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Sustainability is Above Board at Chicago’s Newest Harbor
March 20, 2013 by Matt Baker · 1 Comment
By Matt Baker
Bears season tickets. That is possibly the only waiting list in Chicago longer than the one to get a boat slip. With marina demand so large, the need for a new harbor was evident. The Chicago Park District conducted a study of the lakefront in 2005 to determine the best spot for a new marina. At the top of that list was one location: 31st Street.
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A Decade of Model Green Building
June 21, 2012 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
This June, the Chicago Center for Green Technology (CCGT) turned ten years old. Hundreds of people came out to celebrate the successes of one of the country’s premier green building educational facilities and to launch it toward the next ten years.
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Roosevelt University Eyes the Future
March 15, 2012 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
This group of educators without a school voted to create a new college and, according to legend, purchased the Auditorium Building—the arguable masterpiece of Adler and Sullivan—from the city for $1. “They picked up buckets and mops and literally scrubbed the building back to habitability,” said Lesley Slavitt, Vice President for Government Relations and University Outreach at Roosevelt University. “We have lovingly tried to not just repair, but restore it to its historical elegance.”
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The Green Exchange Comes to Life
March 15, 2012 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
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O’Hare Goes Green. Big Time.
December 15, 2011 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
Courtesy Chicago Department of Aviation
The project was designed to reduce delays and increase capacity at the airfield. Spend some money now, the thinking goes (the current OMP budget is estimated at $8 billion), and make more later once O’Hare’s prominence as a transportation hub is carried on into the 21st century.
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Chicago’s Nine Largest Green Roofs
December 15, 2011 by Matt Baker · 2 Comments
 #1 Millennium Park |
Spanning roughly 24 acres, the 1,067,220 square foot Millennium Park is considered one of the largest green roof projects in the world. Completed in 2004, the $475 million project includes landscape art, full grown trees, interactive water fountains and a skating rink in the winter. What many people forget is that the roof actually covers two parking garages, a transit center and the 1,525 seat Harris Theater. |
FedEx O’Hare Opens City’s Largest Green Roof
October 25, 2011 by jsedey · Leave a Comment
The FedEx Cargo Relocation Facility, is part of the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP), now includes the largest green roof in the City of Chicago. The 3.9 acre structure is the size of three football fields or roughly 175,000 square feet.
The roof is visible from planes as they take off and land from O’Hare. Globally, this is the second largest green roof structure, behind a green roof at the Frankfort, Germany airport.
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Green Building Goes Back to School
September 14, 2011 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
Federico Garcia Lorca Elementary, which opened in the Avondale neighborhood last year, features a vegetated roof over half of the school.
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Local Wholesale Produce Distributor Aims to Reinvent LEED Standards
September 14, 2011 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Jon Sedey
Situated in the Back of the Yards Neighborhood in Chicago’s Stockyards Corridor sits what many hope to be the pioneer in the food service distribution sector. Testa Produce, Inc., an independent wholesale produce distributor, opened its doors to their new, 91,000 square foot, $23 million facility.
On track to become the nation’s first LEED Platinum food distribution facility, everything from the parking lot to the food refrigeration system is a result of President and owner Peter Testa’s vision. “Part of being in the agricultural business is to have a responsibility to take care of the earth a bit better,” said Testa.
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The Taxman Cometh: Ernst & Young’s Green Office and Green Agenda
March 9, 2011 by Matt Baker · Leave a Comment
By Matt Baker
In 2009, Ernst & Young moved out of their marquee address—the 110-story Willis Tower—into a newer structure up the river. Owned by a joint venture of two John Buck Company funds, Chicago-based investor Brijus Properties and Morgan Stanley’s Prime Property Fund, 155 North Wacker wooed the professional services giant away.
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