By Garratt Hasenstab
Owners: Beth & Jim Masterson
Architect: Sullivan Goulette & Wilson – www.sullivangoulette.com
Engineer: dbHMS – www.dbhms.com
Builder/ General Contractor: Crescent Rock – www.crescentrock.com
The Masterson Residence, located at 735 West Willow St. in Lincoln Park, is a truly striking example of “Adaptive Reuse”—the greenest of green building practices. Projected for completion in February 2010, this charming brick [...]

The Gurnee Chipotle sucessfully achieved LEED® Silver Certification by opening day, and is now among the first LEED®-Certified restaurants in the nation. In addition to the wind turbine, the building includes green construction materials including fly-ash in the concrete. Fly-ash, a byproduct of coal combustion that is usually disposed of as waste, is used to strengthen the concrete and make it more durable.

With its first LEED®-Gold restaurant, Max Carmona, Senior Director, Restaurant Design, McDonald’s USA along with the McDonald’s design team hopes to learn which technologies provide the most energy savings and environmental benefits and how they can be incorporated into future store designs. In August, the fast food chain opened its first targeted LEED®-certified restaurant in Chicago. The new fast food eatery is located at 4158 S. Ashland Avenue, just outside the Stockyards Industrial Corridor. The site was home to an older, corporate-owned McDonald’s which was torn down to make way for the new, greener establishment. John Rockwell, the lead quality manager for McDonald’s U.S. Restaurant Group (and a LEED®-AP) calls the new site a “learning lab,” intended to help the company’s design team understand how new green technologies can be employed in both new restaurants and existing ones.

Location
1328 W. Morse, Chicago, IL 60626  Map
Owner
1328 Morse LLC
Architect
Greene & Proppe Design 
 The Morse Theater is a renovation of a nearly-abandoned 1912 Nickelodeon theater building into a 299-seat music venue and a 99-seat restaurant (The Century Public House). The renovation includes all-new interior structure and mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems, including addition of a mezzanine bringing [...]

Location
10 S. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60603  Map
Owner
Exelon Corporation
Architect
Interior Space International
Exelon has moved into its new 10-floor, 220,000 sf headquarters space at Chase Tower. The project is targeting a LEED® for Commercial Interiors Platinum certification, and is certain to acheive Gold status if Platinum isn’t awarded. This is likely the largest green commercial interior space completed [...]

Location
1322 N. Clybourn, Chicago IL 60610, Map
Owner
Rada Development
Architect
Rada Architects
Clybourn Point is a four-story mixed-use building with six residential units and a first-floor commercial space. This is one of the smallest projects currently seeking LEED® certification (goal of LEED® Silver) in Chicago, and is owned by a first-time developer. Many smaller green residential projects are owned [...]