(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.

April 9, 2014 – 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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