What Years in an Optima Community Looks Like
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…
The Kitchen at the Center: How Optima Designs the Heart of Every Home
In any well-designed residence, the kitchen tends to be where the architecture is most clearly felt. It might be the …
Before and After: How Moving to an Optima Community Changes Daily Life
Most people move into an Optima community expecting a beautiful home, but what they often do not expect is how quickl…
The Pool Is Always Open: Year-Round Outdoor Living at Optima Lakeview
At most residential buildings, the pool is open for a few warm months and closed for the rest. At Optima Lakeview, th…
Why Optima Residents Choose to Rent
Choosing where to live is choosing how to live. What makes a home feel like home is being redefined. Ownership isn…
The First Thing You Notice: Art, Furniture, and the Objects That Define Optima’s Lobbies
Walk into most apartment buildings and your eyes drift toward the elevator. Walk into an Optima community and they la…
The Science of the Good Night: How Your Home Affects How You Sleep
Sleep is often treated as something the body does on its own. But sleep researchers see it differently. Sleep is shap…
How to Choose Your Optima Community: A Guide to Finding the Right Fit
For more than four decades, Optima has been designing and building luxury residential communities across Arizona and …
Optima Lakeview Floor Plan Spotlight: The 1B-01 Residences
One of the most desirable apartment residences at Optima Lakeview is the 1B-01 floor plan. Thoughtfully scaled for in…
The Art of the Celebration: How Optima Communities Come Alive Through Events
Lakeview is one of Chicago’s most social neighborhoods, and Optima Lakeview is one of its most extraordinary bu…
The New Home Office: How Optima Designs for the Way We Work Now
The way people work has changed more in the last five years than in the previous fifty. Remote work, hybrid schedules…
The Pickleball Effect: What a Sport Reveals About How We Want to Live
Every sport has a moment when it stops belonging to enthusiasts and starts belonging to everyone. Pickleball had that…
Bringing the Outside In: Biophilic Design and the Architecture of Optima Lakeview
Chicago has four seasons, two of which are genuinely hostile to outdoor life. The question that Optima Lakeview asks,…
Designed to Sit In: The Furniture & Objects That Shape Optima’s Spaces
At Optima, design doesn’t stop at the building’s exterior. It runs all the way through, into every lobby,…
From the Rooftop: Why Optima’s Sky Decks Are Unlike Any Other in the City
There is a moment that happens to almost every new resident of an Optima community. They take the elevator to the top…