TDL Center Project Overview

TDL Center Project Overview
General

  • ​Cost: $44.8 million 
    • $31.6 million from the
      State of Illinois
    • $13.2 million from City
      Colleges of Chicago, part of the system’s $524 million five-year capital plan 
  • ​Location: Olive-Harvey College, 10001 S.
    Woodlawn Ave., Chicago IL 60628 
  • Purpose: To prepare students for both
    further college and careers, and serve as the transportation, distribution
    and logistics (TDL) hub of City Colleges’ College to Careers
    initiative.
  • Size: 103,000 square feet 
  • Features
    include    : 
    • a high-tech central store
      warehouse environment that will act as a supply chain hub to effi      ciently
      provide off      ice supplies to City Colleges
      diesel and automotive
      engine and vehicle laboratorie
    • simulated driving facilities 
    • engine testing cell (with dynamometer) 
    • classrooms 
    • student testing center
  • Design process: City Colleges faculty, staff and students, as well as
    College to Care    ers TDL industry partners, helped design the building to support
    TDL curricular needs
  • Sustainability: the project is pursuing
    LEED Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
  • Project lead: Illinois Capital Development Board 

Jobs Created and Community
Engagement   

  • Total jobs
    created    : 150 
  • Community
    jobs    : 20
    prioritized for residents of the community, or 14 percent of the
    total jobs created through the project. The community area is defined
    as wards 8 and 10. 
  • Types of jobs: The types of positions expected
    to be available include: plumbers,
    electricians, carpenters, pipe fitters, brick masons, painters, ironworkers,
    operators, roofers, laborers, and sheet metal workers.
    Free training
    available    : Seats have
    been reserved for qualified residents without prior training in a
    special construction training program offered at City Colleges’ Dawson
    Technical Institute. Ten scholarships were awarded. Others can still apply for the program. A
    high-school diploma or equivalent is required to take part.  

​Main Contractors       

  • Architect of
    record: FGM Architects     
    • Background: Oak
      Brook, IL-based FGM
      Architects has a strong track record in higher education. The firm, which
      has an office in the Loop, has completed building projects on the
      campuses of Northwestern University, Wheaton College, Triton College,
      Western Illinois University, Valparaiso University and the College of
      DuPage, among other institutions. 

  • Construction
    manager    : Gilbane Building Company 
    • Gilbane is
      one of the largest family-owned construction firms in the industry. Based
      in Providence, Rhode Island, the company was founded in 1873. Its Chicago
      office opened in 1978. 
    • Higher
      education construction management clients include: Addison (IL) School
      District 4, University of Michigan, Elmhurst (IL) Memorial Healthcare. 

  • Demolition: Brandenburg 
    • ​One of the nation’s leading demolition and environmental remediation
      firms, Chicago-based Brandenburg has completed projects ranging from the
      demolition of small residential garages to the total decommissioning of
      an entire industrial facility.