Superintendent Patrick Dobard Archives

World’s Largest Rooftop Farm Being Built in Chicago

October 29, 2014November 5, 2014 1886 Views Bill Laughlin, Collins Woerman, Eastern U.S., Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Richard J. Gannotta, Superintendent Patrick Dobard

CHICAGO — Planning is under way for the world’s largest rooftop farm that is being built in a south Chicago neighborhood.

Massive Rooftop Farm Project Earns EBie Award

July 23, 2013July 31, 2013 1276 Views David Catania, Eastern U.S., Metro buses, New Orleans Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux, Superintendent Patrick Dobard

NEW YORK — “If you first hear that someone wants to put 1.2 million pounds of dirt on your roof, you think they’re crazy,” said Ashish Dua, co-managing member of Acumen Capital Partners LLC (ACP), the owners of the Standard Motor Products Building in Queens, N.Y., which debuted one of the world’s largest or