The Saint Grand transforms a former parking garage site in Chicago’s Streeterville neighbourhood into a Class A mixed-use development, bringing residential, retail, and medical office space to a prominent transit-oriented location.
Challenge
The project required converting an underutilized greyfield site into a high-density mixed-use destination that would serve residents, healthcare workers, and visitors to the nearby Michigan Avenue corridor. The design also needed to maximize density while creating a differentiated residential experience in a highly competitive urban market.
Solution
Developed for Mavrek Development in collaboration with investment partners Double Eagle Development and GW Properties, the 21-story tower combines 248 apartments with 7,600 square feet of retail space and 40,000 square feet of medical offices. The design expresses the structure of the podium and residential tower through a dark metal and glass façade, while amenity-rich spaces including coworking areas, fitness facilities, yoga studios, and a rooftop deck with pool support contemporary urban lifestyles. Integrated technology systems, bicycle facilities, EV charging stations, and pedestrian-oriented planning further enhance the development.
Outcome
The Saint Grand delivers a flagship mixed-use development that maximizes density and accelerates delivery-to-market while expanding housing, retail, and healthcare services in Streeterville. Targeting NGBS Silver certification, the project promotes transit-oriented urban living through walkable access to amenities, mass transit, and sustainable transportation options.
Located near Chicago’s hospital campus and the Magnificent Mile, The Saint Grand is designed to serve residents, healthcare workers, and visitors to one of the city’s most active urban districts.
An evidence-based market analysis informed the amenity program, shaping spaces tailored to the needs of the project's target residents
Mavrek Development, a vertically integrated real estate firm, realized an opportunity to establish a Class A mixed-use development in the Streeterville neighbourhood of Chicago, IL. The vision for the transit-oriented-project is to transition a greyfield site in a prime location, formerly occupied by a parking garage, into a purpose-built luxury building that caters to local tenants and residents in a nearby hospital campus and the Michigan Avenue Magnificent Mile luxury shopping corridor. The 21-story tower will comprise 248 apartments, 7,600 square feet of well sited corner retail and 40,000 square feet of medical office space.
Branded as The Saint Grand, the design expresses the structure of the multi-story base podium and residential tower featuring a dark metal and glass façade, consistent throughout Chicago. An evidence-based market approach supported informed program decisions. In an effort to attract the target tenant, significant focus was put on amenity-rich spaces from flexible coworking areas and a fitness center, complete with yoga studios, to a rooftop deck and pool to cap off the building. The development will be wired from the ground up with integrated energy efficient and technology systems to enable business and residential needs and well-being. The development is targeting National Green Building Standard (NGBS) Silver certification supporting prominent attributes of urban center living with bike parking and repair on the first floor, walkways for pedestrian activity, walking access to mass transit and electrical vehicle charging stations.
The Saint Grand is a solid example of integrated thinking and project delivery starting from the initial schematic design phase with Mavrek Development and its investment partners, Double Eagle Development and GW Properties, with residential brokerage Luxury Living. The team has delivered a flagship luxury building that maximizes density, pushes the boundaries of differentiation with a 10% ratio of mixed-use space and expedites delivery-to-market.
