Location Type

Commercial Building

Commercial Building follows offices, stores, exchanges, hotels, and mixed-use blocks where business shaped daily urban life.

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386

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6

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Research In Commercial Building

386 published articles

Eastern Market, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Eastern Market: Preserving the Work Behind Detroit’s Market Day

Detroit Commercial Building Active

Detroit’s market sheds belong to a larger food district whose preservation depends on room for trade, delivery, and small businesses as well as public...

Place
Eastern Market, Detroit
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
4
Updated
2026
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit

Research Record

Updated 2026

Pewabic Pottery: Detroit’s Architectural History at the Workbench

Detroit Commercial Building Active

Pewabic links the city’s decorated buildings to a surviving place of production, where craft knowledge is part of the heritage being kept alive.

Place
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit
Coverage
Approximate
Sources
3
Updated
2026
500 North Michigan Avenue

Research Record

Updated 2026

500 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Adaptive Reuse

The 24-story tower will keep ground-floor retail while vacant offices become housing and a new rooftop level changes the building's original profile.

Place
500 North Michigan Avenue
Coverage
Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Stone Medical Center

Research Record

Updated 2026

Stone Medical Center, Chicago

Chicago Campus / Institutional Endangered

A 28-story apartment tower will replace a labor and health-care building whose atrium and paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures gave the corner a distinctive public...

Place
Stone Medical Center
Coverage
Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Ann Sather Building

Research Record

Updated 2026

Ann Sather Building, 909 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Demolished / Lost

The restaurant relocated, but the loss of its longtime building closes a distinct chapter in the commercial life surrounding the Belmont elevated station.

Place
Ann Sather Building
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Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
168 North Clinton Street

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Updated 2026

168 North Clinton Street, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Demolished / Lost

The slow dismantling salvaged heavy timber and brick but erased one of the West Loop's remaining nineteenth-century loft buildings before a new use for...

Place
168 North Clinton Street
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Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
900 South Clinton Street

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Updated 2026

900 South Clinton Street, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Demolished / Lost

A glass-block-fronted commercial building disappeared as a utility assembled most of the surrounding block, leaving the purpose of the cleared land unresolved.

Place
900 South Clinton Street
Coverage
Exact
Sources
2
Updated
2026
Gordon's and Sears Department Store Block

Research Record

Updated 2026

Gordon’s and Sears Department Store Block, Gary

Gary Commercial Building Endangered

A downtown retail block dating to the 1920s is being cleared alongside the Genesis Center, consolidating a large redevelopment footprint near Gary's transit hub.

Place
Gordon's and Sears Department Store Block
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Exact
Sources
3
Updated
2026
Mecca Building and 487 Broadway

Research Record

Updated 2026

Mecca Building and 487 Broadway, Gary

Gary Commercial Building Endangered

A downtown safety project now tests whether demolition logistics can justify acquiring and removing a functioning neighboring building with decades of family stewardship.

Place
Mecca Building and 487 Broadway
Coverage
Exact
Sources
2
Updated
2026
Loughran Building

Research Record

Updated 2026

Loughran Building, Joliet

Illinois Commercial Building Under Redevelopment

The 2025 solicitation placed preservation, financial capacity, and downtown activation into the same developer-selection process.

Place
Loughran Building
Coverage
Exact
Sources
1
Updated
2026
61–65 South Grove Avenue

Research Record

Updated 2026

61–65 South Grove Avenue, Elgin

Elgin Commercial Building Under Redevelopment

The project tests whether TIF support can return deteriorated historic fabric to productive mixed use without sacrificing its downtown character.

Place
61–65 South Grove Avenue
Coverage
Exact
Sources
1
Updated
2026
TimeLine Theatre

Research Record

Updated 2026

TimeLine Theatre at 5035 North Broadway, Chicago

Chicago Civic Building Active

The new cultural complex adds performance rooms and a marquee to Broadway while raising a preservation question about reuse that retained a site and...

Place
TimeLine Theatre
Coverage
Exact
Sources
1
Updated
2026

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