Assemble Chicago

Spearheading innovating housing, community and outdoor programs in a vertical package

Location

Chicago IL

The Loop

Status

Design

Size

225,800 SF

Client

The Community Builders

Contractor

TBD

Type

Affordable Housing

Commercial

Community

Housing

Market Rate Housing

Mixed-Use

Assemble Chicago proposes a mixed-use building and community anchor that includes over 200 affordable apartments, a sophisticated neighborhood hub, and comprehensive civic programs that combine to form a complete vertical community in the heart of Chicago’s State Street commercial district alongside Pritzker Park and the Harold Washington Library.

The building extends and complements Pritzker Park inviting its surroundings to enjoy improved outdoor amenities, an indoor food hall, as well as a health and wellness program emphasizing preventative care, healthy foods, fitness, and mental well-being. Anchoring these is the building’s multi-level public base: the NeighborHub, which provides indoor and outdoor recreational, wellness, professional, and cultural resources for groups across Chicago.

The NeighborHub is a highly accessible civic asset that enhances the public realm, offers new programmable spaces, and allows building residents to connect. The design implements an integrated approach to sustainability and resiliency that achieves carbon neutrality, minimizes waste, promotes biodiversity, and provides an on-site forum to advance sustainability and community development efforts throughout the neighborhood, city and beyond.