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Skender Completes Construction on East Garfield Park Housing Complex
Skender has completed construction on Fifth City Commons, a 43-unit, 60,000-square-foot affordable housing complex located at 3155 West 5th Avenue on Chicago’s West Side.
The new complex will provide affordable housing to East Garfield Park residents with incomes ranging from 30% to 80% of the area’s median income, and all units were built to Passive House standards of sustainable energy use.
The Fifth City Commons site was vacant for decades. In 2019, the City of Chicago selected the site for redevelopment as part of the global C40 Reinventing Competition for Cities, which encourages municipalities around the world to use vacant land for sustainable, net-zero redevelopment.
The new, three-story facility includes community rooms, a resident terrace and fitness room, laundry facilities, and on-site management offices, in addition to 43 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.
Skender and joint venture partner Ashlaur Construction collaborated with Nia Architects and Perkins&Will, as well as engineering firms dbHMS, Rubinos & Mesia Engineers, Omni Ecosystems, and TERRA Engineering.
