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Spaulding and Trumbull Family Apartments

Location
1310-1316 S. Spaulding Map
1424-1428 S. Trumbull Map

Owner
Spaulding Trumbull, LP

Architect
Harley Ellis Devereaux

Spaulding and Trumbull family apartments are a pair of former CHA buildings being renovated to reduce the number of units (to 14 for Spaulding, 11 for Trumbull), modernize the buildings, and dress up their appearance. When complete, they will be privately owned affordable apartments. This is a fairly simple project that puts some disused apartments buildings back into use without an unreasonable investment, and avoids the tear-down that many similar buildings would face.

Christopher House

Location
3255 W. Altgeld Map

Owner
Christopher House

Architect
Wheeler Kearns Architects

Christopher House is redeveloping the former Logan Square library (which was replaced by a new green library) into a 14,000 sf child daycare and family resource center. This new site for the 100-year old social service organization will include preschool, daycare, and after school classrooms, a motor skills playroom, plus offices, conference rooms, and a computer lab supporting Christopher House's adult education, computer literacy and family counseling programs. The project is seeking a LEED Certified rating, partially driven by a board made up of many members in the building industry.

Millennium Park Bike Station

Location
239 E. Randolph Map

Owner
City of Chicago

Architect
Muller & Muller

The Millennium Park Bike Station was completed in 2003, and although it is not LEED certified, it does warrant brief coverage as a green project. This is mostly because of the inherently green use of the 3-story building, as one of the nation's only centers dedicated to bicycle commuting and recreation. The building includes storage space for 300 bikes, showers, toilets, lockers, bike rentals, a bike repair station, a small summer time cafe, and houses the Chicago Lake Front Bike Police headquarters. Note that naming rights have finally been sold, so the official name is McDonald's Cycle Center (which this author considers an oxymoron).

900 S. Clark

Location
900 S. Clark Map

Owner
AMLI Residential

Architect
Solomon Cordwell Buenz

900 S. Clark is a 24-story, 440 unit apartment tower currently under construction just north of the Target along Roosevelt Road. This is the first high-rise apartment building (instead of condos) to seek LEED certification in Chicago. It is also AMLI's first project of any sort within the Chicago city limits, although they have many walk-up rental properties in the suburbs.

Center for Neighborhood Technology

Location
2125 W. North Map

Owner
Center for Neighborhood Technology

Architect
Jonathan Boyer
(Now of Farr Associates)

The Center for Neighborhood Technology's (CNT) 15,000 sf renovation of their Wicker Park home in a former weaving factory was the second LEED Platinum certified building in Chicago (CCGT was the first). Having received its certification in 2005 and being completed more than a year prior to that, it is long overdue for coverage on GreenBean. CNT's mission is very much to have others learn from their space - for more information please visit their website or stop by the building for a tour.