The Apartment Source
The Apartment Source is an innovative real estate firm specializing in multifamily leasing, sales, property management, and development. For more than 30 years, The Apartment Source has established itself as a trusted partner for all real estate needs, earning recognition from the Chicago Association of Realtors as platinum top producers for five consecutive years. The firm is home to a diverse team of industry experts with hundreds of years of combined experience and a proven track record of success. The Apartment Source’s unwavering commitment to exceeding expectations is validated by thousands of 5-star reviews from clients who have experienced the firm’s dedication firsthand. For more information, visit www.apartmentsource.com
ARCO/Murray
ARCO/Murray is a single-source, national design and construction firm that specializes in commercial construction and real estate needs for Fortune 500 companies as well as individual businesses. Through the design-build process, our engineers, project managers, superintendents, architects, and designers are empowered to execute the most demanding projects across the United States and Canada.
Our diverse experience and unique capabilities allow us to provide the best experience for our clients while building their complex facilities. With over 30 years of experience, we have completed over 5,500 projects across 450 different cities in North America and recently ranked as the Top 3 U.S. Design-Builder (ENR).
Our success is also attributed to our exceptional associates, who employ their expertise, tenacity, and creativity on and off the job site. We are dedicated to fostering a culture that values active collaboration, entrepreneurship, charitable giving, and fun. At ARCO, we pride ourselves on offering the best solutions and adding value to every project through ‘Better People, Better Planning, and Better Execution.’
To learn more, visit www.arcomurray.com.
CenterPoint Properties
CenterPoint Properties develops, acquires, and manages industrial properties in America’s top port markets that optimize supply chain efficiency. Since its founding in 1993, CenterPoint has built its reputation as a trusted real estate partner for many of the world’s leading retail, logistics, and e-commerce companies. With headquarters in Oak Brook, IL, CenterPoint also operates six regional offices in California, Florida, New Jersey, and Texas. Its national portfolio comprises more than 60 million square feet of industrial space across more than 300 properties and serves more than 400 tenants. To learn more, visit centerpoint.com and follow CenterPoint on LinkedIn.
Clark Hill
Clark Hill is a full-service law firm with more than 700 attorneys worldwide. We offer innovative, full-service legal solutions to our clients across a wide range of industries by focusing our energies on client needs and our key differentiators. With 28 offices in the United States, Ireland, and Mexico, we counsel clients where they operate. We have offices in 12 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and attorneys admitted to practice across the country. Our clients benefit from our knowledge of national, state, and local policies, regulations, customs, and venues.
Central to our real estate practice is a dedicated team of attorneys situated across the country providing tailored services to each client to ensure they achieve their objectives. Clients rely on Clark Hill’s real estate attorneys as they invest in, acquire, finance, develop, construct, operate, lease, and dispose of real estate assets. Services often include responsibility for site selection, deal structure, and negotiation. The varied client base that the firm advises makes it highly sensitive to, and understanding of, the competing interests and concerns of each participant in a real estate matter. This helps Clark Hill’s attorneys serve as “dealmakers” and “problem solvers,” balancing business acumen and legal advice. Our real estate lawyers serve a diverse range of respected regional and national organizations, including private developers, corporate owners, business users, borrowers, financial institutions, pension funds, investors, landlords, tenants, contractors, public institutions, insurance companies, governmental agencies, and municipalities. In addition to our core real estate clients, much of our work involves the real estate needs of clients in the healthcare, retail, hospitality, energy, and manufacturing industries.
Clayco / CRG
About Clayco
Clayco is a full-service, turnkey real estate development, master planning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely and sustainably delivers the highest quality solutions to clients across North America on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $5.8 billion in revenue for 2023, Clayco specializes in the “art and science of building,” providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional, and residential-related building projects. For more information, visit www.claycorp.com.
