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Pacific Garden Mission

Location
1458 S. Canal Map

Owner
Pacific Garden Mission

Architect
Tigerman McCurry Architects
Image produced by Built Light

Pacific Garden Mission is a 3-story, 156,000 sf rescue mission serving homeless men and women. The new building at 14th Place and Canal is a replacement (not without controversy) for the organization's two existing locations that serve men and women separately, including the location at 646 S. State with the iconic sign (which is planned to be relocated). The new facility will house nearly 1,000 beds, serve 180,000 meals a month, and include gymnasiums, classrooms, library spaces, and all of the food and laundry services required to support such a massive operation.

Clifton Residence

Location
3121 N. Clifton Map

Owner
Private Residence

Architect
Depree Bickford Associates

3121 N. Clifton is a renovation of an existing three-flat into a single family home with a basement rental unit. The project mixes a few high payback major green investments and many inexpensive, common-sense green approaches. Unlike some of the all-out, demonstration green homes we've seen in Chicago, where anything goes, this project has the budget to invest in a few things, but puts the dollars where they stretch the farthest.

Technology Business Center

Location
3440 S. Dearborn Map

Owner
Wexford Equities

Architect
Cannon Design

Technology Business Center is a 138,000 sf core and shell laboratory building and one of the first pieces of the University Technology Park at IIT. The building was formerly the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chemistry Research Building and was purchased by a private company for redevelopment. Rehabilitation work on the original 1959 structure includes installation of a new atrium, exterior wall and window renovations, and new MEP services to accommodate future tenants. The tenant spaces may be built out as simple offices or wet or dry laboratories. The project is seeking a LEED Certified rating under LEED for Core and Shell.

300 N. LaSalle

Location
300 N. LaSalle 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 in July 2006 and is scheduled for completion in 2009.

Essentially all of the green features found in One South Dearborn, Hines' first LEED project in Chicago, are included here and need not be reiterated. One major, but not ground-breaking, addition is a green roof.