Optima Signature, a 57-story, 490-unit luxury apartment tower with prime retail space located just east of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, today announced it has signed a lease with Egg Harbor Café, a restaurant specializing in breakfast, brunch and lunch with 20 locations in Illinois, Wisconsin and Georgia. Expected to open in fall 2019, it will be the first downtown Chicago location for the brand.
Developed by Glencoe, Ill.-based Optima, Inc. a full-service real estate firm with projects in Illinois and Arizona, Optima Signature is located at 220 E. Illinois St. and features 490 apartments and 60,000 square feet of retail and professional space. Egg Harbor Café’s new 4,905-square-foot location will front the building’s plaza on upper Illinois Street, steps from Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River.
Egg Harbor Café is the latest retailer to lease space at Optima Signature. Existing businesses include GoodVets Streeterville, a full-service veterinarian that operates a 2,000-square-foot facility in the building; Guidepost Montessori at Magnificent Mile, a California-based school with an 11,500-square-foot space; and RUNAWAY fitness, a 4,099-square-foot run conditioning fitness studio. In addition, Bedazzled Nails & Spa will open a 1,530-square-foot salon later this spring. With these leases, Optima Signature will have only one 490-square-foot retail space remaining.
“Retailers have selected Optima Signature for many of the same reasons our residents have – its prime location off Michigan Avenue and modern design aesthetic in the heart of Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood,” said Tara Hovey, president and COO of Optima, Inc. “With Egg Harbor Café, we’re continuing to curate businesses that enhance the building’s distinctive mixed-use community and help it serve as a destination to live, work and play. More residents than ever have made Streeterville home in recent years, and a popular breakfast and lunch restaurant perfectly complements the other neighborhood restaurant offerings serving our Optima Signature residents as well as the community as a whole.”
Patrons of Egg Harbor Café will have a clear view of the building’s plaza, which features a David Hovey Sr.-designed bright yellow, 15-foot Kiwi sculpture composed of half-inch steel plates.
“For our first downtown Chicago location, Egg Harbor Café wanted our guests to experience an urban oasis, and Optima Signature offers us the opportunity to provide just that,” said Graham Hallen, vice president of facility management, purchasing and commissary operations for Egg Harbor Café. “Set alongside a beautiful open plaza with sweeping views of iconic Chicago landmarks, our Optima Signature location will be a refreshing haven, welcoming Streeterville residents and local office workers as well as visitors to the city.”
Designed by award-winning architect David Hovey Sr., FAIA, and completed in 2017, Optima Signature is a LEED-certified luxury rental development featuring 1.5 acres of amenity space. Optima Signature’s amenities include: resort-style outdoor heated swimming pools with cabanas and bars; saunas, steam rooms and a WELLBEATS™ virtual workout studio; resident lounge with coffee bar; basketball, squash and bocce ball courts; golf simulator and putting green; and outdoor terrace with lounge furnishings, fire pits and spas. Another amenity floor has a fitness center with cardio and strength-training equipment, yoga studio, indoor lap pool, whirlpool spa and children’s play area. Additional outdoor amenities include a 40-yard running track, dog park, children’s play area, co-ed sauna and steam rooms, two full kitchens, grilling stations and dining areas.
Optima is currently leasing furnished office suites, located on the Grand Mezzanine and seventh floors, that range in size from 200 square feet to 720 square feet. Available to both residents and non-residents, the suites house one to five workstations and have the ability to expand to accommodate 10 people. Furnishings include desks, lighting, cabinetry, a refrigerator and shelving as well as free Wi-Fi. An additional 13,000 square feet of professional office space is available on Optima Signature’s Plaza Mezzanine level.
For more information about Optima Signature’s commercial space, visit optimasignature.com/business-suites.
About Optima, Inc.:
Optima, Inc. is a privately-held, design-driven real estate development firm with offices in Illinois and Arizona. For more than 40 years, Optima has been developing, designing, building and managing striking urban and suburban luxury residential communities. From the beginning, Optima aimed to reinvent housing by integrating the functions involved in new construction within one company. Optima controls and executes every aspect of the process in-house – development, design, construction, sales and management – for a dynamic system that offers greater focus and fluidity. Optima is committed to delivering extraordinary living through design, innovation, sustainability and management.
Optima Signature, a 57-story mixed-use tower just east of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, has signed a lease with Egg Harbor Café, a restaurant specializing in breakfast, brunch and lunch with 20 locations in Illinois, Wisconsin and Georgia.