2016 Good Neighbor Awards Program Book

ALBANY PARK

3401 W. Foster Ave.,

Chicago

NORTH KENWOOD

4456 S. Berkeley Ave.,

Chicago

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

Recognizing Excellence in Resident ial and Commercial Propert ies.

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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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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.

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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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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2016 RECIPIENT

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