Your Hot Tub on Game Day Still Awaits: 1131 W. Addison in Lakeview
We last chattered about this 3-bedroom penthouse condo at 1131 W. Addison right across from Wrigley Field just two months ago.
See our March 2010 chatter and pictures here.
Back then, there was still snow on the mind.
But now that baseball season is in full swing, it’s not too late to enjoy your private rooftop terrace complete with a 6 person hot tub, electric and cable.
The duplex has 11 foot ceilings and hardwood floors.
The kitchen has granite counter tops and viking stainless steel appliances. There is stone in the master bathroom.
It has also been reduced by $19,001 since March.
Nancy Gaspadarek and Catherine Brennan at Sudler Sotheby’s still have the listing. See the virtual tour pictures here.
Unit #3: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, 1 car parking, 1500 square feet
- Sold in June 2007 for $552,000
- Originally listed in October 2009 for $629,900
- Withdrawn
- Was listed in March 2010 for $609,000
- Reduced
- Currently listed for $589,999
- Assessments of $176 a month
- Taxes of $7605
- Central Air
- Washer/Dryer in the unit
- Bedroom #1: 12×12
- Bedroom #2: 10×9
- Bedroom #3: 20×11
I covet this place! Even though:
1) I cannot afford it (not saying it’s overpriced, it’s just beyond my budget),
2) With an 18-month old child, this place is probably not ideal for family living (given proximity to ballpark/Wrigleyville noise),
3) Having a husband & aforementioned child renders quite useless the benefit of being walking distance to many singles bars
However, were I to afford this, it would become my perfect urban summertime party pad! Love that roofdeck. I WANT!!
Ok now I agree there are not enough mid 20s idiots running around with enough cash to purchase this one. The cubs game / cubby bear / bring her home to shag in my hot tub fantasy is one hold until the next boom cycle. By then all the Gen Y’s will be over it.
Seriously though, I have heard and believe roof decks with hot tubs are disasters waiting to happen. My understanding is that Wooden 2 x 10 joists are not strong enough. Apparently you need steel beam support and I can guess this was not built to that spec.
But until the day the roof sags, it could be a lot of fun.
jmm-
if you lay off the shaggin’, then maybe the roof won’t be saggin’.
🙂
i emailed this link to my friends, they all agreed it would have been quite the bachelorette pad back in the day…
I still stand by my original comment. Being able to see the outside of Wrigley Field is worth absolutely nothing.
When you get an easterly wind I’m sure you can smell the piss and beer eminating from that dump too
“I still stand by my original comment. Being able to see the outside of Wrigley Field is worth absolutely nothing.”
…to you.
there’s no accounting for taste. I’d take a view of Wrigley over the view I get of a few shirtless overweight neighbors who hang out and drink in the alley (the “pretending they’re working on a car” kind of crowd). But they keep crime down, so even that isn’t so bad.
and look at these views:
http://www.last.fm/music/Tortoise/_/Gigantes
to me, boring. been there, done that. but to newcomers (relative), it’s hip and urban.
I wonder if any neighboring properties have views of the rooftop 6-person hot tub.
“I wonder if any neighboring properties have views of the rooftop 6-person hot tub.”
anecdotally, I can assure you that kids growing up in the high-rises along Sheridan get telescopes as soon as they can. To uh, see the stars, yeah, that’s the ticket…
Lots of grown-ups in LSD high-rises have telescopes, too. I’ve peered through a few. Amazing the theater you can watch for free, what with all the tower dwellers who never draw their drapes at night.
And all the more I have to say about it, is if you live on the twentieth floor and carry on your private life in front of a forty-foot span of curtain wall with the lights on, you should make sure your body is in really great shape.
this is a beautiful unit, and i usually love lakeview, but this unit is just too close to wrigley…if it was a bit more south i’d be into it….i love the stretch of lakeview around surf/broadway..
I think this property has the potential for outsized appreciation when the Cubs start to become the powerhouse team in the NL Central. Bwhahaha.
I guess the Rickett family was not into this condo as the realtor had suggested in the earlier post. Maybe is was just too expensive. Perhaps now that they reduced the price one of them can afford it.
I still think that it is a great place in a fun location. There is no doubt that the buyer who does purchase it will truly enjoy the place.
I’d be calling all those Hawks players that are about to get their Stanley Cup bonus…
“I’d be calling all those Hawks players that are about to get their Stanley Cup bonus.”
Some of the hawks players live in Trump Tower. Being all the way north by Wrigley Field is not conducive to a quick commute.
JMM wrote:
“Seriously though, I have heard and believe roof decks with hot tubs are disasters waiting to happen. My understanding is that Wooden 2 x 10 joists are not strong enough. Apparently you need steel beam support and I can guess this was not built to that spec.”
I live a block south of the property and can see it from my third floor window. I am quite worried about roof decks in general on under supported roofs. I just noticed two new roof decks on the condo units across the street from me. It is an old Bethlehem steel punching factory converted to townhomes/condos. I doubt the roof was designed to carry the additional load of wood and people. I can only hope the architect took this into consideration – if they even have an architect. I can see one hot summer night, when a large party on one of the decks collapses. I pray I’m wrong.
I think the Jersey Shore TV people could move here and do a season.