Skender recently broke ground on Deerfield Supportive Living, a 105,000-square-foot project that will provide supportive senior housing at 1101 Lake Cook Road in Deerfield, Illinois.

Developed by Celadon Partners, the four-story building will feature 147 affordable senior living apartments. Skender is the general contractor, and the project team includes Assemble Design Workshop as an architect and SAS Architects & Planners as interior designers.

With an expected completion date of mid-2026, the project is pursuing Enterprise Green Communities Building certification, which was developed to align affordable housing investment strategies with environmentally friendly building practices.

“It’s essential that seniors have a comfortable, safe and affordable place to call home,” said Brian Skender, Senior Project Manager and Team Leader at Skender. “We are thrilled to be adding more supportive senior housing options for the Deerfield community.”

Skender has completed construction on a 38,000-square-foot facility expansion for the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

The new prepared meals center, located at 4100 W. Ann Lurie Place, was completed seven weeks ahead of schedule and has enabled the food bank to increase its response to hunger with the capacity to distribute up to 10,000 scratch-made meals per day.

The project team included JLL as owner’s rep, Partners by Design as an architect, Skender as a general contractor, V3 Companies as a civil engineer, Buro Happold as a structural engineer, Salas O’Brien as a mechanical engineer, and PM&E Partners as food processing engineer.

The expansion added a commercial kitchen for meal preparation, cold storage spaces to support the food preparation areas, a new lobby and 11.5 acres of site work. Skender also coordinated and facilitated the installation of a singular Hydroponic Container Farming Unit.

“The Greater Chicago Food Depository is a pillar of our community, and it’s been an honor to help them expand and serve more people than ever before,” said Eric Fiket, Senior Project Manager and Team Leader at Skender.

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Skender broke ground recently on a new 75,000-square-foot outpatient center for Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Lurie Children’s Outpatient, Primary Care and Infusion Center will be located at 1895 Arbor Glen Blvd, Schaumburg, Illinois.

The project team includes HKS as the architect, Skender as the general contractor, IMEG Corp. as the structural and mechanical engineers, and V3 Companies as the civil engineers.

The new outpatient center will expand Lurie Children’s footprint in the northwest suburbs and serve as a replacement for the smaller locations at Arlington Heights, Hoffman Estates and Huntley. The project includes 40 exam and treatment rooms, and is expected to be completed in the summer of 2025.

“The opportunity to bring critical healthcare services to the youngest and most vulnerable patients makes us extremely proud,” said Brian Kane, vice president at Skender. “It’s another example of how healthcare that is closer to home can change lives.”

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