About CRG
CRG is a privately owned North American real estate development and investment firm founded in 1993 with deep expertise in delivering and owning industrial, office, multifamily, student housing and mixed-use assets. The firm serves clients and investors from seven regional offices benefiting from local expertise in Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Seattle and SoCal. CRG has developed more than 12,500 acres of land and delivered over 220 million square feet of assets exceeding $14 billion in value. For more information, visit CRG’s website at www.realcrg.com.
CRE Advising
CRE Advising provides the highest quality CRE services throughout Chicagoland in the areas of development, sales/purchase, restaurants, net lease investment sales and product/tenant representation for retail/office/industrial.
As a specialized boutique brokerage, they are Chicago’s leader in procuring off-market opportunities and their unique approach has helped them complete over three billion dollars in brokerage and advisory service transactions over the past 20 years. They consistently execute over 100 transactions per year for companies ranging from start-ups and new entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. Their goal is to provide clients with a dedicated team and an integrated service approach.
CRE Advising was rebranded in 2023 by Founder, Steve Horvath, from its previous name and partnership. The transition to the new brand was led by President and Managing Broker, Andrea Doyle. The company did not miss a beat during this transitory time, and with the same team of brokers, who have over 50 years of combined experience, they were successful in executing over 70 transactions totaling over 150 million dollars that year. Completed transactions include office, industrial, retail, development, multi-family and net lease sale investments.
One of their notable 2023 sale transactions include Adams Laflin Place and Ashland Place, one of the largest West Loop sales of the past year. CRE Advising also brokered numerous lease transactions in 2023, including the lease of 401 N Wood for the design house Erden, a producer of luxury hand-woven rugs and Eiffel Waffle for their new lease at 1531 N Milwaukee in Wicker Park. In addition to Chicagoland transactions in 2023, CRE Advising was also responsible for completing various nationwide investment sales transactions including representing the iconic Chicago-based Rosebud Steakhouse in the opening of their new Dallas location.
The CRE Advising team is composed of 11 brokers, all of whom have various areas of expertise and complete some of the highest profile deals in both the Chicagoland area and nationwide. The firm also provides asset management services for clients’ commercial real estate portfolios and a wide range of consulting options. CRE Advising’s ultimate goal is to take care of their clients’ commercial real estate needs, so they can take care of their business.
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Friedman Properties
Albert M. Friedman founded Friedman Properties in 1970. Friedman inherited two small real estate holdings in River North: a building which is today the site of the luxury AMLI Apartment building at 71 W Hubbard, and the hot dog stand where he worked as a teenager, which is today 500 N Clark. A short time later, he acquired 70 W Hubbard, the 19th century limestone building that still stands at the corner of Hubbard and Clark Streets.
River North, then considered one of Chicago’s most neglected and blighted areas, had frightened away all but the most determined owners. Despite the area’s bleak prospects, Friedman continued to invest in the neighborhood’s historic buildings. One by one, he acquired and rehabilitated buildings, then entire blocks. He partnered with pioneering tenants—many of whom are now leaders in the arts and hospitality industries—who helped transform the area into what it is today: Chicago’s most desirable 24-hour live/work/play destination.
FRIEDMAN PROPERTIES EXPERTISE
Development
The development department has unprecedented experience navigating the complex maze of government and finance to deliver the best results for our partners. We work closely with Chicago’s best architectural, engineering, and construction firms to ensure that our buildings meet the highest standards of quality and design. Our award-winning results include office buildings, hotels, parking lots, and retail complexes throughout the Chicagoland area.
Leasing and Marketing
The leasing and marketing team works closely with our most important business partners—our tenants—to ensure their complete satisfaction at every step of the leasing process. With over 5 million square feet of commercial, retail, restaurant, and residential space, Friedman Properties offers options that meet the needs of most tenants, and flexibility to adapt with those needs over time. Our tenant-partners range from Fortune 500 companies and national retailers to Chicago’s hottest chefs, hoteliers, and entrepreneurs.
