Award-winning Renovation

Heiwa Terrace has been a beacon of affordable housing in Uptown since 1980, but the building needed modern renovations so it could continue to provide quality housing for seniors and individuals with disabilities. In 2019, JASCHC hired Related Midwest to spearhead a tenant-in-place rehabilitation, designed by Landon Bone Baker Architects (LBBA), to overhaul the building with numerous exterior improvements, reconfigure and brighten the ground floor with community activity spaces, and upgrad units tailored to senior residents. LBBA’s culturally responsive design includes important elements such as open and accessible tenant gathering spaces, art installations and a Japanese garden. LBBA’s redesign of Heiwa Terrace serves as a model for modernization of Chicago’s aging, but critically important, affordable housing.