Remember the Pure2o teaser that went up in Uptown a couple weeks back? Well, a little digging uncovered a development profile on Castleroc Estates‘ Web page and a “confidential” memo outlining the project for investors.
The sources describe an 18-story tower at 4700 N Clarendon Ave with 162 luxury homes. Preliminary pricing starts in the $220s, with penthouses starting in the $650s.
Castleroc’s page also features a couple news stories on Pure2o, which has yet to begin sales in the U.S.
According to the Sunday Independent (PDF), the project has been on the market in the U.K. since at least October 2007 “so the Irish will have the pick of units.”
Hmmm…wonder if the Pure folks will go against the grain and have a broker’s open house on Monday, March 17, instead of the usual Tuesday?
Irish Buyers? Does that include Pirates? Or are they forbidden by the bylaws “article one: no residents shall fly jolly rogers or skull and cross bones from their balconies, article two: no galleons allowed in garage.
Well the Irish economy is heading down so the potential buyers may have less “potential”.
I’m more of a low rise living kinda guy.
I wouldn’t mind owning a four story building and living in it, but that would be it. I like stairs and I hate elevators. Got caught in one for hours at the County Building once.
Pure2o might not be coming on the market at a good time. Nice rendering, but I question if the market is right. Time will tell.
The world has evolved, even as to pirates, since these days.
Well when you hear African, Eastern European, and Asian languages on the streets of Dublin then the world is clearly different.
Anyway with President O’Bama soon to take residence in the not quite as White House things are looking up for those with Irish ancestry.
I’ve only been to Dublin once, and no one was sober enough for me to know what language they were speaking.
Well if it was the not too distant past they were probably speaking English. Hard to tell sometimes, particularly if you were drunk yourself. I have an uncle who’s been here over 40 years and he is difficult to understand. Maybe if he makes 80 years here I will have less difficulty.
More recently Ireland has had a surge of foreign immigration. From what I’ve been told the Eastern Europeans are the only group who can keep up with the native Irish in alcohol consumption.
I was there for 28 hours in November 05. Left Chicago Friday night, spent Saturday walking around Dublin, returned home Sunday afternoon. Scored a less than $300 round-trip all-in fare on American Airlines with free upgrades to business class because I used to fly too much.
Check out some of my Dublin pics and you’ll see hardly anyone who doesn’t appear to be Irish. What struck me most about Dublin was the massive preponderance of young people. That and the 10 year old boys running in packs and cadging beers at Guinness.
Interesting and sad story from the New York Times.
NYT on Immigration in Ireland
My wife and I traveled there a few years ago, but spent most of our time in the Burren and Cork areas – we thought the Temple Bar area in Dublin was a real drunken orgy at most times of the day. St. Patrick’s is a daily event around those parts….
ip, thanks for the article. I thought it was going to be about the returning illegal immigrants to the states who get a shock going back that the big house from their savings in dollars and low-wage job would be there for them like they were historically, only to find people like the Dimbo’s doing them.