Architecture and Design
The architecture and design team works closely with leasing to deliver creative environments tailored to our tenants’ needs. Our designers specialize in transforming spaces into signature environments that foster productivity and reflect each tenant’s unique identity. Our team offers a full range of design services ranging from programing and space planning to construction documents and administration.
Property Management
The property management team oversees maintenance, security, upkeep, and routine construction for all Friedman Properties’ buildings. Each property has dedicated staff who take pride in the building’s upkeep and appearance, while striving to provide the best possible service in a timely manner. The team can address everything from complex mechanical issues to changing light bulbs; no problem is too small.
Consulting
Friedman Properties is a nationally recognized leader in historic preservation, adaptive re-use, and the development of complementary new construction in emerging urban communities. Friedman Properties can share invaluable experience-based advice to help you at any stage of your complex development processes. Our services range from pre-acquisition feasibility analysis, counsel, structuring partnerships with governmental authorities, to the development of long-term leasing strategies.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP is a global law firm with more than 2,750 attorneys and governmental affairs professionals in 47 commercial and government centers across the United States, Europe and the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. The firm provides integrated, business-focused legal services for clients ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to innovative start-ups. The firm’s multidisciplinary teams include senior lawyers who have served as chief legal officers at major multinational companies and have spent years solving real-world problems in the business, political, and legal arenas.
Greenberg Traurig’s Global Real Estate Practice is a cornerstone of the firm and a recognized leader in the industry. The team delivers diversified and comprehensive legal solutions for property acquisition and investment, development, management and leasing, financing, restructuring, and disposition of all asset classes of real estate. Leveraging the knowledge and experience of more than 700 real estate lawyers worldwide, they serve clients from key markets across the globe. The group’s clientele includes a broad range of property developers, lenders, investment managers, private equity funds, REITs, and private owners. The team advises clients on a variety of matters across a broad spectrum of commercial, recreational, and residential real estate, including structured equity and debt and the hybrids. Additionally, the firm’s practice offers industry knowledge specific to real estate, including alternative and emerging asset classes.
For additional information, please visit www.gtlaw.com.
NAI Hiffman
Hiffman ranks among the largest independent commercial real estate services firms in the US. Part of the NAI Global network, the firm provides comprehensive brokerage, management, and advisory services to owners and occupiers of commercial real estate nationwide.
The firm’s brokerage and transactions division, NAI Hiffman, offers institutional and private leasing, tenant representation, capital markets, research, and marketing services. Hiffman National is the firm’s management and advisory services division, providing institutional and private clients exceptional customized solutions. The management services group includes property management, facilities management, and property accounting, while the advisory services group encompasses lender services, project services, and lease administration.
The firm’s proven platform and attentive approach to service contribute to successful life-long relationships and client satisfaction. A nationally recognized Top Workplace and perennial CRE award-winner, Hiffman is headquartered in suburban Chicago with more than 270 employees nationally, and four hub locations across North America. Visit hiffman.com for more information.
Keeley Construction
Since 1978, Keeley Construction has been a key player in redeveloping the Chicagoland area. Over the past four decades, the firm has earned a reputation for construction excellence, specializing in industrial, commercial, and institutional food facilities. Keeley’s consistent delivery of high-quality new constructions, comprehensive redevelopments, and upscale renovations has uniquely positioned itself as a leader in the business.
Keeley Construction’s dedication to client satisfaction is clear in its personalized approach to each project. By understanding and addressing the specific needs of every client, Keeley places a strong focus on the client’s vision. Acting as a trusted advisor on each project, Keeley Construction has become synonymous with reliability and expertise amongst its repeat and valuable clients. The company’s expanding portfolio is a testament to its commitment to quality and innovation, supported by long-standing partnerships.
