The Best Views in Chicago? A 3-Bedroom at 2550 N. Lakeview in East Lincoln Park
This 3-bedroom in Lincoln Park 2550 at 2550 N. Lakeview in East Lincoln Park came on the market in July 2020.
Built in 2010, Lincoln Park 2550 has 219 units and garage parking.
It was the first new building to be built on Lincoln Park in decades.
It’s a full amenity building with valet guest parking, an indoor pool and spa, a billiards room, a fitness room, a library, a movie theater, a dog run, a kids playground and lush gardens with a fountain.
This unit is on a high floor and has 3 exposures: east, south and west, which includes both the Lake and Lincoln Park as well as the downtown Chicago skyline.
The listing says its been customized from top to bottom.
The interiors were designed by Anthony Michael Interior Design and the property is available fully furnished.
It has 7″ oak hardwood floors with inlay.
The unit also has antique Tibetan sliding interior doors.
All 3 bedrooms are en suite.
The kitchen has wood cabinets, a breakfast bar, stainless steel appliances and a tile backsplash along with an attached breakfast room.
The unit has a media room and a family room, although there’s no family room on the floor plan (maybe the breakfast room?).
It also has a private south facing balcony which overlooks the Chicago skyline.
The property has the features buyers look for including central air, washer/dryer in the unit and it looks like there is 2-car garage parking included.
For those who love Lake and city views, is this a dream home?
Sarah Ziehr at Redfin has the listing. See the pictures and floor plan here.
Unit #S3101: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 2843 square feet
- I couldn’t find any prior sales price in public records
- Originally listed in July 2020 for $3.15 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed at $2,999,888
- Assessments of $3270 a month (includes heat, a/c, gas, parking, doorman, cable, clubhouse, exercise facilities, pool, exterior maintenance, lawn care, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes of $57,658
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- Looks like 2 garage parking spaces are included
- Bedroom #1: 15×12
- Bedroom #2: 18×10
- Bedroom #3: 12×11
- Media room: 12×10
- Foyer: 11×6
- Gallery: 10×5
- Living room: 20×19
- Dining room: 19×15
- Family room: 17×12
- Kitchen: 16×11
- Balcony: 20×12
Amazing views, but I think I’d rather be just a few floors over the tree tops – you’d still get good views of the city and lake, but would make the balcony space more usable.
It would take us all of a week to turn that upholstered dining wall into a Pollock.
At this price point, not crazy about the track lighting. And the bathroom in photo 21 – is that a tension rod shower curtain (and a nearly dead roll of TP)?
I dig the TV room.
At $3MM, I’d be going SFH
That glass fireplace thing is a WTF
Nice to see the restraint not going for the 800SF MBa.
Lots of wasted space via hallways
I don’t think this is a primary home, so I can see the desire NOT to have a SFH. Close the door and leave, no worries when you come back three months later.
Taste of the bones (i.e. the stuff that’s staying, not the décor) is .. hmmm. Some good, some not so. But that’s personal. Is it part of the price? I don’t know, how does it compare to others in this building? With this kind of space I’d prefer to see it empty, but I know I’m the minority there.
Track lighting is unforgiveable. Hubby goes, “It’s too goddamned dark in here, I’m gonna get Larry to put something in.” And in one weekend Home Depot drive-by, there it is.
This building is an eyesore, but this unit is pretty great.
The views are incredible.
(I know we’re not supposed to comment on the furniture, but most of the chairs in this place look pretty uncomfortable!)
For a building that is supposed to offer suburban-home alternatives, it seems cramped. The bedroom sizes are very small, incl. the Master Bd. Building has no pool. Great views. Legitimate urban location, one of the few places in Chicago that can match Manhattan.
“I couldn’t find any prior sales price in public records”
$2.6m, from the developer, in Nov-13.
Story about the interior design:
https://luxesource.com/an-eclectic-chicago-condo-with-lake-michigan-views/#.YC_6-2hKiUk
Story about the interior design:
Thanks for posting; I was wondering if the window-seat-esque couches were custom. (Spoiler for those that don’t want to read the article: they are!)
Here is a lower floor with the original floor plan for S-01:
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2550-N-Lakeview-Ave-UNIT-S2501-Chicago-IL-60614/2083246919_zpid/
Looking at other floor plans for the building, it looks like all have cramped bedrooms.
I am trying to be more positive in my comments so I will add something I like. I like the amount of closet space.
“Story about the interior design”
that’s fascinating. I thought the whole place was staged, just for the sale. It looks like an Ethan Allen showroom.
It’s hard to believe some middle-aged man who is old enough to afford a place like this, would simply turn the whole place over to a homosexual or whatever “designer” and let them run amok. A man’s home is his castle, so the Owner should have some resemblance of his own taste and life in the place. Everything in this place is 21st century brand new, not one iota of the guy’s real life or family history is on dispaly anywhere. Even the wall art of the car racers looks fake.
If you ever go to places like Italy and see some rich homes or urban palazzos, the people have real life stuff around, and some antiques and something more authentic than “designer showroom items”.
Tibetan doors. LOL!! Gay.
Beautiful modern building with great amenities, and wonderful apartment with postcard views of the city, huge windows and beautiful details. I don’t see many post-1935 buildings that I really like, but I like this one.
I would take this over a single-family home for the same price anytime, if only for the views and the security- it is much harder to secure a detached house and you’ll never get views like this. Also, it is impossible to build a swimming pool, let alone an indoor one, on most Lincoln Park house lots. HOA seems rather high, but the building is laden with amenities, and we can assume a high level of service.
Can add that my only quibble is the ugly kitchen with its gas cooktop.
Get rid of your gas. It is a major source of indoor air pollution, emitting nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide. It makes the air in your home 2X to 5X dirtier than the outside air, and it’s a fire and explosion hazard.
For the price of this place, I expect an AGA induction range.
Yes, the views may be the best in Chicago.
The problem: Finding anyone who wants to pay $8,000 a month above and beyond the $3 mln asking price for a unit in this building.
The building itself is actually beautifully done, as much as I hate to admit it since the outside is so ostentatious. I may be wrong, but someone with this much money is probably not interested in this location. I assume the Russian oligarchs want to be downtown.
Sorry – – Gas is the only way to cook and if the past week in TX taught us anything its that electric can be really unreliable. Don’t put all your energy eggs in one basket. You won’t find electric stoves in high end restaurants….or any restaurants…for a reason.
This kitchen is nice. Very high end cabinetry.
“Sorry – – Gas is the only way to cook and if the past week in TX taught us anything its that electric can be really unreliable. Don’t put all your energy eggs in one basket. You won’t find electric stoves in high end restaurants….or any restaurants…for a reason.”
No and no and no and yes, but no.
“Sorry – – Gas is the only way to cook.”
I used to think that, too. But after having had gas, radiant electric and induction, I am completely sold on induction. It’s fast & precise, uses less energy (because you can increase and drop the temp far more quickly), doesn’t heat up the kitchen and is waaay easier to clean.
“I used to think that, too. But after having had gas, radiant electric and induction, I am completely sold on induction. It’s fast & precise, uses less energy (because you can increase and drop the temp far more quickly), doesn’t heat up the kitchen and is waaay easier to clean.”
Agreed LongtimeLurker.
There has been a lot of innovation in non-gas stoves in the last 20 years. But many people still have memories of the old, crappy electric stoves in their first apartment in 1995.
It’s time to check out what is out there.