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Officer Donald Marquez Charter School
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Location
2916 W. 47th St., Chicago 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 is opening this fall as a charter elementary school for 520 students, operated by the UNO Charter School Network. The project is seeking LEED Silver certification.
Green Armitage
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Location
3018 W. Armitage, Chicago 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 is the rare developer-driven, market rate residential project that gets green right - starting with an emphasis on energy efficiency, then considering additional features. The building is designed to beat the latest energy code (2006 IECC) requirements by 80%, and is nearly certain to qualify for at least a LEED Silver certification (but is targeting Platinum!).
Blackhawk/Halsted
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Location
1460 N. Halsted, Chicago 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 (or deconstructed?) New City YMCA. The project is seeking basic LEED certification, and although the green features are fairly basic, it's nice to see another entrant in a fairly empty field - Southgate Market may be the only other green speculative (mass-market) retail project in Chicago.
Evelyn P. Tyner Interpretive Center
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Location
2400 Compass Road, Glenview Map
Owner
Glenview Park District
Architect
Wight & Company
The Evelyn Pease Tyner Interpretive Center is the public gateway to the 32-acre Air Station Prairie in Glenview. The 3000 square-foot Tyner Center educates visitors about the history and ecology of the local Illinois prairie ecosystem, while also serving as a showcase for the cutting edge of green building technology and techniques. The building was designed by Wight & Company and built by Pepper Construction. Lois Vitt Sale was the architect in charge of LEED issues and sustainable design. In May 2007, it became the first new building in the Chicago area to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
Monsignor Andrew J. McGowan Science Building
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Location
1110 W. Belden, Chicago Map
Owner
DePaul University
Architect
Antunovich Associates
The Andrew J. McGowan Science Building is a new 5-story, 130,000 sf academic building to be located immediately south of the existing William G. McGowan science building which opened at DePaul's Lincoln Park campus in 1998. McGowan South will house the DePaul Chemistry Department and accomodate the expanding Environmental Science and Biology programs with several sloped-floor classrooms, computers labs, faculty offices, and teaching and research laboratories. The project is seeking LEED Silver certification, partly due to popular demand from the faculty.
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The Morse Theater
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Location
1328 W. Morse, Chicago 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 the total building area to 18,000 sf. The building has been through a variety of uses and hard times, so it's encouraging to see a local owner take interest in this type of rehab and make it green as well. Renovation projects are notoriously complex and expensive, and this project is no exception - it even includes a difficult expansion of the existing basement.
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