Join Illinois Green for a guided tour of Encuentro Square, where you will learn how the project team incorporated sustainable and health-centered design strategies into a 100% affordable housing development in Logan Square. 

The tour will offer participants an opportunity to experience the project in person, with an educational focus on site planning, sustainability features, and trauma-informed design elements. Attendees will visit common areas in Buildings 1 and 2, as well as the interior courtyard. The tour will be led by representatives from the architects at Canopy, the sustainability consultants at EcoAchievers, the general contractor at Leopardo, and the owner, Evergreen. 

Want to learn more about this project? Join us the day before—July 10—for a webinar that will highlight the project’s certification through Enterprise Green Communities and its use of the ComEd multi-family affordable housing grant, as well as its healing-centered design approach. - register for the webinar here.

Project Summary 

Encuentro Square—named for the Spanish word meaning “to gather” or “to meet”—is a new 100% affordable, mixed-use housing development located at the western end of Chicago’s Bloomingdale Trail (The 606) in the Logan Square community. Designed by Canopy, the project transforms a former industrial site into a vibrant, health-focused residential community that prioritizes healing-centered and trauma-informed design principles. 

On the site of a former manufacturing facility, the site was acquired by the Trust for Public Land in 2014 and co-developed with LUCHA and Evergreen Real Estate Group. The development provides 89 affordable units at or below 60% of the Area Median Income (AMI), the majority of which are family sized units (two-bedrooms or larger). Informed by engagement with the local community, Encuentro Square is designed to promote well-being, connection, and sustainability at every scale.