Question: Which firm developed the area where Chicago Design Museum is located?
Context: Studio Gang Architects is an American architecture and urban design practice with offices in Chicago and New York.  Founded by MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang in 1997, the Studio is known for its material research and experimentation, collaboration across a wide range of disciplines, and focus on sustainability.  The firm’s works range in scale and typology from the 82-story mixed-use Aqua Tower to the 10,000-square-foot Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership at Kalamazoo College to the 14-acre Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo.  Studio Gang has won numerous awards for design excellence, including the 2016 Architizer A+ Firm of the Year Award and the 2013 National Design Award for Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, as well as various awards from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and AIA Chicago. Block 37, also known as 108 North State Street or Block Thirty Seven, is a development located in the Loop community area of downtown Chicago, Illinois.  The 3 building structure was being developed by Joseph Freed and Associates LLC, as a project inherited from the Mills Corporation.  However, in 2011 Bank of America foreclosed on the property and sold it in 2012 to CIM Group.  Retail development responsibilities were undertaken by Joseph Freed and Associates LLC.  It is located on the square block bounded clockwise from the North by West Randolph Street, North State Street, West Washington Street and North Dearborn Street that is known as "Block 37", which was its designated number as one of the original 58 blocks of the city.  The project broke ground on November 15, 2005.  On July 31, 2006, the construction phase began.  July 2008 marked the opening of the first of the three structures and the shopping center opened in November 2009. The Red Dot Design Award is an international product design and communication design prize awarded by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.  There are prize categories for product design, design agencies, and design concepts.  Since 1955, designers and producers can apply for the prizes with the winners being presented in an annual ceremony.  Winning products are presented in the "Red Dot Design Museum" on the premises of the historical Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex in Essen.  In 2013, the Red Dot Design Museum Taipei was opened.  The Red Dot Design Award had more than 15,500 submissions from 70 countries in 2014. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is a design museum located in the Upper East Side's Museum Mile in Manhattan, New York City.  It is one of nineteen museums that fall under the wing of the Smithsonian Institution and is one of three Smithsonian facilities located in New York City, the other two being the George Gustav Heye Center in Bowling Green and the Archives of American Art New York Research Center in the Flatiron District.  It is the only museum in the United States devoted to historical and contemporary design.  Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity. Design Museum of Thessaloniki is a design museum in Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece.  It collects items of industrial and graphic design. Winslow George Anderson (May 17, 1917 – December 10, 2007) was a noted artist, painter, ceramicist and glass designer from Plymouth, Massachusetts.  A graduate of Alfred University's School of Ceramics, Anderson was a leading glass designer for the Blenko Glass Company of West Virginia (1946-1953) and Design Director for Lenox China and Crystal, located in Trenton, New Jersey (1953-1979).  He was the recipient of numerous accolades during his lifetime, including Museum of Modern Art Good Design Awards.  His works have been exhibited and collected by museums across the United States, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Chicago Design Museum (ChiDM) is a museum of design in the Chicago loop.  It was founded in 2012 as a pop-up museum, and hosted exhibitions in different venues around Chicago in 2012 and 2013.  Following a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the museum opened a permanent location in the Block 37 building. Brooks + Scarpa (originally Pugh + Scarpa) is an American architectural firm based in Los Angeles, California, USA.  The firm was chosen as the 2014 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award Winner in Architecture.  In 2010 they were the recipient of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Firm Award.  Los Angeles projects completed by the firm include the Solar Umbrella home in Venice, California, the Orange Grove lofts in West Hollywood and the Colorado housing project in Santa Monica. 21_21 Design Sight is a museum in Roppongi in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, which opened in 2007.  The museum, design museum, was created by architect Tadao Ando and fashion designer Issey Miyake.  "The idea was to create not only a museum that shows exhibits," says Ando, "but also a place for researching the potentiality of design as an element that enriches our daily life, a place that fosters the public's interest in design by arousing in them different sights and perspectives on how we can view the world and the objects surrounding us."  The building, designed by Ando, is on the edge of the park area, and features 1,700 square meters (18,300 sq ft) of floor space, including two galleries and an attached cafe run by chef and restaurateur Takamasa Uetake.  The split-level concrete structure includes a hand-sanded steel roof (whose design was inspired by Issey Miyake's A-POC ("A Piece of Cloth") concept) and 14-meter (46 ft) long glass panels. Design Museum (Finnish: "Designmuseo" , Swedish: "Designmuseet" ) is a museum in Helsinki devoted to the exhibition of both Finnish and foreign design, including industrial design, fashion, and graphic design.  The building is situated in Kaartinkaupunki, on Korkeavuorenkatu Street, and is owned by the Republic of Finland through Senate Properties.  The museum, which is 140 years old (2013) and one of the oldest in the world – was first founded in 1873 but has operated in its present premises, a former school, designed by architect Gustaf Nyström in 1894 in the neo-Gothic style, since 1978.  In 2002, the museum changed its name from Taideteollisuusmuseo to Designmuseo ("Design Museum") because the original name was too long and complicated.  The museum also has a cafe and shop.  Situated on the same city block is the Museum of Finnish Architecture.
Answer: Joseph Freed and Associates LLC