Joe Zekas and I shot a video with Connie Abels at the adjacent beach on an overcast day a couple of weeks ago, but this photo from the veranda of The Breakers in Rogers Park tells a different story.
“Nobody knows about this. Nobody knows it exists,” Yvonne Carns from Re/Max NorthCoast Realty says of The Breakers. We shot our video from the neighboring public beach, but residents of The Breakers have access to one of only three private beaches in Rogers Park. The other two don’t have parking, and one of them doesn’t permit dogs, Carns says.
Bringing dogs isn’t the only thing that condo owners can do at The Breakers’ beach that would be forbidden at public beaches. They can also make bonfires, drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes – all without the supervision of a lifeguard. (Spring break!) Carns says that residents can even drag small sailboats onto the beach and keep them there.
When I posted our video, I mentioned that one of the remaining units was a three-bedroom / 4.5-bath duplex listed at $1.29 million. The other one is a three-bedroom / two-bath condo listed at $725,000. It’s on the first floor and faces the lake. The Web site says the unit has radiant hydronic floor heating, which isn’t something that I’ve seen in too many condo conversions. A floor plan for unit 1-O is below:
