonder what people were thinking when they overdo things this way. They can’t have resale in mind.
I love the views. You get to see Lake Shore Drive and the lake. Being able to see other buildings reminds you that civilization still exists while also getting the peace of a lake view. Right about now, I like the idea of being somewhere completely removed from other people without being in a remote location. If I didn’t have dogs, I could imagine myself never leaving that apartment for months at a time.
Anon,
I just ignore HH. By responding to him you encourage this garbage.
“What’s the non-Fifty Shades purpose of [a soundproof dressing room]?”
Uh, American Psycho?
Out of curiosity, I just Googled “sound proof dressing room” to see if there was perhaps a logical reason for installing one. Search results game back with adult sites, and various iterations of this listing.
“ I always wonder what people were thinking when they overdo things this way. They can’t have resale in mind.”
They did live here for 29 years
Circa early 90s – “Greed is good” era – fits
Also most people have terrible taste
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The eating area off the TV room is to kill for.
Building exterior is pretty meh. Owners and buyers are in a tough spot, think it would take north of $250/sf to get this place to where it should be. Unfortunately, I don’t think the building warrants it from a financial perspective, but what you’d have + views at under $700/sf could be magnificent
Agree exterior is meh. Whoever designed it should have had more respect considering the site is so prominent.
Can’t say I’ve ever seen dark green wood flooring before but it fits with this hideously ugly building I guess?
“I always wonder what people were thinking when they overdo things this way. They can’t have resale in mind.”
They are LIVING. They decorate how they want to.
Not everyone decorates so that they can sell it 3 years later.
They choose what they love.
It is their HOME.
“Love this building for location and lake views, but it has to be north and east side of the structure and high up.”
This unit seems to have the views Dan #2.
Just auction this POS nobody’s gonna buy it for the interior design
Why is it that so many people who prefer overstuffed traditional interiors rampant with flounces, swags, gilt, carving, brocade, and patterns, elect to buy sleek modern homes just to stuff them with all of the above..
… while other people buy beautiful, densely ornate old apartments and houses, just to clean-wall them to death, remove walls, and fit them out with exposed ducts, track lights, open-tread metal staircases?
My late mother once said there are two classes of people, those who like vines covering their houses and those who don’t, and they’re always buying each other’s properties. It’s the same thing.