WMAQ-Ch. 5 reporter Charlie Wojciechowski and his wife, Kate, earlier this month sold their two-bedroom, 1,691-square-foot condo unit on the 33rd floor of a Streeterville high-rise for $995,000 and paid $665,000 for a 1,290-square-foot unit on the floor above them.
A Chicago-area native, Wojciechowski has been with NBC 5 since 1991. He and his wife paid $954,000 in December 2008 for the 33rd-floor unit, which at that time was newly built.
Now, the Wojciechowskis have moved one floor upstairs. Neither condo unit was publicly listed, so both deals were arranged privately, Wojciechowski said.
“We weren’t even thinking about selling, but (real estate agent) Stephanie (Maloney) had some clients interested in the unit, and we were on vacation at the time, and she was like, ‘Can I show (them your) unit,’ and we thought, ‘Why not,’” said Wojciechowski, who returned to the office this week after a week off to manage the move. “So she sold it, and we had to scramble to find something.”
The smaller, 34th-floor unit that the Wojciechowskis wound up buying was one that had been owned by some friends of theirs, he said.
“It was a lot of energy (to move), but it’s worth it. We like our new place,” he said. “We still have yet to unbox everything. The unit above us is a little bit smaller, but it better suits ourselves. It’s nothing terribly exciting.”
The Wojciechowskis’ experience is not unique in that building. In October 2017, actress Taraji P. Henson bought a more expensive, $1.925 million unit on the 36th floor of the building and then in May sold her previous, three-bedroom, 2,159-square-foot condo on the 38th floor for $1.429 million.
Bob Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.
