Featured Projects

Location: Chicago, IL

Date built: 1914

Original Use: Bank/offices

Historic Significance: The building is an excellent example of Classical Revival style of architecture in downtown Chicago. Designed by the visionary architect and planner Daniel Burham built standing an entire city block and rising 21 stories, the Continental & Commercial National Bank Building was one of the largest office buildings in the United States.

Developer: The Prime Group Inc.

Redeveloped Use: Lower 12 floors hotel; upper 9 floors office

Completion Date: Expected completion 2009

Location: Portland, OR

Date Built: 1891

Original Use: National Guard armory

Historic Significance: The earliest armory facility in Oregon, the armory housed a drill hall and rifle range, and is important in the history of the state’s National Guard.  It then served as a public hall and community gathering place for Portlanders for decades.

Developer: Gerding Edlen Development

Redeveloped Use: Theater

Completion Date: October 2006

Special Achievements: First building on the National Register of Historic Places in the US to receive federal historic tax credits and to achieve LEED platinum status.

Location: Chicago, IL

Date Built: 1910

Original Use: Hotel

Historic Significance: The Blackstone is best known for its prominent political guests and the political conventions held there.  It features the “smoke-filled room” where Republicans decided to nominate Warren G. Harding as president in 1920 and has played host to countless well-known political figures.

Developer: Sage Hospitality

Redeveloped Use: Marriott Renaissance hotel

Completion Date: April 2008

Location: New York, NY

Date Built: 1908

Original Use: Harlem branch of the Park & Tilford grocery store

Historic Significance: The store at 310 Lenox was a local landmark known as the “model store in Harlem.”  Park & Tilford, founded in 1840, was one of New York’s most prominent grocery stores during this time, known for importing products from Europe and repackaging and manufacturing products.

Developer: Home Court Development Corp.

Redeveloped Use: Commercial/retail space on the ground floor; offices (including those of the National Basketball Players Association) on floors 2-3

Completion Date: Summer 2008

Location: Washington, D.C.

Date Built: 1842

Original Use: Post office

Historic Significance: The Tariff Building, an excellent example of Classical Revival architecture, was the first marble building in Washington, D.C.  Robert Mills, one of the first American architects and the designer of the Washington Monument, designed the building, with a later addition by Thomas Walter, who designed additions to the United States Capitol.

Developer: Kimpton Hotels/United States General Services Administration

Redeveloped Use: Luxury boutique hotel

Completion Date: September 2002

Special Achievements: One of fewer than 2,500 National Historic Landmark properties in the country, and the first building completed through GSA’s lease program.