Sunrises and Moonrises from this 1-Bedroom at 910 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville
This corner 1-bedroom in 910 N. Lake Shore Drive in Streeterville came on the market in May 2021.
Built in 1955, 910 is the sister building to 900 N. Lake Shore Drive. Both were designed by Mies van der Rohe.
910 has 153 units.
It has door staff, rental parking, a bike room and an exercise room.
The listing says this unit was a “complete designer renovation of a 3-bedroom” into a 1/1.5 bath unit with an office.
It has maple hardwoods throughout and is wired for sound.
The unit has custom built-ins and a new open kitchen with an island, quartz countertops, and built-in “top of the line” appliances.
The bedroom doesn’t appear to have a door but it does have a full en suite bath with a double vanity, soaking tub and separate shower and a big walk-in-closet.
There is no washer/dryer in the unit but there’s a laundry room in the building.
The unit has central air and while there is rental parking available the listing says there is a 2 month wait for parking but you can park in other garages within a block in the meantime.
This unit has floor to ceiling windows with dead one views of Lake Michigan, including the sunrises and moonrises.
The listing also says you can see local and migratory birds and the Navy Pier fireworks.
Originally listed in May 2021 for $589,000, it has been reduced $49,000 to $540,000.
For those who love lake views, is this the ideal apartment?
Peggy Quinn and Steve Richardson at BerkshireHathaway HomeServices have the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit 2619: 1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, 1436 square feet
- Sold in June 1987 for $225,000
- Sold in July 1994 for $375,000
- Originally listed in May 2021 for $589,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $540,000
- Assessments of $1530 a month (includes heat, air conditioning, doorman, cable, Internet, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, and snow removal)
- Taxes of $10,094
- Central Air
- No washer/dryer in the unit but laundry room in the building
- Rental parking is available but there’s a 2 month wait
- Bedroom: 15×14
- Living room: 19×17
- Dining room: 19×10
- Kitchen: 20×11
- Office: 12×7
- Walk-in-closet: 11×8
my commentary
– It’s a Mies building so I would expect it to be all electric.
– wish they would put the parking rental price in the listing.
– while I like the concept of an office, that space is a bit small. Going to have to be one of those all in one computers because using a laptop everyday all the time isn’t as productive.
– I would prefer the auto double blinds. One layer for privacy but letting in light and the other layer for blackout.
thank you for the listing
Ideal apartment? No. No bathtub, no outdoor space, no w/d, no bedroom door, too dark, ugly bathroom. Top of the line Bosch line not BSH. And, I generally like the buildings.
I take it back, there is a bathtub. I was too distracted by the ugly grey tile.
Views are awesome and I like Mies designs, too bad this interior doesn’t work with the building. The rounded soffit/rope light screams 2000 suburban office lobby
HOA is close to PI, but it includes a common coin laundry lol.
SF is overstated
Needs a bigger haircut
I actually think there’s a pool of buyers for this– it’s a good amount of space (though it must have originally been a TINY 3 br!) and the updates appear to be of good quality and not badly out of date for the most part. I agree with JohnnyU that the curves seem a bit out of place, but perhaps they were playing off the theme of waves?!
For around $400/sq. ft. with an amazing lake view, corner (some other views) and pretty nicely updated, this seems a decent value for the right person (despite the laundry/pkg challenges and the assessment)
I do find it interesting that the current price is only $165K over what this place sold for in 1994 (!!) despite a renovation that had to have cost at least 200K.
One of the nicer looking units I’ve seen in the Mies buildings. At least there’s a lake view (he seems to have designed this set of four buildings so the fewest possible apartments could see the lake, judging from the units I’ve seen listed over the years).
I can see why the price has come down. No in-unit laundry (or possibility of one, I assume). No door to the bedroom. No second bedroom. Other problems with these buildings include not enough elevators (a design flaw that can’t be rectified) and most views straight into other high rises.
