The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules, and the collapse of the hard boundary between office and home have fundamentally altered what people need from the places they live. At Optima Signature, the work offer goes further than any other Optima community, because a 57-story tower above Streeterville, with 490 residences and 1.5 acres of amenity space, has the scale to do something no apartment building does: make the office genuinely optional.

Designed for Work, From the Inside Out

The foundation of Optima’s work-from-home offer begins in the residence itself. Every Optima floor plan is designed to accommodate a dedicated workspace, a desk, a corner, a room configured for separation between professional and personal life. That separation matters. The research is consistent: a defined work zone improves focus, reduces distraction, and makes it easier to close the day and return to the rest of life.

The architecture helps. Floor-to-ceiling glass fills every Optima residence with natural light throughout the working day, the kind of light that regulates sleep, sustains energy, and makes a desk in the corner of a living room feel less like a compromise and more like a considered choice.

At Optima Signature, that desk faces Lake Michigan. Or the Chicago River. Or the Streeterville skyline, depending on the floor and the orientation of the residence. From 57 stories above the city, the view from a home office here is unlike any other working environment in Chicago, and the floor-to-ceiling glass that delivers it also fills the residence with the particular quality of lake light that changes with every hour and every season.

When You Need to Step Outside the Apartment

Optima Signature offers something no other residential building in Chicago provides: fully furnished commercial business suites, available to both residents and non-residents, with internet, utilities, and cleaning included. Ranging from single-desk private offices to larger multi-workstation suites, they are professional working environments set within a luxury residential tower, the live-work-play model at its most complete. Suite holders have access to Optima Signature’s full amenity program: the fitness center, pools, steam, sauna, and every other amenity in the building. The morning workout, the working day, the evening swim: all of it without leaving the address.

For residents who need something between the apartment and a full business suite, conference rooms and a business center provide the proper setting for the client meeting or the focused afternoon. Private huddle rooms with workspaces serve the call that needs quiet and the document that needs concentration. And when the working day requires a genuine break, the heated pools, the multiple spas, and the Level 20 residents’ lounge with its lake and skyline views are all available at the moment they are needed, which is the only measure that matters.

The Egg Harbor Cafe on site provides the informal meeting space and the working lunch that doesn’t require leaving the building. At Optima Signature, the infrastructure of professional life has been built into the building itself.

The Home You Work In

The best residential communities anticipate how life actually unfolds, not just how it was imagined at the point of design. The shift toward remote and hybrid work has tested that anticipation hard. Optima communities have met it, not because work-from-home amenities were added in response to demand, but because the design philosophy, that a home should support the full complexity of the life lived inside it, was already pointing in the right direction.

From a home office facing Lake Michigan to a private business suite with full amenity access; from a conference room for the client meeting to the indoor and outdoor pools for the afternoon reset, Optima Signature is designed for the way people actually work now.

Come see the spaces that make working from home genuinely work. Schedule a tour at Optima Signature today.