We Love Modern: 1616 W. Huron in the Ukranian Village
This 4-bedroom new construction house at 1616 W. Huron in the Ukranian Village was built for lovers of modern architecture.
According to the listing it has “fluid integration of ionized aluminium, modular masonry and glass” as well as a Zebrawood flat panel.
The kitchen has all the upscale bells and whistles including Sub-Zero and Meile appliances.
There’s also 2 wood burning fireplaces, 2 wet bars and 1 theater room.
The listing says it’s part of the “huron collection”- apparently a “mass architect designed” collection of million dollar homes.
Karen Biazer at North Clybourn Group Inc. has the listing. See the pictures here.
1616 W. Huron: 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 4300 square feet, 2 car parking
- Originally listed in June 2009 for $1.139 million
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $1.079 million
- Taxes are “new”
Not bad, considering it comes with the furniture. I don’t like the hood though, would be a cool place to live if I was retired or something.
love it!
Sweet house…but not a fan of the area.
I like UK Village but this exact location is pretty much crap b/c you’re just a couple houses in from Ashland. I also wonder if they’ve finished building out the rest of the empty lots you can see on Google streetview, or if you’d be living next to construction sites off and on for a couple years.
“I also wonder if they’ve finished building out the rest of the empty lots you can see on Google streetview”
Pretty sure those empty lots you see on streetview are now houses that look nearly identical to this one
There are a lot of these $1MM+ houses on the market in the area – I hope that pushes the prices down. I like the finishes on this one. Once prices go down a bit, I’ll consider living in a giant house in a sub-optimal area.
This isn’t in Ukranian Village. Ukranian Village has an E boundary of Damen. This is East Village.
I was born in Chicago, and I’ve lived in Rogers Park, Lakeview, Humboldt Park, the Gold Coast (Bellevue Street), and the South Loop. I now live in this neighborhood, and I adore it.
A lot of the housing stock, especially east of Damen and west of Ashland, is beautiful and unique; the streets have huge old trees; it feels like a neighborhood, moreso than, say, RV or South Loop. It’s more affordable than LV, LP or (obviously) Gold Coast (and more diverse). It doesn’t have that outpost vibe of Humboldt. You can get downtown literally in minutes, unlike, say, Lincoln Square or RP, or onto the Eisenhower (down Ashland) or 90/94 (Division).
Average age around here is 20s.
Don’t pass this neighborhood by, especially if you’re a city person and like something different.
After looking through the Virtual Tour, the finishes have been very nicely done. I especially like the aluminum storefront type windows. Two roof decks plus a potential HUGE third one, the penthouse rec room, etc.
The neighborhood is not LP/LV but it’s a brand new high-end SFR for $1MM, and it is VERY convenient for pretty much anything.
I’d seriously consider this place if it was a couple hundo cheaper. Unfortunately for me, I think the current ask is pretty fair.
PC is right on the $. Papu lives in River North and does his chilling around East Village and Ukranian Village because the people are cooler.
Not sure about the investment, but the area is far from rubish.
love this place.
The price per square foot seems reasonable for the finish level of the home. Much better than some 750,000 townhome in LP with outdated suburban finishes. There are a glut of homes at this price level though, but I am not sure how many are as new or large as this one.
Nice home throughout. Here’s what used to be here circa 2000:
http://198.173.15.21/AssessorPics/GeoSpan/17071110040000.jpg
(Classic picture btw).
Agreed there are too many homes at this price point. It may still be a million dollar home but made for the bubble era.
Actually, upon closer look, that picture is not for the property in question. Heed Sabrina’s warnings, Redfin’s PINs are often incorrect. The picture was for 2151 W Huron.
http://www.cookcountyassessor.com/data/searchflat/ParcelImage.asp?pin=17071110040000
Still it’s a pretty good pic.
From the vacant auto dealerships and random people walking to and from Duks (love it – but its a shady character hang out), this is the one block of Ashland between North and Lake that seriously needs a clean up. I live in the Area (late 20s), not much to walk to around here.
Another one a house over to it at 1.2m:
http://www.redfin.com/search#lat=41.893820035798726&long=-87.67072677612305&market=chicago®ion_id=35021®ion_type=1&sold_within_months=3&status=1&uipt=1&v=5&zoomLevel=17
And then there’s another one in between the two, however not for sale. Location is a bit of a gamble, although I like the overall area…
This is modern done right though. Good stuff.
