One Hawthorne Sales Center Now Open!

I'll admit that I may be jumping the gun a bit, but its exciting for a real estate geek like myself to lay hands on the 24 different floor plans available at the newly opened One Hawthorne sales center. That's pretty much all you can do at this point, anyway. The building won't be ready for hard hat tours for another three weeks and brochures, virtual reality tours and all the usual sales center accessories have yet to arrive.

What you will find are a delightful sales team, some of whom you will recognize from The Infinity a few blocks east. Since walking through a home is the best way to judge its merits, we will have to make do with what the team is sharing right now about the 165 condominiums. The 24 different layouts range from junior 1-bedrooms through 3-bedroom penthouses and I was pleasantly surprised by the large-ish, well-designed units offering plenty of closets and windows.

Pricing has not been established so we can't judge the relative value, but a few things to keep in mind are that parking is available with about 75% of the homes and that it is valet only. The first phase to hit the market in February will be on the 2nd though 8th floors only of the 25 story tower. A strategy surely meant to determine value on the upper floors but more likely to stymie buyers that want views and light.

This will be the last new tower Downtown for quite some time, so the One Hawthorne team is pretty much guaranteed a lot of traffic to the sales center. Whether or not that traffic results in raining deposit checks remains to be seen but it looks promising.

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