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Article excerpted from IMT.org  “Continental Plaza is an affordable housing development consisting of one apartment building and nine sections of townhouses in South Side Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood. Using Affordable Community Energy, Inc.’s innovative, mission-driven energy service company model, Continental Plaza’s building owner has been able to dramatically reduce the […]

Article excerpted from NRDC.org “CHICAGO (October 21, 2015) – Retrofit Chicago’s Commercial Buildings Initiative has announced awards honoring buildings and individuals who are achieving measurable energy performance improvement and advancing the effort to improve energy efficiency throughout the City of Chicago. “Chicago has one of the truly great, iconic skylines in […]

Excerpted from Chicago Cooperator “These days, as the summers get hotter, the storms get bigger and climate change is finding its way into more headlines than ever before, more attention is being paid to the environment and how the average citizen can do his or her part to support and […]

Article excerpted from Commercial Property Executive. “Financing green retrofits for affordable properties is no simple task. Yet as this Greenbuild panel presents, there are some very clever ways the industry is surmounting the unique set of challenges. The inherent complexities of the affordable sector make financing green retrofits at affordable properties […]

"Climate resilience retrofits for affordable multifamily housing are critical to the survival of apartment residents. Jim Newman, principal of Linnean Solutions, said in a workshop at BuildingEnergy 15 on March 4 in Boston that “a lot of people are going to be sheltering in place.”