Skender has completed a gut renovation of Chicago Public Media’s studio space, located at 848 E. Grand Ave on Chicago’s historic Navy Pier. The project follows Skender’s 2019 build-out of the office space and café surrounding the media company’s studios.

The gut rehab of the 7,600-square-foot studio space, which serves both WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times, featured the addition of custom soundproof windows between studios, soundproof editing booths, acoustic wall panels, mobile sound diffusers and finished-off millwork and graphics.

Skender built out four two-person edit booths, two anchor studios, a talk studio, a backup on-air and production studio, a dedicated production studio, an audio/visual studio and an on-air music studio. The project team also consisted of V Three Studios and Syska Hennessy Group.

“Chicago Public Media is an institution locally in Chicago and the state of Illinois, and nationally,” said Mike Hightower, project manager at Skender. “Given our work on the organization’s offices in 2019, the Skender team was intimately familiar with the space and its people and understood the unique complexities of completing a construction project on Navy Pier.”