2016 Good Neighbor Awards Program Book
2016 GNA Program Book highlighting the 2016 Bruce Abrams Award winner and all Good Neighbor properties. Congratulations!
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ALBANY PARK
3401 W. Foster Ave.,
Chicago
NORTH KENWOOD
4456 S. Berkeley Ave.,
Chicago
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Good
Neighbor
Awards
THURSDAY, MAY 19
NEAR NORTH SIDE
WEST BUCKTOWN
UPTOWN
1325 W. Wilson Ave.
Chicago
1457 N. Halsted St.,
Chicago
BRONZEVILLE
1528 N. Washtenaw Ave.,
Chicago
LOGAN SQUARE
627 E. 41 st St.,
Chicago
LINCOLN PARK
2843-45 N. Milwaukee Ave.,
Chicago
Christopher Collection,
Chicago
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS:
Bruce Abrams Award 10
1325 W. Wilson Avenue, Chicago
Commercial New Construction 13
337 E. Randolph Street, Chicago
3401 W. Foster Avenue, Chicago
4064-4200 S. Pulaski Road, Chicago
Commercial Renovation 17
4038 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
4041 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
4635 W. 63 rd Street, Chicago
Mixed-Use New Construction 20
1457 N. Halsted Street, Chicago
Mixed-Use Renovation 21
2752-54 W. Fullerton Avenue, Chicago
2843-45 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
Residential/Multi-Unit New Construction 23
1446-54 W. Altgeld Street &
2503 N. Greenview Avenue
1528 N. Washtenaw Avenue, Chicago
1806 S. Throop Street, Chicago
2624-2628 W. Belden &
2625-2645 W. Medill Avenue, Chicago
3409 S. Calumet Avenue, Chicago
3413 S. Calumet Avenue, Chicago
4011 N. Paulina Street, Chicago
4332 S. Champlain Avenue, Chicago
450 W. Oak Street, Chicago
463 E. 41 st Street, Chicago
535 E. 41 st Street, Chicago
616 E. 41 st Street, Chicago
627 E. 41 st Street, Chicago
Residential/Multi-Unit Renovation 36
2317 N. Geneva Terrace, Chicago
3153 N. Hudson Avenue, Chicago
4456 S. Berkeley Avenue, Chicago
5656-5658 S. Indiana Avenue
(118-124 E. 57 th Street), Chicago
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A Special Thank You
to the 2016 Sponsors!
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2016 Good Neighbor
Awards Advisory Group
CHAIR
Kelly Mead
Coldwell Banker Residential
VICE CHAIR
Linda Scott
Wintrust Mortgage
COMMITTEE
Ross H. Carlson
Glen Lusby Interiors
Mabél Guzmán
@properties
Trudy Holmes
Exit Strategy Realty
Darlene Kosin
Greater Illinois Title Company
Jwon Martin
Keller Williams Realty C.C.G.
John Materna
CL3 Property Management
Alexandria Pope
Land Inheritance Realty
& Development
Amiel Steuerman
Cypress Mortgage
Victoria Thomas
Related Realty
Mike Wood
ATA National Title Group
Leslie Woods
Land Inheritance Realty
& Development
Tonia Members
ONEprop Illinois LLC
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Welcome
Welcome to the 24 th annual Chicago Association of REALTORS ® Good Neighbor Awards. On behalf of all
Chicago REALTORS ® , congratulations to the 27 GNA winners. We commend your commitment to making
Chicago’s neighborhoods an even greater place to live and work.
Our Good Neighbor Award winners serve as an example of how real estate
has the potential to drive further economic revitalization while playing a
positive role in the community. The Good Neighbor Awards highlight how
we can work as an industry to inspire economic vibrancy and encourage
local pride in our neighborhoods.
I would like to thank 2016 Good Neighbor Awards Advisory Group Chair
Kelly Mead of Coldwell Banker Residential for her commitment, as well
as the other volunteers who dedicated their time to serve on this group.
Thank you for joining us this afternoon. Congratulations to our award
winners, and thanks to all of you for creating impactful developments
that make a difference.
Dan Wagner
2015-2016 President, Chicago Association of REALTORS ®
Inland Real Estate Group of Companies, Inc.
Photo by Jack Lane
Board of Directors
PRESIDENT
Dan Wagner
Inland Real Estate Group of
Companies, Inc.
PRESIDENT-ELECT
Matt Silver
Urban Real Estate
TREASURER
Rebecca Thomson
@properties
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Hugh Rider
Realty & Mortgage Co.
DIRECTOR
Sonia Anaya
America Real Estate
DIRECTOR
Gaspar Flores, Jr.
Su Familia Real Estate
DIRECTOR
Maurice Hampton
Centered International Realty
COMMERCIALFORUM
COMMITTEE CHAIR
Molly Phelan
DIRECTOR
Nicholas Apostal
Coldwell Banker Residential
DIRECTOR
Tommy Choi
Weinberg Choi Realty
DIRECTOR
Robert Eby
Century 21 Affiliated
DIRECTOR
Doug Fox
Jameson Sotheby’s
International Realty
DIRECTOR
Antje Gehrken
A.R.E. Partners
DIRECTOR
Coby Hakalir
Midwest Lending Corporation
DIRECTOR
Erin Mandel
@properties
DIRECTOR
Christopher Pezza
Miller Chicago Real Estate
DIRECTOR
Dave Naso
Keller Williams Preferred Realty
Much Shelist
DIRECTOR
Nykea Pippion-McGriff
Dream Town Realty
DIRECTOR
Sarah Ware
Ware Realty Group, LLC
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Ginger Downs,
rce, cae, cips, iom
Chicago Association
of REALTORS ®
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What Makes a
“Good
The Chicago Association of REALTORS ® (C.A.R.) established the Good Neighbor
Awards in 1992 to encourage rehabilitation and redevelopment in the city’s North Side
neighborhoods. Today, the awards showcase groundbreaking rehabs, redevelopments,
historic preservations and new construction projects across the city and the suburbs.
