Ravenswood Senior Living and Tiger Senior Apartments

Two of our adaptive reuse projects were recently featured in the New York Times!

Adaptive reuse is one of our specialities, and a recent New York Times article mentioned two WJW adaptive reuse projects - Ravenswood Senior Living and Tiger Senior Apartments. With a housing shortage and a great need for affordable housing for seniors, adaptive reuse is an effective way to convert existing buildings into homes. Ravenswood Senior Living was a former hospital; Tiger Senior Apartments was a high school. Some of our other adaptive reuse projects include the Jackson Renaissance, Lofts on the Square, and the BEDS Plus Summit Service Center. We also have several adaptive reuse projects in the works: Las Rosas, a former parochial school in Aurora that will become permanent supportive housing, and Garfield School, a historic elementary school in Decatur that will become senior housing. While not without its challenges, as the NYT article describes, adaptive reuse is very rewarding work, and also more environmentally sustainable than new construction.