K2 Apartments, 365 N Halsted St, Chicago: Pricing, Fees, and What the Listings Don’t Tell You

Pricing by Floor Plan

Twenty-five-plus individual floor plans span the building’s 33 stories and 496 units, built in 2013, according to Apartments.com’s K2 listing. Unit-level listings, not just the range headline, are what separates a real price picture from a marketing range.

Studios

The cheapest currently available unit is #1113, 481 square feet, available April 28, at $2,083. Larger studio layouts run up to roughly $2,900 for a 622-square-foot unit. Several studio floor plans, including furnished units, show no price at all and require a call to the leasing office, a gap covered in the next section.

One-Bedrooms

One-bedroom units range from about $2,661 for a 644-square-foot layout to $3,491 for an 847-square-foot unit. Square footage and floor height both move the price within a single floor plan by several hundred dollars.

Two- and Three-Bedrooms and Penthouses

Two-bedroom units run $4,626 to $4,804; the one available three-bedroom unit lists at $6,162, and a three-bedroom penthouse lists at $5,145. Several penthouse layouts, all three-bedroom, show no published price.

The West Loop submarket average runs $2,222 for a studio and $2,822 for a one-bedroom against a citywide average of $1,639 and $2,032, so K2’s studio floor sits close to the neighborhood norm and above the city norm.

Is a “Call for Rent” listing hiding a higher price, or just a slower update? Neither reliably. Several penthouse and furnished-unit listings show no number at all on both marketplace pages, which usually means the unit isn’t actively marketed at a fixed rate rather than that the price is deliberately hidden. Treat any unpriced floor plan as requiring a direct call before ruling it in or out of budget.

The Real Move-In Cost

Base rent is not the number a renter needs to plan around. K2’s published fee schedule adds a one-time administrative charge and an application charge that neither marketplace listing totals for the reader.

A single applicant taking the $2,083 studio with no pet and no storage owes $2,648 at signing: rent plus the $500 administrative fee plus the $65 application fee. Add one dog and the total rises to $3,173. Neither marketplace listing publishes a security deposit line alongside the other fees; that absence is worth confirming directly with the leasing office rather than assuming a deposit doesn’t apply.

What’s the real first-month cost on the cheapest studio? $2,648 with no pet, $3,173 with one dog, both figures built from the published per-fee schedule rather than the base rent alone.

Amenities That Are Distinct, Not Just Listed

K2 holds LEED Silver certification, awarded on 58 of 58 possible points the building applied for, based partly on brownfield redevelopment and public-transit access. The 70-foot lap pool is a genuine rarity: fewer than 3% of Chicago apartment buildings offer pool access. A private footbridge connects the building directly to an adjacent Jewel-Osco grocery store.

Location: Walk and Transit Scores, Reconciled

Walk Score vs. Local Logic: Why the Numbers Differ

Walk Score’s site lists the address at 94 out of 100, a four-minute walk from the Blue Line at the Grand-Blue stop; the same figures, reproduced on Zillow’s listing, show a matching 94 Walk Score, 94 Transit Score, and 88 Bike Score. Apartments.com displays a different set: 100 Walkability and 100 Transit, sourced to a separate provider called Local Logic, plus two metrics Walk Score doesn’t publish at all, a 40 Drivability and a 70 Bikeability. The two providers use different algorithms and neither listing tells the reader that. For a renter, the practical range to plan around is a Walk Score in the low-to-mid 90s at minimum, with transit access at the top of either scale.

Grand Avenue Station on the Blue Line sits 0.3 mile from the building, a six-minute walk.

Is K2’s walk score 94 or 100? Both numbers are genuine; they come from two different scoring companies. Walk Score’s own figure is 94. Local Logic’s figure, shown only on one listing, is 100.

Noise and Traffic

Only one of the two marketplace listings surfaces a noise figure at all: a 63 out of 100 Soundscore from HowLoud, with traffic rated “Busy.” K2 sits just east of the Kennedy Expressway, and several older renter reviews describe thin walls and street noise as a trade-off against the skyline views. Anyone deciding between a river-facing and an expressway-facing unit should ask the leasing office directly which exposure a specific unit has before signing.

Lease Terms and Policies

The building’s own marketing and Apartments.com both state 12- to 13-month leases as the available term. Zillow’s listing for the same building lists nine separate term lengths, 8 through 16 months. That’s a direct conflict between two live marketplace listings for the same address, not a stale-data artifact on one side. A renter who needs a short-term lease should confirm term flexibility by phone rather than trust either published range. Pet policy is consistent across both listings: two pets maximum, $500 one-time plus $25 monthly for a dog, $250 one-time plus $25 monthly for a cat.

Is a 12-month lease the only option at K2? Not according to Zillow’s listing, which shows options from 8 to 16 months; Apartments.com and the property’s own site show only 12 to 13. Confirm directly, since this is an active conflict between two live sources.

Reputation: What the Rating Reflects

Apartments.com shows a 4.8-out-of-5 rating built from 161 renter reviews, but the review list on the fetched page renders empty. A rating with no visible individual reviews behind it is worth treating with real skepticism rather than repeating as settled.

What does K2’s 4.8-star rating reflect? A blended score, not 161 individually visible reviews; the review list itself rendered empty on the page as fetched.

How K2 Compares to Nearby Buildings

Union West’s total-price display is the outlier worth noting on its own: comparing K2’s base-rent figures against Union West’s total-price figures without adjusting for fees understates K2’s true cost gap.

Which nearby building costs less once fees are counted? Spoke’s $2,370 starting price is lower than K2’s $2,083 floor only after K2’s roughly $565 in one-time fees are added back in; Union West’s $2,744 already includes required fees, making it the more expensive option outright.

Who K2 Fits (and Who It Doesn’t)

Renters prioritizing pool access, transit proximity, and a green-building credential fit well here; the 70-foot lap pool and the low-to-mid-90s walk score are hard to match nearby. Renters who need a confirmed short-term lease should treat the 8-to-16-month range as unconfirmed until the leasing office verifies it. Renters sensitive to traffic noise should ask specifically about unit-facing direction, since the building’s Soundscore reflects an expressway-adjacent address that neither the property’s own site nor Zillow mentions at all.