Transit-Oriented Development

Mixed Use Retail / Residential – 99 Mixed Income apartment residences

Height‎: ‎10 Floors / 106 ft (32 m)  Floor area‎: ‎100,000 sq ft (9,300 m²)

Cost‎: ‎aprox. $28 M   Estimated completion‎: ‎2022

Landon Bone Baker Architects

The $28M development by P3 Markets and the Habitat Company marks one of the City’s first Invest South-West projects to be approved, permitted and readied for construction. I was hired by LBBA after approval of the initial tax-credit concept, tasked in leading the design and delivery of the 10-story transit oriented development along the 43rd St. Green Line Station in Bronzeville. The project is fully supported and eagerly anticipated by the local community and has been widely lauded by the City of Chicago.

Maurice Cox, commissioner of the Department of Housing, likened the project to “something from central casting. It’s what we would hope for to be the type of equitable development that we want to see on the South Side,” he said, noting that it was this kind of project that the city hopes to encourage with its Equitable Transit-Oriented Development plan, which is set to be finalized in the near future. This is an opportunity to create kind of greater housing choices on the South Side,” he said. “And I want to recognize that the design team in their adhering to some of our neighborhood design guidelines with the very, very articulated massing of the building — it actually reads as three buildings — is very, very mindful and sensitive to the context.”