Burnham 310

Burnham 310
Southeast view of Burnham 310 and the adjoining County Market
General information
Status	Complete
Type	Residential
Architectural style	Modernist
Location	Campustown
Address	310 East Springfield Ave., Champaign, Illinois
Country	United States
Coordinates	40°06′46″N 88°14′04″W / 40.11285°N 88.23458°W / 40.11285; -88.23458
Construction started	December 2006
Completed	September 2008
Cost	44 million US Dollars
Owner	Greystar
Height	244 ft (74 m)
Technical details
Floor count	18
Design and construction
Architecture firm	VOA Associates
Main contractor	Construction Reality
Other information
Number of rooms	259 apartments
References

After many months of planning, development, and delayed construction, the Burnham 310 skyscraper was completed and opened in late 2008. Originally, the city block at 310 East Springfield Ave. in Champaign, Illinois had been occupied by the area's first hospital. The establishment of the Burnham City Hospital was proposed in 1935, the same year as the Champaign City Building. Under the Public Works Administration program, which was established as part of the New Deal of 1933 during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, both building proposals qualified for federal grant funding.

In 1989, the Burnham City Hospital merged with Mercy Hospital to form Provena Covenant Medical Center and in 1992 most services were consolidated which caused the Burnham to close. The structure then stood vacant for 14 years until it was razed in the summer of 2004.

The tower was designed by VOA Associates, and was intended to be the cornerstone of the "Burnham District" that would link Campustown near the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus with Downtown Champaign. Upon its completion in 2008, Burnham 310 became the tallest building in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area surpassing the Tower at Third. However, the building has been surpassed in height by 309 Green and will be surpassed by 308 East Green Street upon its planned completion in the spring of 2015.

The first floor of the tower is occupied by sales office space for Greystar Communities and apartments. Attached to the east side of the tower is a County Market grocery store, which also houses a Caribou Coffee store. Currently, the County Market is the only full-service grocery store located within Campustown. A fitness center is also located on the first floor of the building. The second through eighteenth floors are a mixture of one, two, and three bedroom apartments.