With the first phase of Fletcher Row nearing completion, Bluestone Development has opened two of its new townhouses at 2424 W Fletcher St as fully furnished model units.
Eight of Fletcher Row’s first 10 townhouses are available and ready for occupancy within 90 days. The three- and four-bedroom / three- and 3.5-bathroom residences are priced from the $650s to the $900s.
When completed, Fletcher Row will comprise 20 townhouses.
Bluestone has touted its development’s “environmentally friendly” features over the past year and a half. Buyers can opt for rooftop solar panels that will provide supplemental electricity to common area lighting, a feature that the company says could reduce energy bills by as much as $1,000 annually. Whether that discount pays for those panels in a reasonable amount of time remains to be seen – I hope to find out more about the price of this upgrade soon.
In “Hamlin Park”?
You guys never rest, do you? Hamlin Park is 1/2 mile away, and not really a neighborhood anyway, considering people claim various edges of the park as Lincoln Park, Lake View, West Lakeview, Roscoe Village and North Center.
That said, these look pretty nice, if a bit expensive. I like the location, but are people going to pay these prices with the quasi-expressway feeling of the raised Western Ave bridge right there?
Carter:
By our definitions, Hamlin Park consists of everything inside Diversey, Belmont, Ravenswood and the river. I’d much rather use that definition than the ridiculous “West Roscoe Village” tag that Bluestone and other developers apply to locations like this.
The Hamlin Park Neighbors group has banners all over this area. We’re not making it up.
Banners schmanners, I know the Hamlin Park Neighbors, but a neighbor group does not a neighborhood make (there is some sort of weird Armitage Commerical District banner on Belmont just east of California, for example – does the banner trump common sense?).
the HPN got a lot more aggressive in promoting themselves as Matlak never used to give the group the time of day on zoning issues, so I don’t blame them for putting their name out more.
this is North Center as I see it, although I’d say West Lakeview has really been the more popular name of that area you quoted if we’re going the route of common perception.
but of course, as this is west of Western that would be problematic, nobody is gonna buy 24xx W. anything is in West Lakeview, I suppose. but I’m not a rigid guy & I’d imagine this area is industrial enough nobody has ever quite cared much what the name is.
I’ll make you a deal, if you can find even three of those single-family home owners who – without prompting or cues! – would say they live in Hamlin Park, I’ll concede the point, fair enough?
kidding aside, I do an issue in using a park that far away as a selling point for these homes, that strikes me as a bit dishonest. what do people in your biz consider Lane Tech in?
Actually, if you REALLY wanted to put some classic Chicago cachet on that address, you should make some allusion to the late,great Riverview amusement park that existed near here until the late 1960’s.
I’d be in favor of that if we could get the amusement park back!
Carter,
Our biz is advertising and publishing – not real estate. I think we’ve made it quite cleaer over time that we don’t automatically accept real estate folks’ neighborhood descriptors.
Technically the area is North Center. West Lakeview is too much of a stretch. We may be misguided about Hamlin Par bit I don’t think it’s fair to say we’re being dishonest about it.
North Center might technically be where these places are located, but anyone who knows the area will likely lump these in with all the other new townhomes and condos going up on Belmont slightly further west–in Avondale. West of Western is still west of Western, whether you’re east of the river or not. Besides, the school district dividing line is Western and not the river, so that puts the kiddies of these people at Linne, the elementary school on Sacramento, not Audubon, as I’ll bet the developers want people to believe by calling it “Hamlin Park.” Puh-lease.
But hey, they do look nice, and solar panels are a nice touch.
I’m not in the biz, and dishonest may be a stretch.
But speaking as a home buyer, I will say it is a turnoff when you go to an address you aren’t familiar with & it bears little semblance to what it was advertised as. I know this intersection/area extremely well, and the “green and leafy” image of Hamlin Park just doesn’t work, it’s too far.
Personally, this location’s proximity to the river access point on Belmont is both more realistic and more of a plus, that’s a nice path & wooded area running along the river between Belmont & Addison, and you’ve got a park (no idea what the name is) right there just east of the river, north of the canoe launch.
Riverview may no longer mean much, but that is one of the few bona-fide places where you can say the river can be actively used (barring buying riverfront property), it’s a very attractive spot IMO, I actually looked at some homes right there, just wasn’t the right place at the right time.
That park Carter is called Clark Park (or at least that is what everyone at Lane Tech calls it). I know Lane Tech is trying to aquire the land in that area to make practice fields. Even though many of their teams practice their, Lane Tech doesn’t technically own it.
Lane Tech is in North Center, and within North Center, Roscoe Village, but right at its western border.
Bringing up the name Riverview, it would be interesting to see how the development Riverview Station on Elston in Avondale came about with their name seeing as it isn’t right by the Riverview area. If anything, if developers want to come up with a name for the eastern part of Avondale known to them as “West Roscoe Village” I think the name Riverview would be more logical, seeing as it is bordered by the river. Avondale has absolutely nothing in common with Roscoe Village, so I am still trying to figure out where “West Roscoe Village” comes from.
I agree 100% on Riverview, besides the history, hell, you can view the river from the area, it’s a no-brainer.