Optima, Inc.

Optima, Inc. Optima, Inc. is a design-driven real estate development firm. They all contribute to delivering an unparalleled spectrum of services and communities.

For more than 40 years, Optima has been developing, designing, building and managing striking urban and
suburban luxury residential communities. Optima carefully considers, manages and controls the thousands of details that go into creating a distinctive quality home...that is what makes an optima home something you will value from the day you move in. With a focus on creating powerful cost effici

encies that enable us to be more responsive to the marketplace and the discerning personal tastes of our homeowners, optima handles all aspects of development, design, construction, sales/leasing, and property management in-house. We are proud to call AIA and LEED-certified architects, expert construction managers, sophisticated real estate brokers, experienced accountants, and financial analysts part of the optima family.

There’s a particular kind of friction that makes fitness routines hard to sustain: the getting-there part. When the gym ...
06/10/2026

There’s a particular kind of friction that makes fitness routines hard to sustain: the getting-there part. When the gym requires a separate membership, a commute, and a fixed class time that doesn’t bend to the rest of life, the routine becomes harder to keep. One busy week is often enough to break it.

At Optima, the fitness center sits within the same building as the home, and that proximity changes how people actually use it.

See how Optima's fitness and wellness amenities help residents stay active, healthy, and balanced every day.

The first months in an Optima community are about discovery, finding the best chair in the lounge, learning the rhythm o...
06/03/2026

The first months in an Optima community are about discovery, finding the best chair in the lounge, learning the rhythm of the pool deck, figuring out which elevator is fastest in the morning. But residents who have been here for years carry something different, a quieter familiarity with the building and the people inside it that turns an apartment into a home and a community into something closer to a small neighborhood with its own habits and its own sense of place.

Experience how daily routines, lasting friendships, and familiar spaces transform apartment living into a true sense of home at Optima.

Walk into most apartment buildings and your eyes drift toward the elevator. Walk into an Optima community and they land ...
05/19/2026

Walk into most apartment buildings and your eyes drift toward the elevator. Walk into an Optima community and they land on something specific and stay there.

From iconic sculptures to timeless furniture and curated interiors, discover how Optima creates memorable arrival experiences across its luxury communities in Chicago and Scottsdale.

The right Optima community comes down to where you want to wake up, how you want to spend your weekends, and what kind o...
05/11/2026

The right Optima community comes down to where you want to wake up, how you want to spend your weekends, and what kind of place feels most like home.

Here’s a guide to all six.



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A beautifully designed building is a starting point. The courtyards, the sky decks, the residents’ clubs and rooftop poo...
05/07/2026

A beautifully designed building is a starting point. The courtyards, the sky decks, the residents’ clubs and rooftop pools, these spaces are built to support a certain quality of life. But the quality of life they produce depends on something architecture alone cannot deliver: the people inside them, and what brings them together.

At Optima, resident events have always been understood as the living expression of the design philosophy. The same care that goes into the placement of a planter on a rooftop terrace goes into the calendar of events that fills that terrace with people on a Saturday evening. The two are inseparable. One creates the stage. The other is the performance.

Discover how Optima luxury apartments create community through resident events, wellness experiences, and world-class amenities.

At Optima, design doesn’t stop at the building’s exterior. It runs all the way through, into every lobby, every resident...
04/16/2026

At Optima, design doesn’t stop at the building’s exterior. It runs all the way through, into every lobby, every residents’ club, every lounge and business center and sky deck where people arrive, pause, gather, or simply choose to stay a little longer. The furniture and objects that furnish our shared spaces are chosen with the same deliberateness as every architectural decision: for their form, their quality, their relationship to the architecture around them, and their ability to make a common area feel genuinely worth spending time in.

This is what the Forever Modern philosophy looks like in practice, not as a tagline, but as a daily commitment to placing objects of genuine design merit in the places where people actually live.

Experience modern furniture in luxury apartment communities at Optima, where design meets comfort.

There is a moment that happens to almost every new resident of an Optima community. They take the elevator to the top fo...
04/14/2026

There is a moment that happens to almost every new resident of an Optima community. They take the elevator to the top for the first time, step out onto the sky deck, and stop. Not because they weren’t expecting something good, they were. But because what’s actually there exceeds what they imagined was possible from the roof of a residential building.

That reaction isn’t accidental. It’s the result of a design philosophy that has treated the sky deck not as a finishing touch, but as one of the most important spaces in the entire community.

Explore luxury rooftop sky decks at Optima, with pools, panoramic views, and thoughtfully designed spaces redefining modern living.

Every building tells a story about the people who designed it, their values, their obsessions, their vision for what a p...
04/07/2026

Every building tells a story about the people who designed it, their values, their obsessions, their vision for what a place could be. At Optima, that story begins in 1978, with a conviction that architecture should lead, and that the only way to hold that vision without compromise was to own the entire process from the beginning.

Discover the Optima design legacy, where modern architecture, sustainability, and vertically integrated development come together to create luxury communities designed to enhance how you live.

Most people experience great art on a schedule, a museum visit, a gallery afternoon, a curated occasion. At Optima, we’v...
04/02/2026

Most people experience great art on a schedule, a museum visit, a gallery afternoon, a curated occasion. At Optima, we’ve always believed that great art shouldn’t require an appointment. It should be part of the texture of daily life, as present and as natural as the light that fills our buildings each morning.

Discover how sculpture and public art transform residential communities, enhancing everyday living through thoughtful, design-driven architecture.

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Glencoe, IL
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