VISION: Expanding access to downtown Chicago for residents, commuters, visitors, and businesses.
POLICY: As a public concession, Millennium Garages recognizes its responsibility to our customers, employees, our investors, and the communities we serve. We commit to developing and implementing responsible environmental, social, and governance practices to protect the well-being of our business and its diverse stakeholders. We deliver on this responsibility through Millennium Garages’ management, operations, and governance.
Management:
- Articulating Millennium Garages’ environmental, social, and governance goals and enacting policies to embed these goals in all aspects of our business
- Ensuring accountability at all levels of our organization, including Millennium Garages’ board of directors, senior management, employees, and contractors
- Operating with integrity in all our interactions, including safeguards for physical and digital security, financial transactions, political interactions, and interpersonal engagement
Operations:
- Tracking, reporting, and taking action to address the environmental and social impacts of Millennium Garages’ operations, including energy, air, water, and climate
Governance:
- Defining, tracking, and publicly sharing progress toward those goals, including transparent annual reporting through a recognized ESG reporting platform
ACCOUNTABILITY: The Board of Directors of Millennium Parking Garages is responsible for ensuring that this ESG policy is enacted by Millennium Garages’ employees and contractors. Meetings of the Board will include regular progress updates against ESG objectives and discussion of new ESG priorities.
Millennium Garages reports its ESG performance annually through GRESB, the global benchmark for financial markets. Past years’ reports and additional information are available at https://gresb.com.
Millennium Garages’ Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors evaluate progress on ESG policy goals on an ongoing basis.
APPENDIX:
Millennium Garages ESG Policy specifically covers the following areas of material relevance to Millennium Garages’ business, operations, and impact:
ENVIRONMENTAL:
- Air pollution
- Biodiversity and habitat
- Energy
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Material sourcing and resource efficiency
- Waste
SOCIAL:
- Community development
- Customer satisfaction
- Health and safety (community, customers, contractors, employees, supply chain)
- Inclusion and diversity
- Labor standards and working conditions
- Local employment
- Stakeholder relations
GOVERNANCE:
- Board ESG oversight
- Conflicts of interest
- Cybersecurity
- Data protection & privacy
- Delegating authority
- Fraud
- Lobbying activities
- Political contributions
- Shareholder rights
- Whistleblower protection
Additional material issues will be identified by Millennium Garages’ Management and Board of Directors, as well as through direct stakeholder engagement.