Mortenson to Help Build Community Ties with $38M Wellness Center

CHICAGO, Ill. – Mortenson Construction is launching a major renovation and expansion of Harper College’s sports and wellness center to create a state-of-the-art health and recreation center for the Palatine, Illinois community college and Chicago’s northwest suburbs. The $38-million project includes constructing the shell and core of a 10,000-square-foot addition planned to house a medical clinic run by Northwest Community Healthcare for students, faculty, staff and area residents.

Harper College, along with Mortenson Construction and architect Cannon Design, recently held a groundbreaking for the modernization project.

Building M, closed until the renovation is completed in August 2018, is home to the school’s athletics and kinesiology and health education departments as well as a pool, fitness center and gym used for sports, and as the site of many campus and community events. In addition to a total renovation and upgrading of these current departments, team training facilities and fitness and public spaces, Mortenson will be adding a new sports medicine area, exercise rooms and six classrooms to the existing two-story, 130,000-square-foot building.

Mortenson has completed $1.3 billion in higher education new construction and renovations across the United States in the last 10 years. In Chicago, Mortenson built the Jeanne Gang-designed residence hall for the University of Chicago that opened in the fall of 2016. Other projects include transforming a chemistry building into Wheaton College’s new Amerding Center for Music & the Arts and modernizing and expanding several buildings to create new classrooms, offices, student services center and cafeteria for College of Lake County.

Rendering courtesy of Cannon Design as Architect/Engineer.