Chicago, Illinois -- Shaun Donovan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development recently visited the Pullman Wheelworks Apartments in Chicago’s historic Pullman neighborhood and touted the value of this historic rehabilitation as a poster project for affordable housing and neighborhood stabilization. For an account of Secretary Donovan’s visit to Pullman click here.

MacRostie Historic Advisors is providing historic preservation consulting services to Mercy Housing Lakefront for the Pullman rehabilitation which is utilizing federal historic tax credits. For more information on the project click here.

On February 21st, Jen Hembree and I attended the Grand Opening of Wake Forest Biotech Place in downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Located in the former R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Factory 91, a unique building constructed in 1937 with 100% glass-block walls, BioTech Place provides 242,000 square feet of substantial laboratory, meeting and commercial space.

Developed by our client, Baltimore-based Wexford Science and Technology, the $105 million project will create 350 new high-paying jobs in the heart of Winston-Salem. The rehabilitation’s completion represents the first phase of a larger project that will convert the historic R.J. Reynolds tobacco factory complex into a state-of-the-art medical research and bio-tech park conceived by Piedmont Triad Research Park.