The third proposed Class 6 (b) tax incentive would enable the $1.3-million rehabilitation of a Brighton Park Industrial Corridor building at 2847 W. 47th Place for continued use as a custom furniture factory. The renovations to the 40,000-square-foot facility would include improvements to its roof and façade that would enable Gentner Fabrication Inc. to retain 19 jobs and add 10 new positions. Tax savings over the 12-year period are estimated at $443,000.

The mayor has also proposed the City Council grant landmark status to the Claremont Cottage District, a collection of 19 Queen Anne-style worker cottages on the Near West Side.

Built in the late1800s within the Tri-Taylor portion of the community, the "Claremont Cottages" on the 1000 block of south Claremont Avenue are distinctive for their high gabled roofs, overhanging eaves, carved wood brackets, oriel windows, patterned brick, carved stone, and colored glass, according to the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, which recommended the designation in October.

The 1.5-story structures were conceived and built as a speculative development by developers Turner and Bond based on a design catalog attributed to Chicago architect Cicero Hine. The designation would protect the properties' external features, including the rooflines, from significant alteration or demolition.

The mayor also asked the City Council landmark status be granted for the Mies van der Rohe's Promontory Apartments in Hyde Park.

Built in 1949 at 5530-32 S. Shore Drive, the 22-story high-rise designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's is among the country's first examples of the International Style of architecture. The building's simple, "less is more" design and materials forgo traditional stylistic forms and ornamentation in favor of exposed concrete columns and beams, brick and glass walls and a glass-walled lobby, the mayor states.

Developed by Herb Greenwald, the building was the first high-rise residential buildings to be constructed in Chicago since the start of the Great Depression. The landmark designation, which was recommended by the Landmarks Commission in October, would protect the building's exteriors and lobby from significant alteration or demolition.