Location
3440 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60616 Map
Owner
Wexford Equities
Architect
Cannon Design

Of the green buildings in Chicago I’ve covered so far, this may be the most low-key about its greenness. The developer’s website has no mention that the project has earned LEED®-CS precertification, which is remarkable considering that the intent of precertification is to boost marketing credibility. Of [...]

Location
300 N. LaSalle, Chicago, IL 60610 Map
Owner
Hines
Architect
Pickard Chilton (Design)
Kendall/Heaton Associates (Architect of Record)
300 N. LaSalle is a 60-story, 1.3 million square foot office tower with 3 levels of underground parking and street and river level restaurant space. The project has earned LEED® Gold pre-certification under the LEED® for Core and Shell program. Construction began [...]

Location
1244 N. Clybourn, Chicago, IL 60610 Map
Owner
Mercy Housing Lakefront
Architect
Murphy/Jahn Architects
Near North SRO is a 5-story, 96 unit single room occupancy that will be home to those on the CHA waiting list or at risk of homelessness. The average unit is only 300 square feet, but like many modern SROs, includes a private kitchen and bath. [...]

Location
4000 W. Lake, Chicago, IL 60624 Map
Owner
Bethel New Life
Architect
Farr Associates
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Bethel Center is 23,000 sf, 2-story commercial center comprised of storefront retail spaces, a daycare center, an employment center, and a community computer lab. The building has a direct connection to the adjacent Lake & Pulaski [...]

Location
2822 N. Kedzie, Chicago, IL 60618 Map
Owner
Brian Warling & Lisa Wright
Architect
John Joyce Architects
The W Residence is a gut rehab and third-floor addition to an existing 2-story building with storefront space into a single live-work space, with Warling Studios on the first floor, offices for the studio and Red Bird Visual on a portion of the [...]

Location
340 E. Randolph, Chicago, IL 60601 Map
Owner
LR Development Company
Architect
Solomon Cordwell Buenz

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340 E. Randolph

340 On the Park is a 62-story, 344 unit condominium tower located on the last available site along Randolph Street between Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue. If you’ve been to Millennium Park this summer and looked north, you’ve had a fabulous [...]