A lake view is nice, but I find direct lake views slightly dull. And there’s nothing to see at night.
I predict this one will fall further.
Looks like they added a second pane of windows on the interior to muffle LSD noise or was this done on all units? Sorry, not LSD, JBPDLSD for the woke creatures.
“I do find it interesting that the current price is only $165K over what this place sold for in 1994 (!!) despite a renovation that had to have cost at least 200K.”
I thought the same thing JAH.
Were these buildings the “it” buildings in the early 1990s?
Was there a mini-condo boom going on in the early 1990s in downtown which pushed up prices?
I know the original prices in buildings like 100 E Huron which was built in the early 1990s also seem “high” now but there were fewer luxury buildings back then so you paid a premium for some of them.
Anyone know?
“Were these buildings the “it” buildings in the early 1990s?”
Small Sample size but IME yes these 2 and LPT
Seemed to be popular as PAT/2nd homes with the over 50 crowd that liked Bolivian marching powder and their kids/family members that had access to the units.
Not into the floor plan. Needs a second bedroom or true office. These days, office with a view hugely preferred.
“Needs a second bedroom or true office.”
This is going to be a big issue with 1-bedrooms going forward, right? Not just condos, but apartments too.
If people are going back to their offices just 2 days a week, do you want to work from home in the small 625 square foot 1-bedroom on the other days with your partner or spouse also at home on those same days?
At least this condo DOES have a separate office space, but it could use a door or something to create some privacy.
“do you want to work from home in the small 625 square foot 1-bedroom on the other days with your partner or spouse also at home on those same days?”
Do you even want to do it if you live alone? You either cram the “desk” area into the bedroom, or the public area, and have very limited ability to sequester work.
With two people in that size space–basically impossible for many (but not all) kinds of jobs.
While the style isn’t what I would choose, I think the layout serves a purpose as an in-town for the right person. ~2500/mo for a cash buyer. I love the views, but would personally need some outdoor space at this price point and would prefer in-unit W/D.
“Do you even want to do it if you live alone?”
Office workers have been doing it for 18 months anon(tfo). And all the small, luxury apartments have filled back up.
Talking with my kids, they tell me that for couples it works if one person is working off site now (aka a teacher, nurse, doctor, dentist etc.) Then the other person has the apartment all to themselves.
Why do you have to have a desk, by the way?
I’ve been working on the dining room table, the kitchen island, the couch. Now that no one has a desk top, you can basically be anywhere in your house (out on the balcony etc.)
“Office workers have been doing it for 18 months anon(tfo).”
Sure, but do you *want* to?
“Why do you have to have a desk”
Scare quotes have meaning. “Desk” was intentional–work area on a coffee table, whatever. I want some visual separation, unless it’s the odd day working at home for a delivery or sick kid or whatever, when the breakfast bar is fine.
If I could work efficiently from just a laptop, I’d be able to work 80%+ as efficiently from just a phone. Two screens is basically a necessity, and setting up and tearing down even with a portable 2d screen is undesirable.
ps: “if one person is working off site now” was not your original question.
it was:
“do you want to work from [1 bed apt] with your partner or spouse also at home on those same days?”
And then–can you fit a kitchen island, dining room table and proper couch into a 625sf apartment?
“And then–can you fit a kitchen island, dining room table and proper couch into a 625sf apartment?”
Many have islands. They ARE eating somewhere. Go look at the floor plans.
So, yes.
And yes, you can fit a couch into an apartment that is just 625 sq ft.
“Sure, but do you *want* to?”
The apartment buildings have filled back up with the tenants fully knowing they were NOT going back to the office any time soon and when they do go back, it might be for just 1 or 2 days a week.
These tenants are making an informed choice now. It’s not like last year when they got stuck in these apartments during the pandemic. There’s been a lot of moving around to get the “right” space. Some are definitely choosing the small 1-bedroom without an office, or even space for a desk, as their option.
