01 Feb behind the scenes: urban remains at work removing lakes shore athletic club artifacts for future use.

February 1, 2014 in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements by

urban remains spent a good portion of 2009 carefully extracting artifacts from the jarvis hunt-designed lake shore drive athletic club for future use and/or reintegration into the building once it was converted to apartments. that time has come. see below, in article and images. 

Once threatened with demolition, the 19-story building from 1927 will now have units ranging from $1,900 to $12,000.

BY DENNIS RODKIN 898030_300z

The grand old Lake Shore Athletic Club, which has sat empty for nine years and was threatened with demolition during the building-boom years, is getting back in the game this month as a luxury apartment building. A handful of tenants have moved in, and @Properties leasing agent Kathleen Ullo says tenants who sign leases by February 1—that’s two days from now—will get one month of free rent.

The elegant 19-story lakefront building designed byJarvis Hunt dates to 1927, during the heyday of private clubs. It became part of Northwestern University in 1977, but the school closed it in 2005. A skirmish over preserving it or replacing it ensued, and in 2008, the firm Integrated Development Group announced plans to fill it with high-end senior housing. After a setback in the downtown senior housing market, the developer in 2012 shifted the plan to luxury apartments, which is a hotly competitive field right now.

“We appeal to people who want that stately, elegant living,” Ullo says. “There are a lot of towers with 500 apartments and floor-to-ceiling windows, but somebody who wants an apartment in a building with character and history will come to us.”

Monthly rents range from $1,900 for a studio to $12,000 for a two-story apartment with three bedrooms. Click through the photos below to learn more about the building.

 



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