The Chicago Plan Commission has approved plans to renovate a vacant warehouse on the South Side into dozens of solar-powered apartments. The developer says the project will show how renewable energy can transform old structures and fight climate change.
Developer A.J. Patton said the project will show how renewable energy can help transform old structures, cut residents’ utility bills and fight climate change.
Karen Weigert, director of the Baumhart Center for Social Enterprise & Responsibility at Loyola University and Chicago’s former chief sustainability officer, said the city needs more such projects.“There are opportunities to make new and existing buildings net zero and healthy across the city,” she said. “If you think about all the buildings Chicago will have by the year 2050, most of them are already built.
The site at 2556 S. Federal St. began life as a printing plant for Rapid Roller Co., and in the 1960s was used by the Nation of Islam to publish its newspaper Muhammad Speaks. In addition to the new apartments, Patton plans to add a floor, as well as a rooftop terrace and amenities such as a dog run out back, all designed by Gregory Williams, president of Gregory Ramon Design Studio.
“This project is under the new ARO, and this is what it can do,” she said. “It is a 68% affordable development with no public subsidy.”A.J. Patton, CEO of 548 Capital, inside his Solar Lofts project at 2556 S. Federal St. on Sept. 15, 2022.
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