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Wood-Based Office Towers Growing Popular

The need for energy efficiency and sustainability has also brought the idea of wood buildings back.

chi-T3-Goose-Island (3) T3, Hines’ proposal for a six-story mass timber building on Goose Island.

CHICAGO—Generations of office workers got accustomed to toiling away in steel and concrete towers. But several innovative designers and architects have unveiled a new concept that uses 19th century technology to create modern office spaces: mass timber construction.

New timber projects such as Minneapolis’ T3 building have already debuted and experienced resounding success with tenants and investors. Amazon agreed to occupy about half the seven-story structure, billed as the largest wood building of this century, shortly after it opened in 2016. That lease helped motivate LaSalle Investment Management to purchase the building earlier this year.

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Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.

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