The Garage

Project Status: COMPLETED

Construction start: December 2014
Completion: June 2015


Project Description & Statistics

The Garage (located at 2311 Campus Drive Evanston, IL) is a 12,000 square foot facility for accelerating innovation as well as bridging faculty, students, and staff with the broader entrepreneurial community.
Completed in 2015, this innovation hub provides an environment where ideas can be developed, built, and tested with the possibility that some of these could become startups.
Located on the second floor of the North Parking Garage the space includes a variety of work rooms, which also double as classrooms, and open work areas that can be easily reconfigured to accommodate the changing needs of the students, professionals, and academics who are working together.

Project Team

Project Management

Bonnie Humphrey, Director Facilities Design & Construction
Bob Gross, Project Manager

Architect, Engineers & Consultants

Architect: Gensler
Contractor: Norcon, Inc.

Contact Information

All inquiries should be directed to:

Bob Gross, Project Manager
Facilities Design & Construction
Northwestern University
2020 Ridge Avenue
Evanston, IL 60208
Phone: 847-467-4263
Fax: 847-491-3869
b-gross@northwestern.edu