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Landscaping…A Smart Investment!

Posted on September 7th, 2009 by Dimitri Nassis

Lincoln Park West & River North Landscaped Buildout Projects

In dealing with the challenging economic reality of our time, commercial and residential building owners are looking for cost effective ways to improve their properties.  Dollar for dollar, few improvements match the impact than upgrading a building’s appeal through a dramatic landscaping buildout.  Through a collaborative effort with the Landscape Architect Jacobs Ryan, we are happy to announce the completion of the landscaped pool deck buildout at 1960 Lincoln Park West and a residential roof deck in Chicago’s River North with the team at Hoerr Schaudt.  By expanding the living experience to the outside, owners significantly increase not only a property’s aesthetic beauty but also its value.   Below are a few economic and environmental benefits that upgraded landscaped exteriors provide.

Economic Benefits

• A study by Joel Goldsteen of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Arlington showed that of all the architectural and urban design variables evaluated, landscape amenities had the highest correlation with the occupancy of rental properties.
• According to Judith Guido, Director of Marketing for Land Care USA, landscaping can add as much as 14% resale value to a building .

Environmental Benefits

• According to Joan Wagner of the International Society of Arboriculture Arborist News, trees and plants combat global warming by absorbing the carbon emitted by vehicles, lowering carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning plants, and reducing the energy used for climate control in buildings.
• University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Urban and Regional Planning states that Green Space helps regulate air quality and climate… reducing energy consumption by countering the warming effects of paved surfaces, recharging groundwater supplies and protecting lakes and streams from polluted runoff.

Please contact us on your next exterior buildout or roof deck project.  The relationships we have established with some of Chicago’s best landscaped Architects as well as our vast construction management experience required for these projects, will ensure your project will not only be spectacular but will also be completed on time and on budget.  Please check under our commercial and residential tabs for additional photos of our just completed projects and stay tuned for photos of two more roof deck projects we have just started in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.