Author Archive for Tracey Labovitz-Berkowitz
Chicago Senior Building Undergoes Retrofit
An outdated residential building once home to seniors is reopening as a modern, energy-efficient and affordable piece of Chicago real estate that seniors can once again call home.
The Ralph J. Pomeroy Apartments on Chicago’s North Side were built in 1992. The Chicago Housing Authority purchased the building in 2006 and closed it down for remodeling.
On [...]
Ground Broken on Green Chicago Residential Tower
The Chicago real estate industry is getting a new high-rise that will fill two popular needs in the city right now: Green building and rental opportunities.
With homeownership at historic lows, many residents in Chicago and around the nation are turning to rental properties for living quarters.
Developer AMLI Residential broke ground last week on a [...]
Green Chicago Rental Nabs Prestigious Award
A new Chicago real estate tower has been named “High-Rise of the Year” by Multifamily Executive Magazine.
EnV, one of the first LEED-certified apartment buildings in Chicago, is a 249-unit luxury rental property that was designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates.
The building was honored with the 2011 MFE Award for its green design.
The 29-story, mixed-use tower [...]
Help the Planet Move Into a Greener Direction
Saturday, September 24 is Moving Planet Day. What will be your mode of moving?
Moving Planet is a day in which the entire world is asked to make a call for climate action and move beyond fossil fuels.
On that day, people are urged to bike, skate, march, run or walk to send out the message that [...]
Chicago Multifamily High-Rise First to Earn Green
A Chicago real estate apartment building has earned the city’s first multifamily LEED EB Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
One East Delaware (OED), which is located right off the Magnificent Mile in Chicago’s premier Gold Coast neighborhood, becomes the third largest community in the country to earn the certification.
Owned by Waterton Residential, OED [...]
New Chicago Neighborhood Will Focus on Green
The Chicago real estate landscape will be getting an entirely new community in the future, and that community will qualify for the nation’s first sustainable rating system for green neighborhoods.
Lakeside is a proposed community to be built along Lake Michigan on Chicago’s South Side where the U.S. Steel’s South Works manufacturing plant used to sit.
The [...]
Chicago Rental Residence Achieves Green
More Chicago real estate is striving to be eco-friendly these days, and one of the latest parcels to achieve the green certification happens to be an apartment building.
215 West, located at 215 W. Washington St. in downtown Chicago, is the first rental residence to be built in the Loop in the last 15 years and [...]