Maybe someone who reads this blog can fill us in on why they chose that option even while working from home.
Do you need a separate office space like this condo has or is it irrelevant?
Last year, I thought that apartment developers would switch out floorplans going forward to ALWAYS include a small office niche. But so far, I haven’t seen any real changes in that direction. Probably because occupancy jumped back up quickly so the “old” product is still renting and why mess with it?
Wow this should not be over $400K either. The office is a joke, no balcony, half the views are right into another residential building, etc. Yikes.
Rob–let me try to answer your points.
1) we’ll see what the market says, but I doubt this will go for anywhere near 400K
2) Clearly the design emphasis was on the open LR/DR (was much smaller before 2 BRs were removed) and on adding closet &bathroom space. Below is a link to what I think was the original floorplan when it was a 3BR.
3) The office, to me, seems like a clever use of what might otherwise be just a hallway, by using the angle to share space between the huge closet and the work “nook”
4) Criticizing the view?! While I agree with Dan #2 that a full on lake view isn’t great at night, the view will sell this place & is seen from LR/DR/Kitchen, BR, entrance. If someone doesn’t like the side view, close or tilt the blinds, but it’s far better than only having a view in one direction (looks like you can see Oak street beach & some sliver of Northwest view)
https://www.google.com/search?q=910+lake+shore+drive+floor+plans&sxsrf=AOaemvKuAhGrAJ8BbbKu2hLxD26WI4KvYg:1634909827024&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi8nurbkd7zAhWgmmoFHcSDD9QQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1565&bih=766&dpr=1.8#imgrc=ukqkk3s5d40TbM
You’re right about no balcony, but that’s an issue with a number of buildings.
“Wow this should not be over $400K either. The office is a joke, no balcony, half the views are right into another residential building, etc. Yikes.”
“Many have islands. They ARE eating somewhere. Go look at the floor plans.
So, yes.”
You left out the dining room table. I asked if you can fit all three in 625 feet.
So the correct answer is “So, no.”
“You left out the dining room table. I asked if you can fit all three in 625 feet.”
Yes, you can have a dining room table in 625 sq ft. Look at the models anon(tfo). Plenty of people have 2 person dining room tables in their small apartments all over the world anon(tfo).
Yes, they have islands, dining room tables, and full size couches.
It all depends on the layout. Some of the smaller “convertibles” (which are those in 600 square foot land) have the pullman kitchen and the dining table and no island. But if you’re up at like 675 sq ft you may get the island AND the dining room table.
Depends on the layout though, like I said. Long and narrow and they will put the kitchen in the hallway so no island.
Also depends on if they put in a WIC or not.
Too many factors.
But yes, many people are working at places other than a “desk.” Why not?
“working at places other than a “desk.””
If I’m working on an airplane, I’m at my “desk”.
on a park bench? at my “desk”
on the convertible tailgate of my Chevy pickup? at my “desk”
At my office desk? at my “desk”
You put it in quotes, then “desk” doesn’t mean desk, it means where you are doing “desk work”
I want a “desk” area that is separate from my “not work” space if I am using that “desk” area 3x+ per week.
To each their own, but I believe that’s ‘making do’, rather than actual preference, for almost all who do mainly “desk work”.
“To each their own, but I believe that’s ‘making do’, rather than actual preference, for almost all who do mainly “desk work”.”
Not everyone is you anon(tfo).
We all don’t do the same jobs.
And apparently, everyone who is renting the THOUSANDS of small luxury apartments downtown, don’t care about having space for a desk. Or are managing to put it into the corner somewhere or work on their dining room table etc.
I was the person who said last year that the developers would be adding office nooks or spaces to the apartment floorplans because of work from home.
I was wrong. There are NO signs of this- yet.
So why would it impact a condo’s sale?
This condo actually HAS a separate office space, which is unusual in most 1-bedrooms.
This remodeled 1-bedroom just closed at $540,000.