Until last year, Cook County General Hospital sat vacant for 17 years. As redevelopment plans fizzled, graffiti from squatters began to turn up inside the 1.2-million-sq-ft building once known as Chicago’s Ellis Island.
The $223-million redevelopment of the area directly in front of Wrigley Field and an adjacent property acrosss Clark Street has been touted as a new economic engine for the East Lakeview neighborhood as well as a long-term investment in club facilities by the Ricketts family.
Developers broke ground earlier this month on a $460-million redevelopment of the 33-story New Orleans World Trade Center tower into a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, bringing to fruition a restoration that has been more than 20 years in the making and mired in setbacks.
The future of the iconic Fannie Mae property in northwest Washington, D.C., with a mixed-use “urban village” redevelopment plan that includes residences, hotels and commercial space.
To create this “habitable steel sculpture,” project teams transformed the city of Hutto’s iconic, 65-year-old Hutto Cotton and Grain Co-Op into a new 6,500-sq-ft, open-air public gathering space.
Winder, Ga., revitalized its main downtown thoroughfare by combining the design and resources of a streetscape enhancement effort with those of a roadway maintenance project.