We Love Full Floor Penthouses With Private Roof Decks: 1117 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park
This 3-bedroom penthouse at 1117 W. Armitage in Lincoln Park has more space than many single family homes in the neighborhood.
It also has two large private decks, including a 45×19 terrace off the master bedroom with a hot tub and a 35×17 deck that is entirely private on the roof with views of downtown and the rest of the city.
The unit takes up the entire top floor of the building and the elevator opens directly into the space.
It has custom built-ins, Brazilian wood floors and skylights.
The kitchen has stainless steel appliances and granite counter tops.
The bathrooms are marble and granite.
Originally listed in March 2011, it has been reduced $130,000.
Is this a deal for someone who doesn’t want the hassles of a single family home but wants the location and square footage?
Kathleen Krist-Krueger at Krist-Krueger Realty has the listing. See the pictures here.
Unit #4: 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 3000 square feet
- Sold in February 2001 for $972,500
- Originally listed in March 2011 for $1.269 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $1.139 million (2 car parking is $60,000 extra)
- Assessments of $488 a month
- Taxes of $16084
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 20×19
- Bedroom #2: 15×12
- Bedroom #3: 13×12
Bedrooms and the bath are ok, but what a lame living room and kitchen, both the layout and finishes. Of course the furnishing don’t help a bit either.
I expected this place to be really awesome but after looking at the photos was rather uninspired by what I saw. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a lot of space and a good layout, I was just disappointed with the finishes and decorating all around.
LOL at the extra $60k for parking. That tells you the kind of delusional, “my home is special”, type of owner you’re dealing with here.
I second miumiu and Wilson. As this place is about 700 address units (350 doors?) than I’d want to live, I too was really expecting to be blow away by this listing.
p.s. I’d say that it’s been reduced $69k (note the parking nonsense).
why can’t these stupid agents just put the parking in with the price… I mean seriously, a property this expensive, is “60k” really going to break a deal?
Finishes are to be expected, location is ok I guess overall, my guess is that this sells for around 1 million even (with parking)
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$60k for a parking spot at this location?!
LMFAO! That’s what’s hilarious the bubble transformed idiots in nabes like this to think their space is really worth 2x+ more than a downtown, garaged parking space professionals use.
Maybe a DePaul student will buy that parking space for their 1998 Ford Focus. LMAO.
Oh it’s for two cars. Not as egregiously absurd but still funny. I hope they get a rush of interested buyers who only want one or zero spots with it. We know the owners aren’t going to be interested in being park spot landlords.
“Finishes are to be expected, location is ok I guess overall, my guess is that this sells for around 1 million even (with parking)”
I’m going with $825k and it sells 12 months from now. This place is not that special.
Guys, this place is pretty nice. About 200k over priced but it is not a joke.
They must have reverse engineered the asking price based on those taxes!
WTF???????
are you kidding me? with 3000sf on one floor and you end up with a (relative) narrow dining/living/kitchen combo thing!!!!
then your second and third bedrooms have one said small window
wuz the deal with the taxes? ouch
and then to top off a 1.2mil listing in the 1100 block of armitage you say 60k extra for parking. extra for parking?
the master deck and roof desk a sweet though
Groove is right. I’m lowering my prediction to $749k including parking.
“$749k including parking”
well, that’s a little steep even for 10 years of wear and tear and loss of the new condo smell.
I like your $825k prediction better.
that room with the columns is clearly a tasteful homage to the main hall of the field museum.
I like the columns and this place in general. So many bag holders, will ultimately be the banks problem, because of the impossible disconnect between sellers (previous purchase price) and buyer driven reality.
there are good things going for it, but this layout suffers…half the apartment is the master suite/terrace and the entry way/hallway around the elevator (not usable square footage).
so its a small 3000 SF. I’d go in expecting a LOT more out of a full floor space.
can’t see it going for more than $950K today.
The near 1 million price range is really tough to move for the foreseeable future.
Oh no. Another flat-screen TV mounted above a fireplace. How tasteless.
That roof deck view is amazing, though.
Usually I disagree with the postings on this site and think people are being too harsh but on this one I agree. Great outdoor space obviously but a combo living/dining/kitchen is very uninspiring to say the least for a $1MM plus condo. $850k, possibly $900k seems more realistic in this market.
At this price point to add $60k for parking is a joke. Why don’t they throw in three months of assessments for the million dollar buyer too? HA!
“Why don’t they throw in three months of assessments for the million dollar buyer too? HA!”
And a Smart Car!!
I’m not really understanding how a 3,000 sq ft whole floor unit only has this much living space.
“I’m not really understanding how a 3,000 sq ft whole floor unit only has this much living space.”
its the columns man the columns!!!
Fun for playing hide and seek in I guess!
Right across the street from Shoe’s Pub. I bet the current owner is a regular there.
“I’m not really understanding how a 3,000 sq ft whole floor unit only has this much living space.”
Same way it always does, by counting the outdoor space?
It’s hard to tell with this place, b/c the roof has a couple of levels, but my best estimate for the footprint of the top floor condo (not deducting for elevator or stairs) is about 2600 sf.
Has the Goddard School opened up yet (1127 W Armitage)? This building may be less affected since it’s east of the school, but still, I can’t imagine it’s going to be very fun to have a traffic jam 2x per day in front of your building as the kiddos are dropped off and picked up. We took a tour of the school and my first thought was that the drop-off/pick-up situation is going to be a nightmare.
On the property, how does a $1.1MM listing not have crown molding throughout? I know you can add it for a reasonable amount, but it in my mind it hints the builder may have cut other corners.
agree on the 825. Nothing special about this place that i can see. They should really consider staging this, the current furnishings are very cheap looking.
