When longtime Taylor Johnson client The Habitat Company pivoted direction in recent years to focus on large-scale mixed-use, mixed-income projects created through public-private partnerships, we helped the firm grab local and national headlines around two transcendent projects — 43 Green and Ogden Commons — while elevating the company’s profile as an industry leader committed to housing equity.

With 43 Green being the first equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) on Chicago’s South Side, Taylor Johnson focused on the multi-phase project’s impact as a catalyst to the historic Bronzeville neighborhood, delivering a drumbeat of news coverage in outlets like the Chicago Sun-Times, Block Club Chicago and Chicago Business Journal, an op-ed in Crain’s Chicago Business, and expert panel through the Chicago chapter of the Urban Land Institute. The success of 43 Green has served as a role model for other ETOD projects, including Habitat’s revitalization of Marine Drive Apartments, another public-private partnership along the lakefront in Buffalo, N.Y.

Habitat is also pioneering a new model for mixed-use development with Ogden Commons, its 10-acre, 120,000-square-foot project in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood. The $200 million complex, which is the city’s largest opportunity zone project to date, is one of a few mixed-use developments in the U.S. combining healthcare and housing. Recognizing this, we leveraged the unique intersection of uses to pitch a story on the broader community impacts of Ogden Commons, as covered locally in Bisnow Chicago and nationally by Forbes.com.