Revive 6300

Level-1 designed future-ready infrastructure for DL3’s Revive 6300, transforming a historic Woodlawn landmark into a Class-A civic and commercial hub.

At the corner of 63rd and Cottage Grove, the long-vacant Washington Park National Bank building is being transformed into a new flagship for Woodlawn’s civic and commercial future. Led by DL3 Realty, a minority-owned development firm with a long-standing commitment to community-rooted projects across Chicago, this redevelopment forms a key part of the Central Woodlawn Development Initiative.

The project merges preservation with progress, producing a six-story, LEED Silver-certified commercial and public facility that restores the building’s historic façade while constructing a modern glass-and-steel structure behind it. As a prime example of adaptive reuse, it demonstrates how legacy architecture can be reimagined to meet new demands while retaining its civic identity. When complete, the development will offer over 70,000 square feet of office, public, and retail space, including a new Bessie Coleman Branch of the Chicago Public Library, which will occupy the second floor and part of the ground level. The library is envisioned as a public catalyst expanding access to knowledge, visibility, and programming within a historically underserved neighborhood.  

This is not simply a building; it is a civic commitment. Supported by layered development tools from New Market Tax Credits and Opportunity Zone investment to Neighborhood Opportunity Funds and a dedicated City of Chicago library capital grant, the project brings private capital and public vision into alignment. It also marks the first Class-A office development south of Hyde Park in recent memory, signaling that community infrastructure can be both rooted in history and architected for future use. 

Level-1 Global Solutions was brought in early to assist in design coordination and lead the building’s low-voltage infrastructure strategy, with a scope that includes systems for voice, data, video, security, fire protection and access control. Our work ensures that the restored landmark will not only meet 21st-century functional standards but support a diversity of users, public and private, with secure, high-performing, future-ready connectivity.  

As the project moves toward construction, Level-1 will continue to coordinate closely with the development and design teams to ensure seamless systems integration across historic preservation requirements, public library standards, and commercial tenant needs. DL3 Realty calls this project Revive 6300, and it is more than a name. It is working proof that minority development can be restorative, not extractive. We are proud to contribute to a project that is not only architecturally ambitious, but also socially urgent; a building that returns civic life to the heart of Woodlawn by making access, permanence, and public value central to its design.