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Lakeside Award Winner Profiled in Crain's
5/7/13 - South Bend, Indiana's SmarterShade Inc.--the winner of the Lakeside Award at the 2013 Clean Energy Challenge--is profiled today in Crian's Chicago Business. “We're trying to keep offices and homes at a constant, comfortable temperature, and this technology is a whole different, sophisticated way of shading,” says Ed Woodbury, president of Chicago real estate developers McCaffery Interests Inc. MORE>
Chicago's Final Frontier // Green Building & Design Cover Story
4/16/13 - In 2050, few Chicagoans remember the steel plant at Seventy-Ninth Street. Residents of Lakeside, the city’s newest neighborhood built on the site of the old mill, ignore the placards in their apartment buildings, which state that for almost a century U.S. Steel’s South Works plant produced the steel that became the backbone of their city—the skeletal frame of the Willis (once Sears) Tower, the ribs of the John Hancock Center. MORE>
SmarterShade Wins Lakeside Award for Clean Technology Innovation
4/9/13 - We are proud to announce South Bend Indiana's SmarterShade Inc. as the winner of the inaugural Lakeside Award for clean-tech innovation and commercialization at the third annual Clean Energy Challenge in Chicago. The award comes in the form of a $50,000 grant to be used by SmarterShade, enabling further research, application and execution of their go-to-market strategy. MORE>
