Former Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine, who played for the team for parts of eight seasons, on Tuesday placed his 4,500-square-foot condominium on the 28th floor of the building at 9 W. Walton Street on the market for $6.9 million.
The 6-foot-5-inch LaVine, 30, played for UCLA before being drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Bulls traded for LaVine in 2017 in a deal that sent Jimmy Butler to the Timberwolves. The Bulls traded LaVine to the Sacramento Kings in February.
Through an opaque land trust, LaVine paid $6.9 million in September 2022 to buy his three-bedroom, 28th-floor unit from former Chicago Bears star linebacker Khalil Mack.
Now, LaVine has listed the condo, which is a half-floor home that also has a 750-square-foot wraparound terrace with a hot tub and overhead heaters. Features include 3-1/2 bathrooms and a living room with custom millwork, O’Brien Harris shelving and a 60-foot linear ventless fireplace framed in Iceland book matched porcelain. The condo’s kitchen has a 60-inch Wolf range, two full-size ovens, a steam oven, a warming drawer, a built-in Wolf coffeemaker, two full-size Gaggenau refrigerators, two Miele dishwashers and a 14-foot waterfall island made from Azul Imperial Quartzite.
Other features in the unit include heated stone hallways with inlaid runners, heated bathroom floors throughout and a primary bedroom suite with a sitting room, a built-in bar, a Sub-Zero beverage refrigerator and a primary bathroom with princess white quartzite counters, a towel-warming drawer, custom cabinetry, a dual shower with a TV and a rain shower, and a custom bathtub with a pop-up TV lift and a built-in champagne bucket.
Listing agent Nancy Tassone declined to comment.
The unit had a $129,361 property tax bill in the 2023 tax year. It also receives a $4,937-a-month bill for homeowners association dues, which is $59,244 a year in building assessments.
In addition to LaVine and, before him, Mack, other Chicago athletes who have owned in the building at 9 W. Walton have included former Chicago Blackhawks star Jonathan Toews, who sold a 29th-floor unit in 2019 for $6.95 million just one year after buying it; his teammate, former Blackhawks star Patrick Kane, who bought a 25th-floor unit in 2019 for $6.46 million; and former Chicago Cubs star Jason Heyward, who sold a 19th-floor unit in 2020 for $7.2 million. And other big names who have owned units in the building include billionaire Ken Griffin, who famously paid $58.75 million in 2017 for 9 W. Walton’s top four floors, and Gov. JB Pritzker, who late last year bought the top two floors from Griffin for $19 million.
Goldsborough is a freelance reporter.