Love to Entertain? 2 Balconies and a Rooftop Oasis: 2028 W. Pierce in Wicker Park
This penthouse 3-bedroom at 2028 W. Pierce in Wicker Park came on the market in June 2018.
Built in 2001, it has 8 units and gated parking.
This top floor unit is duplex up and has 20 foot atrium ceilings in the living/dining room along with a south facing balcony.
The bedrooms and kitchen/living space are all on the first floor.
The kitchen has wood cabinets, granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances.
The master suite has a north facing private balcony.
The stairs lead to the second floor mezzanine and media room which has sliding doors to what the listing calls the “rooftop oasis.”
The 820 square foot rooftop deck has a pergola and views of the Robey Hotel.
The unit has central air, washer/dryer in the unit and 1 gated parking space.
Originally listed for $699,000 it was reduced $49,000 to $650,000.
Is this an ideal property for those who love to entertain?
Patrick Smith at @Properties has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #7: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, duplex up, no square footage listed
- Sold in June 2001 for $408,000
- Sold in November 2005 for $585,000
- Originally listed in June 2018 for $699,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $650,000
- Assessments of $289 a month (includes exterior maintenance and snow removal)
- Taxes of $8636
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Gated parking included
- Wood burning fireplace
- Bedroom #1: 16×13 (main level)
- Bedroom #2: 11×11 (main level)
- Bedroom #3: 11×11 (main level)
- Laundry room: 6×6 (main level)
- Family room: 20×15 (second floor)
- Terrace: 41×20
love how the furniture magically appears and disappears from picture to picture!
Honestly, I’m tempted to buy this just to cut down on Nightingale’s commute as the public school is decent enough.
On the other hand, this is way beyond our price range if we want to retire early and I prefer Portage to Wicker Park. and I say this as someone who desperately wanted to live in Wicker Park in the 90s.
At the price point it seems a decent deal. The loft area will make this usable for a family and the outdoor area looks nice
Whats holding this one back is it hasn’t been updated in 17 years and the non-MBR are small.
To me it makes zero sense to access the tub thru the shower. Its a failed attempt at Faux Luxury
Paint everything grey, dark stain the HW floor & Cabinets and go with white countertops and this would move right away…
Agree with JohnnyU (which explains why he commented on my place the other day!).
I’d add to the list – paint trim and doors white. Too funny on the magic furniture!
yuck this is some seriously fugly late 90’s early 2000’s pomo shlock
and who the hell would want to live at the shitshow that is damen and North avenue… no thanks!
“100 yards from the greenery of Wicker Park’s gardens, ball fields and dog park”
Left out hobo camp.
“the public school is decent enough”
is the neighborhood portion decent?
“Paint everything grey, dark stain the HW floor & Cabinets and go with white countertops and this would move right away…”
Actually, very light hardwood floors are way more on-trend than dark stained ones. If these were the “golden oak” colored light stain, I would say refinish. But the floors look more “blonde” and this is coming back in a big way. Staging this place with a “hygge” look is the way to go. Kitchen cabinets are also okay. The thing that dates the place are the dark granite countertops and the bathroom tiles. White countertops would not go with the cabinets, so I suggest a soft grey concrete or honed quartz.
Great floor plan. I’d leave the finishes alone and just trim the price a bit to let people make their own decisions on updates, a lot of the suggested updates are ugly, quite possibly soon to expire as “on trend” and would stick out as an obvious and incomplete attempt to modernize “on the cheap”.
Actually, very light hardwood floors are way more on-trend than dark stained ones.
You’re right Vissi. The dark walnut floors are already “out” on both coasts. The light floors are back just like the early 1990s!
It will probably take a few more years before we really see them in lots of Chicago new construction. Although, I wonder what they’re putting in One Bennett Park? I wouldn’t be surprised to see the light floors in there.
I’ve been noticing very light floors in some high end new construction here lately, and like them, but to me those look different than the floors in this place. This one, at least from the photos, looks just the floors that were in my old place when I bought it — they would have been c. ’98.
The new light floors today are not too similar to that of the 90’s. Certainly not the high gloss, honey gold color that was installed then. Much more of a matte, washed look using wide planks.
” I wonder what they’re putting in One Bennett Park?”
Take a look at the renderings. They are light, but as I mentioned, nothing like the 90’s.
https://www.onebennettpark.com/condo/residences
“The new light floors today are not too similar to that of the 90’s. Certainly not the high gloss, honey gold color that was installed then.”
Honey gold?
Not in Chicagoland luxury houses.
They were grayish white or nearly white oak. Super light colored floors with white kitchen cabinets. Then the “dark” came in. Now the white cabinets are back but the dark floors remained, until now.
But you’re correct about the size of the planks. They were NOT wide plank floors in the 1990s. Still the narrow planks.