Former Chicago Cubs pitcher Jason Hammel, who has been retired from Major League Baseball since 2019, and his spouse, Elissa, on Feb. 16 bought an unfinished, six-bedroom, 6,000-square-foot mansion in Glencoe for $3.68 million.
Hammel, 40, pitched for the Cubs in two completely different stints between 2014 and 2016 as a part of a 15-year main league profession.
Situated on a 0.65-acre lot — unusually massive for Glencoe — the home on Wentworth Avenue that the Hammels have been constructing was listed in November and bought for its exact asking worth. The Hammels, who individually owned a five-bedroom, 5,350-square-foot brick and limestone home in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood from 2015 till promoting it in late 2021 for $2.55 million, paid $1.1 million in 2019 for the Glencoe property.
“We basically decided for the time being that (this) was a project that we were no longer passionate about, and we were kind of keeping our options open and based on kid stuff and family stuff, that we weren’t going to be at that address,” Elissa Hammel advised Elite Street concerning the unfinished Glencoe home.
Right after the couple bought their Lakeview home in December 2021, Elissa Hammel advised Elite Street that the couple deliberate to maneuver to the northeastern U.S. to be nearer to her household.
“That’s kind of the (same) sentiment (now),” she mentioned after the sale of the Glencoe mansion. “With the baseball lifestyle, I don’t think it’s even possible for us to stay in one place. We’re keeping all of our options open and not making any decisions. We’re taking it all day by day.”
Elissa Hammel mentioned the Glencoe home stays unfinished, so the couple by no means moved in, and it stays removed from move-in prepared. The plan is for it to measure 9,300 sq. toes together with the basement, with 5 full bogs, three half baths, a golf simulator room, a media room, an train room, a sauna and a kitchen with top-of-the-line home equipment. Other options embody excessive ceilings, a walk-in pantry, a household room with a fire, a butler’s pantry, a paneled library with a bay window, a main bed room suite with walk-in closets, a second-floor household room, and a decrease degree with a media room, a rec room, a bar and a sport court docket.
Public data present that the consumers are a pair from Glencoe.
Goldsborough is a contract reporter.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com