Jason, why the bank’s problem? It looks like all the mortgages have been paid off.
I would expect that this is just about the only $1.2 million condo in Lincoln Park with no more than 3 bedrooms and not more than 3000 sqft of indoor space. I really don’t like the layout, did they put more than one unit together to make this?
In this market, I do not see a sale above $1 million.
The 2d floor unit with the for sale sign in Sabrina’s pic is 2W:
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/Undisclosed-address-60614/home/12715762
“1650” sf for $599k, including one parking space.
Or better yet a Bollywood dance scene. If you have seen one, you know rotating around some columns is essential to declaration of love.
“its the columns man the columns!!!
Fun for playing hide and seek in I guess!”
” Has the Goddard School opened up yet (1127 W Armitage)?”
Yes, opened for about 3 weeks now.
I’d love to be the one to rebuild the interior space here. This could be an absolutely wonderful penthouse, but it’s dull and bland as it is.
Fabulous space with awesome potential and two outdoor spaces, though.
I strongly disagree with the de rigeur practice of blasting every high end property citing, insignificant or even imaginary problems with the units. Higher end features are lost by most readers of CC…and that is not a criticism but just a fact.
The private elevator entrance is a great feature and is uber secure in the buildings that do offer them.
The gallery space off the entrance is not at all a waste of space but more of an excellent place to showcase nicer, one of a kind pieces / antiques, artwork/scultures and even greenery (which seems to be almost totally absent from most Chicago properties on the MLS. I am amazed how the employment of larger plants in decorative containers can totally transform any room and adds to a more cohesive design theme.
Seperate en suite bedrooms are always a fantastic idea. The baths seem to be very well designed/functional/fixtures and features.
Kitchen is upper grade, nicely appointed and seems to be laid out fine with some rearrangment possible for not that much $$..easy fix for a more defined and functional kitchen. I would enclose the space and add a door to make the seperation of rooms more apparent. That is a personal design influnce from NYC pre-war coops / condos where each of rooms are seperated, walled in and equipped with doors for greater privacy and a more formal use of each room.
In other words, you need to re-do a few items to ‘Manhattanize’ it and the asking price will be more acceptable by those seeking unique and high design oriented condos.
Seriously, a great place with great potential Just spend a minimum of $$$ for a few lower priced adjustments to define and upscale the rooms.
Westloopelo, I trust your vision and expertise but your comment in fact reiterates a lot of what we thought, the place needs to get pimped up (forgive my French). Potential may be realized but it has not yet. As for the entrance, to me it is hideous, it is not Pantheon after all.
westloopelo: good points. However, no amount of Manhattanizing will take this place out of its Brooklyn location (not that there’s anything wrong with Brooklyn).
I love the private elevator entrance and the outdoor space. I also like the building and location.
But I would definitely make it more resemble pre-war buildings with their separated spaces. If you really cook, you want a closed kitchen, because who wants to look at a stack of dirty pots and pans while eating dinner?
I’d love to gut this place and rebuild the entire interior. If I had the money to buy something like this, I’d get very excited about it.
can anyone tell what is opposite the elevator, looks like a rail between 2 columns. Is there an open staircase?
To echo Westloop’s comments yes it is well appointed and with some changes there can be a lot more soul here. I can’t tell from the pics but I hope that enclosing spaces wouldn’t make the kitchen feel too small…
“can anyone tell what is opposite the elevator, looks like a rail between 2 columns. Is there an open staircase? ”
Sure looks like it. Maybe down to a door into the common hallway on the 3d floor, for access to the common walk-up entrance?
anonny – this section of armitage is a great street if you have ever been down it on a nice summer day… wow its great. I know you’re an east of clark snob, but saying this location is like Brooklyn is ridiculously wrong
‘Higher end features are lost by most readers of CC…and that is not a criticism but just a fact.’
I couldn’t agree with you more WL, however I don’t believe it’s unique to CC, Chicago nor New York. Over the last decades the American buying public has lost sight of value, being it architectural, cultural, financial, name an institution.
In a sense, we’re getting actually what we deserve: why should a developer spend any thought or resource (neither of which he/she had by looking at the pictures) on proper scale, layout, or finishing when someone would buy it regardless… and did? Why even challenge yourself to open a book on David Adler for some classic architecture ideas, either by the seller or buyer? Which is worse, the dealer or the user?
Had the buying public shunned any seller who dared to install cheaply finished maple cabinets in an *expensive* house for example, developers would have retooled their quality focus and houses wouldn’t look/function like this, not at this price level anyway. Essentially, all drywall boxes with tv’s hanging over prefab builders fireboxes would have been restricted to the vast middle / low class cornfield developments where they belong, and would have never been seen in this price range.
It’s like the ‘curse’ of the lottery winners… give a trailer dweller enough money and they’ll buy white stretch limos and jewel incrusted Samurai swords found in the Robb Report until they’re broke again.
“It’s like the ‘curse’ of the lottery winners… give a trailer dweller enough money and they’ll buy white stretch limos and jewel incrusted Samurai swords found in the Robb Report until they’re broke again.”
Can’t be broke if you have a jewel-encrusted katana. Or Katana. That just oozes klass.
Still would look better on the drywall box hanging over a prefab builders firebox than a tv does.
This property’s asking is much lower than Brooklyn comps, so saying “it’s like Brooklyn” is a big compliment, IMO. Can’t get a Park Slope or Fort Greene 3 bed for that price. In Brooklyn Heights or Dumbo, can’t get a 2 bed for that price.
Of course, Chicago isn’t NYC, and so no one is expecting similar pricing.
I think it’s overpriced by at least 200k. Was really disappointed by the layout, and the parking price is a joke.