By William Olson
Developer: Calamos Real Estate LLC Development
Architect: Lohan Associates, LLC
Although most suburban development in the Chicago region has spurred on automobile-dependent urban sprawl and contributed to runaway greenhouse gas emissions, Naperville, Illinois—one of America’s quintessential edge cities—is now home to one of the nation’s models of hotel sustainability.
Renowned as the State of Illinois’ first LEED certified [...]

Location
28 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60602  Map
Owner
Flashpoint Academy
Architect
Valerio Dewalt Train Associates
Flashpoint Academy is a new media arts and sciences school occupying 58,000 sf on two floors (plus a small storefront street-level space) in the Burnham Center (aka 111 W. Washington). The two-year school will offer four areas of study: cinema, recording arts, gaming and animation [...]