Want New? Get a Lake Facing 2/2 for $1.19 Million: 211 N. Harbor in Lakeshore East
This 2-bedroom in Cirrus at 211 N. Harbor in Lakeshore East came on the market in January 2022.
Built in 2022, Cirrus is the final luxury condo building in the Lakeshore East planned community.
It has 350 units ranging from 1 bedrooms to 4 bedrooms.
It’s a full amenity building with 48,000 square feet of “resort-style wellness” and sits next to the newly opened Cascade Park.
From the listing:
The amenity space on the 41st floor has a spectacular terrace for outdoor entertaining opportunities including the lawn, fire pit, grilling station with adjacent alfresco dining, and rooftop seating. Indoor entertaining includes a chef’s table, demonstration kitchen, and a private dining room/wine lounge, all while basking in one-of-a-kind views of Lake Michigan, DuSable Harbor, and of course, fireworks at Navy Pier.
Other outdoor amenities include a pool with pool lounge, firepit, and grilling stations overlooking Lake Michigan. A wide variety of indoor active amenities staffed by a wellness concierge include a wet lounge, indoor lap pool with hydrotherapy pool, state of the art fitness center, strength studio, motion studio, and locker rooms with steam rooms.
Relax in the planted winter garden conservatory overlooking Cascade Park or utilize the massage room or salon. Kids enjoy their own splash pad and kid’s club. There are several work from home spaces, both private and conference rooms available, along with multiple lounge areas.
Work on your hobbies in the maker space or play music in the jam room equipped with a baby grand piano, electric drums and string instruments. Watch a movie or the big game in the screening room or challenge friends to billiards, shuffleboard, or simulated sports options available in the sports simulator room.
Cirrus is a pet friendly building with indoor dog run and pet spa along with the outdoor Bark Park. There is also a bike room with bike wash that has easy access to the new bike/pedestrian trails out to the lakefront.
This 2-bedroom faces the Lake and has views of the Lake and Navy Pier.
It has wide plank white oak floors in the main living areas.
The kitchen has Snaidero cabinets, Dornbracht fixtures, quartz counter tops, an island, Gaggenau gas cooktop and integrated cabinet panel Bosch dishwasher.
This is a split floor plan with a foyer.
The units have washer/dryer in the units, air conditioning and parking is available for extra.
There’s no private balcony. There are several floor plans that do have a balcony, however. But not all units have one.
Listed at $1.19 million for 1255 square feet, are the new downtown condos able to compete with the new luxury apartments?
Christine Lutz at Wolf Residential has the listing. See the pictures here.
You can also check out the floor plans on the Cirrus website here.
Unit #1404: 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1255 square feet
- New construction
- Listed in January 2022 for $1.19 million
- Parking is extra
- Assessments of $942 a month (includes heat, a/c, gas, doorman, exercise room, pool, exterior maintenance, scavenger, snow removal)
- Taxes are “new”
- Central Air
- Washer/dryer in the unit
- East facing
- Bedroom #1: 14×12
- Bedroom #2: 10×15
- Living/dining room combo: 17×16
- Kitchen: 15×11
Looks like a ritzy old folks home
Probably makes a nice part-time home for a HNW individual
Did Magellan have left over tile from the previous building they built over the last 15 years. That second bathroom wall and floor tile is terrible, especially at close to $1000/sf.
Relaxing poolside next to an 8 lane highway sounds lovely. Property taxes will be $26,000 annually on 1,200 sqft. No thanks.
I think someone would be better off renting 1,200 sqft next door at Cascade.
Looks like a $3500-$4000/mo rental to me. Way too expensive for what it is.
“I think someone would be better off renting 1,200 sqft next door at Cascade.”
That’s an option, right?
Luxury apartments are definitely competition.
Cirrus has some lovely amenities. They definitely ARE matching the new apartment towers in that department. But, yeah, being that close to a major road isn’t ideal.
Notice how there are no balconies on the east side of the building.
“Looks like a ritzy old folks home”
Then every new apartment tower “looks” the same because this is basically what the new apartment towers all look like.
“renting 1,200 sqft next door at Cascade”
The big 2/2 (high floor 11 unit) is 1121, asking $4,378, and has kinda funky room shapes. Not a fan.
The 3/2 (high floor 11 unit) is 1332, asking ~$5800, and is much more comparable to this.
$5800 is still about a 3 cap on the asking price here (assuming $2k/mo taxes), so an easy winner for sub-5 year horizons.
“Looks like a $3500-$4000/mo rental to me.”
This would actually rent for $5,500 to $7,000 a month in a luxury building in 2022 with a lake view.
Are the photos the actual unit? Seems much lower than 14 floors up. From the photos, it looks like you’re basically 10 feet above LSD.
