Chicago’s Mary Cook Associates adds business development associate

Peggie Grossman (Photo courtesy of Mary Cook Associates.)

Chicago-based Mary Cook Associates, a national commercial interior design firm, hired Peggie Grossman as business development associate.

Grossman brings nearly two decades of residential and hospitality design and real estate industry experience to her new position. Her robust background includes previously serving as design director for Empire Hotel Group, a boutique hotel group on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, overseeing all design, programming, and furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) selections for renovations of existing properties as well as ground-up boutique hotel projects.

She also worked with Kinzie Real Estate Group in Chicago, providing development marketing and broker support services, and Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago as a residential real estate broker. Additionally, she served as design coordinator for Edward R. James Homes, a prominent homebuilder on Chicago’s North Shore.

Grossman received her bachelor’s degree in interior design from Harrington Institute of Interior Design in Chicago and holds an Illinois real estate broker license.