This is a small developer’s first foray into green multifamily housing, and is a great example of a newer developer that recognizes how green building differentiates their product. These three green buildings make this little corner in Humboldt Park one of the greenest in Chicago! This project is seeking Chicago Green Homes certification. This isn’t a demonstration project with exotic features, but does include nearly all of the increasingly-standard features on green buildings, such as high-efficiency mechanical equipment, low-VOC and recycled content materials. It also includes the all-important layer of continuous insulation (to eliminate thermal bridging), which it is often so difficult to convince developers of this housing type to do.

Location
1600 N. Talman, Chicago, IL 60612 Map

Owner
Hispanic Housing Development Corporation
Architect
Weese Langley Weese
1600 N. Talman is the second phase of a two-building development with a renovation and new construction component. We reported on the first phase, rehab of an immediately adjacent existing building, back in April. While the first phase was family housing, this building consists of [...]

Location
1715 N. Damen, Chicago, IL 60647 Map
Owner
1715 N. Damen LLC
Architect
Wilkinson Blennder Architecture
1715 N. Damen is a new 4-story 10,600 s.f. mixed-use project in the heart of Wicker Park. The building will include a 2,000 sf commercial space on the ground floor, a 2,800 sf condominium on the second floor, and a 3,400 sf condominium on the [...]

Location
2916 W. 47th St., Chicago, IL 60632  Map
Owner
United Neighborhood Organization
Architect
Austin AECOM
Officer Donald Marquez Charter School is one of two green school renovations underway by the United Neighborhood Organiozation (UNO). This first project is housed in a former Misericordia home for disabled children in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood. The two & four story, 58,150 sf building [...]

Location
3018 W. Armitage, Chicago, IL 60647  Map
Developer
The Sanders Company
Architect
Swiss Design Group

Green Armitage is a new five-story residential building, with a first-floor commercial space and eight 1200-1300 sf residential units above. The project has been under the eye of Chicago green building fans for a while, but appears to be finally off the ground (nearly literally). This [...]

Location
1460 N. Halsted, Chicago, IL 60642  Map
Developer
Structured Development
Architect
Valerio Dewalt Train
Blackhawk/Halsted is a new 150,00 sf four story speculative retail and office buiding (two floors of each) with an adjacent seven level parking garage. The project is in the already-crazy North/Halsted/Clbyourn corridor, just north of the new British School and across the street from the soon-to-be-razed [...]