Living With Curved Walls in The Living Room: 1910 S. State in the South Loop
This 2-bedroom unit in the Pointe 1900, at 1910 S. State, in the South Loop doesn’t have your typical new construction square box layout.
As one of the turret units- it has a curved living room with multiple windows.
It also has 2 balconies.
The kitchen has stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
The unit has central air, in-unit washer/dryer and parking is included.
Listed for $55,000 under the 2004 purchase price, is this a deal?
Ron Knoll at Saffron Realty has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #209: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 2004 for $370,000
- Currently listed for $315,000 (parking included)
- Assessments of $542 a month (includes heat, cable, parking)
- Taxes of $4594
- Central Air
- Washer-Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 13×13
- Bedroom #2: 11×15
- Living room: 29×21
- Kitchen: 10×10
I could have hours of fun inviting Groove over and asking him to put my chair in the corner!
does this even qualify as the ‘south loop’..i have a hard time calling anything south of 16th ( and at the very very most, 18th ) street ‘south loop’. There isn’t much going on around this area, can’t really walk to much aside from mccormick, chase bank, and opart thai house ( awesome curry fried rice ).
I honestly think you can get a much better 2/2 for 300-350k, especially in the south loop. the circular room is really cool though – wish the windows were bigger.
oh yeah, the carpet in the bedroom is kind of ugly.
I know I’d want to have a turret if I lived this close to the Ickes Homes…
I shit you not, I was driving and took a wrong turn down this street one july 4th about 7 years ago and people were shooting guns in the air like people set off M-80’s it was insanity
“does this even qualify as the ’south loop’”
Okay it’s North Chinatown
The idea of a circular room like that sounds cool, but I think if you tried it out in actuality, it would be a waste of space. I don’t know about you but all of my furniture is either a square or rectangle and has few curves. I feel you would end up squaring off the room with your stuff and end up wasting a lot of space. Unless you want to go out and buy new chic round furniture which in 5 years will probably look even more ridiculous then it would now.
Sooo…. round room… looks cool, but not that great of a design feature.
It has some interesting aspects, but (as others have noted) it’s rather far south. So not a deal. I’d guess that it goes for around $250k.
“does this even qualify as the ’south loop’”
Yes, I think generally most people would say it’s down to Cermak, now whether you’d wanna live there is a different story.
Circle room looks gimmicky, I can’t imagine making good use of it with my furniture, or any furniture and that’s not gonna cut it when it’s supposed to be your major living area. Location is pretty meh too being on the far end right next to public housing, add blah finishes, high rise assessments, and this seems way overpriced.
Ickes was terrible, but is gone now. 7 years is a long time in this neighborhood as far as changes go. I mentioned below in another thread before (http://cribchatter.com/?p=8334),
As far as “There isn’t much going on around this area, can’t really walk to much aside from mccormick, chase bank, and opart thai house ( awesome curry fried rice ).” Cafe Bionda as well as the mentioned Opart (both are in the building and well regarded), Kroll’s, Triad Sushi, South Coast sushi, Chef Luciano’s Gourmet Chicken (gotta try it if you haven’t), La Cantina are all within 3 blocks to here, the entire food offering of Chinatown is 3 blocks away west. If you really can’t stand walking for 3 min, then 3 min drive north you’ve got the Roosvelt/Wabash big box corridor. Going east for 3-4 blocks, you’ve got prairie district parks and awesome neighborhood association and their events year round (indoor public kids playground now at 18th and Indiana, how many of those can you say are in the city?).
There are also about half a dozen daycares in literally the 1 mile radius (a new one just opened up in that building itself) one can pick from, which I’m very jealous of now that I’m on the north side and having a heck of time finding one that I can walk to in reasonable amount of comfort/time in winter.
Only thing truly sucks about this area is access to L (plenty of bus on Michigan and state though, in fact, two bus stops #62/#29 outside of the building’s door), and of course, not “established” neighborhood rep, whatever that means. Disclaimer: I lived at 18th and Indiana, so I know the hood.
“Only thing truly sucks about this area is access to L”
From this particular property it’s not bad at all. Chinatown L stop has an entry on Archer nowadays, so it’s a 0.3 mile walk.
That’s true, I totally forgot that they changed the Chinatown L stop exit from Cermak to Archer now, good catch!