1703 West Huron appears to be the same builder and is nicely done as well.
I’d like to know who the builder is for these properties. There are so many bad examples of modern SFR architecture in Chicago. I really like this guy’s work.
http://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1703-W-Huron-St-60622/home/17359073
This is the architect:
http://www.massarchitect.com/1612_huron.html
I guess the money wasn’t quite there to build 3 different designs…
Walk down Chicago east of Ashland, and west of Wood and you will find new stores and restaurants. It is not that unsafe of an area. 10-15 years ago, maybe.
Agreed about safety. This is a great area for young people, but don’t think there’s much of a discount anymore vs. more desirable parts of “West Town” anyway.
And there remains a significant difference between west, and east, of Ashland (south of Chicago), to me, anyway. Do prices reflect this?
Actually I just spoke to the realtor and all three properties are three different builders. (!)
VERY nice and well done house! LOVE IT!
I have the exact same cabinets in my NY kitchen and I can attest to the fact that they are not cheap…just like the rest of the finishes in the place.
Cheers for finally featuring such an outstanding and modern home!
what I don’t understand is how all these 20 somethings can afford the numerous million dollar homes in the west town, uk village area. Maybe it’s just me but it seems the developers grossly misjudged the number of rich and independently wealthy 20’s something willing to buy a million dollar home in west town.
From city-data.com for 60622:
Estimated median house or condo value in 2007: $530,868 (it was $267,100 in 2000)
Estimated median household income in 2007: $45,342
Does seem to be a disconnect somewhere.
I know 60622 is a large area but it is fun to go through the stats.
http://www.city-data.com/zips/60622.html
medians are silly to use as a metric since 50% of the people in the city rent and are usually are in the bottom 50% of income as well. If you could gather the 75th percentile of income, that would be closer to the “median” of homeowner’s incomes.
“homedelete on August 7th, 2009 at 10:52 am
what I don’t understand is how all these 20 somethings can afford the numerous million dollar homes in the west town, uk village area. Maybe it’s just me but it seems the developers grossly misjudged the number of rich and independently wealthy 20’s something willing to buy a million dollar home in west town.”
The twenty-somethings live in the condos in the area, not the SFRs.
“what I don’t understand is how all these 20 somethings can afford the numerous million dollar homes in the west town, uk village area.”
Simple answer: they cannot.
Go to redfin, set search to SFH 950k+, enable sales record for 6 months. Relative to inventory nothing is selling (make sure you look too at the wicker park and bucktown area).
This area has been absolutely swamped with mansions over the last couple years. Same great deals will be found here in the near future…
Maybe the wealthy foreign investors will snap these up.
area is great, not sure what people are talking about being a bad area. First Bucktown, now East Village. Tons of million dollar homes on the street between grand and Chicago, between Ashland and Western. I’m sure there will be some deals to be had in the future, but not for much less than this.
There are currently 12 $1,000,000+ detached single-family listings in the area bounded by Grand, Chicago, Ashland and Western. One $1M+ house has closed in the past 6 months.
There are currently 56 $1M+ det single-family listings in West Town. Eights $1M+ houses have closed in the past 6 months.
The deals are just starting.
Anyone go to the Open House for this one on Sunday?
I drove by late in the day. There is an empty lot on the corner of Huron and Ashland, and then the group of three buildings. The subject property is the third one in – most desirable location of the three, but the least appealing elevation, IMHO.
Sold for $885K. Thoughts on whether this was a deal? Curious because I am looking at a place in this area.
The deals will be even better here in the future.
really nice new construction house for 885k, I don’t like the neighborhood very much but i’d say thats a deal
“Thoughts on whether this was a deal? Curious because I am looking at a place in this area.”
In my most conservative, think like HD moments, I worry about whether some areas will significantly backslide over say 20-30 years. Based on my admittedly limited knowledge of this area (I do know there are many fancy homes around here), that would be a concern I would try to work through if I were buying around here. I don’t see it as an area that will have a lot of appeal to families with kids in the foreseeable future given school issues. Not fatal by any means, but it would be a concern of mine even if I didn’t personally have school needs.