Pre-leasing starts at 111 Wacker

(Left) Most of the glass curtainwall is in place at 111 West Wacker, seen here on April 5. (Click on image to view larger version.) Just a few floors toward the bottom still need covered. The riverfront rental property will include some retail space.

9-Apr-14 – It only took nine years but the luxury apartment tower at Wacker Drive & Clark Street is so close to completion that the developer is starting to lease units.

Related Midwest announced on Wednesday that pre-leasing has opened at OneEleven, a 60-story building that will offer 504 apartments with rents starting at $1,600 per month. There will be six model apartments. The first tenants will move into the building in July.

In 2011, Related Midwest acquired the site, the ruins of a failed project to build a 90-story condominium and hotel.

“OneEleven is a symbol of Chicago’s renaissance,” said Gary Handel, president of the building’s architectural firm, Handel Architects. “At this pivotal site, we strove to create a building that will take its rightful place among the exceptional buildings that line the Chicago River.”

(Above) Rendering of a kitchen at OneEleven that will have a polished quartz countertop and white marble backsplash.

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