Jc,
Didn’t cafe bionda shut down? Yeah Chef Lucianos is decent but is in the middle of the freaking ghetto. Triad and krolls are both average, and are in the lobby of other condo buildings. South coast is decent , otherwise nothing worthwhile around here in my opinion. It’s a really long walk to Roosevelt, and what’s their anyways, a crappy jewel and Zapatista? Opera shut down and was the only really good restaurant in the hood in my opinion. I lived at 18th and Michigan and also at 13th and prairie and wouldn’t lie south of Roosevelt ever again.
Live, there *
Stupid autocorrect
opera shut down?
damn that sucks, I enjoyed their 3 duck dish
“Opera shut down and was the only really good restaurant in the hood in my opinion.”
Overpriced average Chinese food restaurant failing in a hood right next to Chinatown? Who would have thought… but at least they are reopening as a completely different concept so no loss to the hood.
As for what’s around, South Coast is decent (used to be better though), Tapas Valencia, Flo & Santos, Panozzos, Firehouse, Opart, Cafe Bionda, all worth it imo (though nothing world class I’ll admit), but I do most of my dining out in Chinatown anyways. Kroll’s is a decent place to get drunk at, but the food is utter dogshit. Bar wise Flo & Santos rules supreme by far.
Riz, Bionda is thriving still every time I go by on the weekends, especially in the summer day their side walks are packed late into nights. I’m not crazy about most of the restaurant offerings like you, but they have their moments. I like Krolls’s for game watching and their international beer list, Triad’s got a good ambiance for dates, but food is overpriced for its quality, nice bar to hang out though if you just want to chat.
As far as Roosevelt corridor, Trader Joe’s coming later this year at Wabash and Roosevelt. I do enjoy Bongo room a lot (may not be for everyone with it’s ridiculous weekend waits) and Eleven City Diner. Never really got/get Yolk but it’s always seems to be packed on wkds. Panozzo’s is fantastic for carrying out cold cuts and/or some sandwiches for those summer events in Grand Parks and lakefront. Whole foods also seems to get busier and busier every time I go there. There’s always Manny’s, but now we are getting too far away from the property at hand.
Btw, Opart was Michellin’ed earlier this year (http://www.sloopin.com/2010/11/opart-thai-house-receives-michellin-bib.html)
Personally for me, best Thai around south side of the city for me (not that I’m a Thai food expert).
This might be too south for many of us but I would not call it ghetto. I think the price is way more reasonable than most of the Mccrap on the north side IMHO.
“I could have hours of fun inviting Groove over and asking him to put my chair in the corner!”
jason i did catch the dig, sorry really busy and brain is being monopolized couldn’t respond with a quick funny jab back. so this is all i got;
or you could invite groove to your uptown place and watch him dodge crazies and gangbangers trying to make to your front door only to finally be stabbed by a yuppie celebrating the elect replacement for hellen schiller.
“I know I’d want to have a turret if I lived this close to the Ickes Homes…”
Moved out and torn down. Nothing left but empty lots. Really not a bad area, just hasn’t developed much of a community sense yet. Every time I roll through the area it seems dead… even the times I have gone to big shows at Reggies its pretty dead. I am not sure how pricing in this area relates to northern SLoop pricing, but I would imagine it has sub 300 written all over it.
Assessment fail. Price fail. Hood fail. Room fail.
True story, the sloop has been the “last stop” in Chicago for every single person I know that has lived there. They get sick of it after a year and a half and then move to DenAustAttleLand.
Then after they get to DenAustAttleLand they call and complain non-stop that none are as cool as Chi and they miss LP, Wrigglyville, and “Downtown” as they call it.
Too funny.
Of course all the people I know that leave the the city on the North side move to Milwaukee and Pittsburgh and then never shut up about how cool they are.
Weird times we live in.
Yes, I know I spelled Wrigleyville wrongly.
@jc – totally agree with your perspective on that part of the South Loop. LOVE Opart, too! We used to live at Cullerton/Wabash for five years and loved it. Enjoyed watching the Ickes homes tumble down, too. The area is really convenient in general–public transit a straight, easy shot. Traffic reasonable to get to highways and LSD. The footbridge to the lakefront is not far from there… And all the restaurants are convenient, too, as you pointed out. I know that the South Loop has an over-abundant number of units available (thank you developers!), but that does not mean the area itself is bad.
@ Groove, man I was wondering what took you so long!
Yesterday was a wonderful moment in Uptown history!
The circular room is perfect for a grand piano.
So most of you don’t like boxes nor circular rooms. Should developers try triangled rooms next or trapezoids?