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CHICAGO (Nov. 16, 2023) — Chicago-based McHugh Construction today announced it has completed the construction of a new five-story healthcare facility and medical office at 3501 N. Halsted St. for Howard Brown, the Midwest’s largest LGBTQ healthcare organization in the city’s Lakeview neighborhood. The new federally qualified health center, which offers primary care and dental services, opened to patients in the last week of September while McHugh Construction completed finishes on an upper level. The new location offers 38 exam rooms, 12 dental chairs and will serve 23,000 patients a year upon full occupancy.
“We are proud to have built this flagship center for Howard Brown that embodies a calm, sun-drenched healing environment for patients.” said Ken Maiberger, superintendent. “It was an honor to help Howard Brown complete its mission of making healthcare for the LGBTQ+ community more accessible.”
McHugh drew upon its experience in constructing buildings in dense urban neighborhoods to employ solutions in minimizing disruptions to neighbors and adjacent businesses throughout the project. Staging materials on-site and building some of the exterior façade from the inside rather than blocking an adjacent alley are just a few of the methods McHugh used to keep pedestrian and vehicular traffic unimpeded during the 1½-year construction of the 76,000-square-foot concrete-framed building.
Designed by Chicago-based architect Eckenhoff Saunders, the new facility features a glass curtain wall interspersed with brickwork in a variety of shades, while a setback on the top level accommodates a rooftop terrace that offers skyline views. The clear glass façade brings an abundance of sunlight into the colorful, airy common spaces within the facility.
A two-story lobby at the corner of Cornelia Avenue and Halsted Street features an open staircase that leads to the various offices, exam and consultation rooms located on the second through fifth floors, while a Walgreens store and pharmacy occupies the facility’s street-level retail space. A 26-car underground parking garage is accessible from the Cornelia Street side of the building, and the rooftop terrace is available for clinic events and functions.
According to Howard Brown, the new flagship center doubles patient capacity in the neighborhood and offers expanded medical care and social services, including the first Howard Brown dental clinic on the North Side.
The project was developed by Howard Brown in partnership with Inland National Development Company. McHugh Concrete, a sister company of McHugh Construction, was the concrete subcontractor on the project.
For more information about Howard Brown, visit www.howardbrown.org.
About McHugh Construction:
Specializing in multi-family residential, hotel and hospitality, and recreational facilities, McHugh Construction is a fourth-generation, privately-owned company and one of the largest full-service construction firms in the U.S. McHugh provides a platform for collaboration, transparency, and efficiency. Within that seamless approach, the firm offers a full range of core competencies and capabilities including general contracting, construction management, design-build, preconstruction services, program management, concrete construction and structural engineering services on behalf of every client on every project. McHugh’s unwavering commitment to its clients, its ability to deliver exceptional results on time and within budget, and its dedication to growing and developing its partnerships with subcontractors is the reputation the firm has built and the reason behind its 80% repeat business. McHugh has transformed some of the most luxurious five-star hotels like the Peninsula, Ritz-Carlton Chicago and Four Seasons; constructed record-setting high-rise buildings with NEMA Chicago, St. Regis Chicago and Aqua Tower; built recreational facilities at United Center and Indoor Track & Field Facility at Gately Park and led the transformation of Navy Pier through its Centennial Vision renovation program. McHugh has also completed several projects around the country in locations including Nashville, St. Louis, Minneapolis, and South Florida. For more information on the company, visit www.mchughconstruction.com.
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CONTACTS: Paula Widholm, pwidholm@taylorjohnson.com, (312) 267-4520
Kim Manning, kmanning@taylorjohnson.com, (312) 267-4527
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Howard Brown Health Halsted: McHugh Construction has completed construction of the new five-story Howard Brown Health Halsted at 3501 N. Halsted St. in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood.
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