Also, maybe some people don’t care about a private balcony, but if you buy a unit in a building with balconies, it seems silly to buy one that doesn’t have one. Because it could be a problem when you try to sell it. Especially if you buy for $1.2 million and hope to make any kind of profit someday. Which seems unlikely with this unit even if it did have a balcony, by the way.
This would actually rent for $5,500 to $7,000 a month in a luxury building in 2022 with a lake view.
Really? Can rent a nice/newer oceanfront 2/2 condo in SoCal for that price.
I remember when I visited in November seeing these buildings and thought to myself “good god those are some ugly buildings, I wonder what kind of astronomical rents they will be charging”
Apparently they are condos… wow
And talk about an abysmal location for that pool, if its not shaded by 10AM by the building to the south, you get to relax and take in some noise and air pollution from lake shore drive right next to it… they should have put it on the roof, now that would have been more “costly” but it would have actually been nice. Greedy pathetic developers.
“they should have put it on the roof, now that would have been more “costly” but it would have actually been nice.”
Nooooooo…..
Roof is TERRIBLE. Those pools are unusable. Too much wind. Too hot with too much sun.
I’ve been at the St Regis pool. It’s not the roof but somewhere around the 40s. 45th floor? Plants can’t live out there. Just a bunch of concrete and blazing hot. If there are even moderate winds, can’t really be out there.
Roof top pools on tall buildings are TERRIBLE. Noooooooo…..
The Cirrus put a restaurant, indoor kitchen, party room on the high floor. That makes sense. Can still put table/chairs out there.
Seems like they didn’t lose any opportunities here. They even put a semi-indoor garden on the back side that overlooks the Cascade Park (lovely.)
“Really? Can rent a nice/newer oceanfront 2/2 condo in SoCal for that price.”
Chicago is a superstar city. You pay superstar prices to be here Nyet.
These ARE new luxury apartments. Can’t think it would be “nice/newer” when the building was just built in 2021-2022 in Chicago.
Just looked at Cascade, which is next door. Nothing equivalent to this unit. Can get a 2/2 at around 1,000 square feet for mid-$4000s. Not sure the views.
Can get a 3/2 at 1332 square feet, so slightly larger, for $5800.
A little cheaper than One Chicago at that square footage.
“Are the photos the actual unit? Seems much lower than 14 floors up. From the photos, it looks like you’re basically 10 feet above LSD.”
Don’t know. I tried to pick one of the listings that looked like it had actual photos, instead of renderings. They are opening the model shortly so these could be from the model.
“Chicago is a superstar city. You pay superstar prices to be here Nyet.”
A good comp would be Pam Anderson. Unfortunately its not the early 90’s version, its the Pam Anderson of today.
Yeah, the $6 billion Lincoln Yards project is about to start its next phase.
Those routinely get built in doomed cities that aren’t attracting global companies and talent.
Lenders are investing heavily in Chicago. I guess they’re clueless, right JohnnyU?
How DUMB.
Looks like my old optima apartment with nicer appliances and a better view. but 100 sqft smaller.
So $5000/month with a couple free months at optima for 1300 sqft v. $250,000 down and $7,000/month to buy 1200 sqft here? Tough choice. Does it come with parking?
“So $5000/month with a couple free months at optima for 1300 sqft v. $250,000 down and $7,000/month to buy 1200 sqft here? Tough choice. Does it come with parking?”
Parking is extra in the Cirrus.
Optima doesn’t get you the Lake and Navy Pier views. But I do like the Optima amenities, which are quite nice.
You’re not getting 3 months free rent anymore in the downtown towers Stacy. Market is way too hot for that.
In a 2/2 split plan similar to this one in the Cirrus, Apex 02 unit on the 47th floor, the website is giving me a rent of $5953 a month, or 15 months at $5550.
Optima also has some 923 square foot 1-bedrooms that are listed at $3900 a month (high floor) with a 15-month lease.
Wow.
“Optima doesn’t get you the Lake and Navy Pier views. But I do like the Optima amenities, which are quite nice.”
So city views are no longer preferred?
“These ARE new luxury apartments. Can’t think it would be “nice/newer” when the building was just built in 2021-2022 in Chicago.”
By “newer” I meant built in the last 10 years. Brand new 2022 oceanfront 2/2 in most areas of SoCal will almost certainly be more expensive than Cirrus.
Chicago is a great city but this unit at Cirrus is overpriced imo. Nice views and all.
“Brand new 2022 oceanfront 2/2 in most areas of SoCal”
How much inventory is that? I’m a bit out of the loop, but not thinking of a ton of oceanfront-ish (or even oceanview, with a short walk to the water) land available for multifamily in SoCal.
“And talk about an abysmal location for that pool”
The adjacent Park Shore (ah my days there) has a pool on the roof.
If I am paying for the views, then for me personally I would buy/rent at the park shore instead. And then take the money saved for high end amenities like equinox etc.