Good Neighbor Award Winners are visionaries who set new standards of excellence and
make the Chicago area a better place to live.
Exceptional properties are nominated by real estate,
construction and development professionals, and public
officials, such as city aldermen. Nominations are evaluated
by a committee of REALTORS ® and industry peers who
select the finest properties.
Initially, awards recognized property owners whose
rehabilitation projects positively changed their surrounding
neighborhoods. Today, they go much further. Good Neighbor
Awards recognize those whose efforts go above and beyond
their peers to conquer challenges and add innovation to the
market.
The first office-to-residential conversion in Chicago’s Loop
is a prime example of a past award recipient. The developer
overcame numerous challenges posed by city departments,
neighboring buildings and the marketplace. Once a unique
concept, such downtown conversions are now standard.
Numerous other developers expanded the idea and,
ultimately, created a community where none had existed.
Other examples of past award winners include some of
the first conversions of old, abandoned industrial buildings
into loft properties that helped enliven the West Loop
neighborhood with restaurants, shops and nightlife.
Good Neighbor Awards have also recognized historic
renovations that saved architecturally-significant buildings
from the wrecking ball. In one case, a special award was
presented for total restoration of a mansion that stood as
a sole remnant of an elite Chicago neighborhood in what
had become an industrial area. In the shadows of one of the
largest trade show centers in the world, the mansion is now
a bed and breakfast.
Other award winners have included developers who take
special care to fit in with their properties’ surrounding
neighborhoods, and who tackle projects to bring stigmatized
properties back to life. An example of a formerly stigmatized
property is a condo conversion of a multi-unit rental
building in which an arson fire killed seven people. After
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much struggle and several attempts by other developers, the
property was finally re-developed and brought back on the
tax rolls, eliminating blight within a residential community.
The Good Neighbor Awards recognize properties that offer
amenities tailored to their communities, often enhancing
commercial vitality and local pride. This year is no exception.
Projects receiving 2016 Good Neighbor Awards include:
• A mixed-use renovation in Uptown that transformed
a 1928 transient apartment building into a sleek,
well-run apartment complex, with amenities like
an Internet café, Heritage Coffee shop and other
leased commercial spaces that is helping to
re-awaken a sense of community in the area.
• Where a warehouse that didn’t lend itself to
conversion once stood, today hosts 14 occupied
single family homes. The addition of planted
parkways and families in the area, whose children
attend the public school nearby, is helping to
transform a corner of Logan Square.
• A long-vacant property near the Six Corners
Business District has been transformed into a
beautiful, high-end restaurant to invest in and help
build the community’s revitalization.
As they do every year, this year’s Good Neighbor Award
winners tell the story of varied lifestyles in Chicago – and
real estate that responds to neighborhood needs.
• A single continuous public park adjacent to
Millennium Park that integrates active and passive
recreation, Maggie Daley serves as a counterpoint to
Grant Park’s formal landscape “rooms” and provides
families and individuals alike a place to gather
and play.
• A vacant industrial lot has evolved into the Pulaski
Promenade, a symbol of revitalization in Chicago’s
14 th Ward, bringing many jobs to the community
and encouraging businesses back into the area.
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The Bruce Abrams Award
In 1999, the Chicago real estate community lost a great friend with the passing of Bruce Abrams, founder
& president of LR Development, now Related Midwest. His work throughout Chicago, the suburbs and
the country was extraordinary. Whether it was a new construction, an
entire development, renovation, restoration, or conversion, he
did it with class and style. Abrams was a highly successful and
well-respected developer of commercial and residential real
estate, known not only for his tireless energy and ambition,
but also for the care and taste with which he approached
renovation projects in historic and aging properties.
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BRUCE ABRAMS
Award Recipient
The current leadership of Related Midwest continues
to honor his legacy, as demonstrated by the
additional awards won since his passing.
1325 W. Wilson Ave., Chicago
Top Honoree
In 2000, the Chicago Association of REALTORS ®
created the Bruce Abrams Good Neighbor Award, which is
bestowed upon one recipient each year to honor truly exceptional work.
Under his leadership, numerous Chicago Association of REALTORS ® Good Neighbor Awards were presented
to LR Development, including:
Buckingham Place, 626 W. Buckingham
Oakdale Manor, 434 W. Oakdale
Roscoe Place, 733 W. Roscoe
2021 N. Magnolia
Lakeview Lofts, 3201 N. Seminary
Patterson Place Lofts, 627 W. Patterson
1759 N. Sedgewick
1340 N. State Parkway
Hotel St. Benedict Flats, 50 E. Chicago
Ontario Street Lofts, 411 W. Ontario
The Regent, 181 E. Walton
The Chandler, 33 E. Bellevue
Cinema Lofts, 1635 W. Belmont
1043 W. School
Sheridan Park Apartments, 4536 N. Magnolia
Tower Lofts, 1601 W. School
The Marquise, 6133 N. Kenmore
The Mayfair, 189 E. Lake Shore Drive
60 W. Erie
The Pearson, 250 E. Pearson
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