In the last year, Keeley Construction successfully completed various large scale construction projects, namely in the institutional food and industrial sectors. Highlights included: Completion of a 122,600-square-foot bake house for Pure’s Foods in Northlake, IL, it’s fifth, for the production and packaging of millions of cookies and sweets sold at wholesale retailers, such as Costco. In addition, Keeley renovated a 100,000-square-foot “ReVITALize” warehouse for Nestle / Vital Proteins in Franklin Park, IL, to house the production of its growing Vital Proteins line. In Villa Park, IL, Keeley fully demolished the former Odeum Sports and Convention Expo Center and built a 138,000-square-foot headquarters and state-of-the-art trucking facility for Arrow Trans Corp. Finally, the construction of a 201,600-square-foot speculative industrial facility, The Ninety Logistics Center, in Hoffman Estates, IL, was a notable project with Brennan Investment Group
Kilpatrick
Kilpatrick is trusted counsel to the world’s most innovative companies. We strive to be at the forefront, from creating a best-in-class client experience; to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion; to proactively addressing challenges and seizing opportunities on the cutting edge of law. Our highly skilled and intellectually curious team delivers practical, business-centric solutions built upon unusually strong and enduring connections with our clients and collaboration with each other. With a foundation of more than 160 years of success, we are steadfastly future-focused, driving innovation while cultivating genuine relationships. We are optimistic about the future and invest in the success of our clients, our people, and our communities.
Kilpatrick + HMB Legal Counsel Join Forces in Chicago
On March 1st, 2024, Kilpatrick and HMB Legal Counsel (formerly Horwood Marcus & Berk) joined forces to significantly increase the combined firm’s presence and corporate-focused practice in Chicago. With the addition of more than 55 attorneys from HMB, the Kilpatrick Chicago office boasts more than 70 attorneys. The team joining from HMB brings well-established practices from a firm with a rich history of serving the Chicago business community. Together, these attorneys have represented leading entities and individuals for five decades across a variety of corporate-focused practice areas, including: Commercial Real Estate, Business & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Litigation & Bankruptcy, State and Local Tax, and Private Client and Wealth Management.
Commercial Real Estate Team
Our award-winning real estate practice represents clients in all aspects of the commercial real estate industry, including real estate transactions, developments, and commercial leasing throughout the U.S. and key international locations. Our team is large enough to handle the most sophisticated transactions and nimble enough to be responsive to client needs, understanding the importance of the business transaction and costs to our clients. We work with Fortune 500 companies, corporate clients with real estate portfolios, developers, lenders, investors and owners, real estate funds, and family offices in all real estate fields, including office, retail, manufacturing, multi-family, storage, industrial, flex, and mixed use.
Depth and Breadth
Our attorneys work closely and collaboratively with attorneys in other practice areas whenever their experience can benefit our clients. For example, attorneys throughout the firm have considerable experience involving real estate in taxation; banking and other private finance; joint ventures and other business organizations; fund formation; securities regulation; creditor’s rights and debtor’s reorganization proceedings; environmental law; sustainable development; Brownfields redevelopment; construction matters; and international investment.
Attorneys in the Real Estate Practice, among other recognitions, are members of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and are listed in Chambers USA and The Best Lawyers in America.
Polsinelli
Polsinelli is an Am Law 100 firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in over 22 offices nationwide. Recognized by legal research firm BTI Consulting as one of the top firms for excellent client service and client relationships. Polsinelli’s Illinois real estate team is a cornerstone of the firm, a recognized leader in the industry and serves some of the country’s most profitable real estate companies as exclusive outside counsel, handling some of their largest and most complex real estate matters. Developers, lenders, investment managers, family enterprises, debt funds, private equity funds, REITs, owners/operators, joint ventures, sovereign wealth funds, international developers and private owners look to our real estate team for diversified and broad legal services.
RATIO
RATIO is an international design firm. Our clients trust us to reimagine places of business, living, education, and community. We design with creativity and empathy, collaborating across our disciplines to inspire, sustain and enhance our communities. Good design is inclusive, contextual, and timeless.
At RATIO, we design for impact.
OUR APPROACH
We embrace our responsibility for the greater good — working with clients to inspire community members, sustain their resources, and delight users. We enhance lives, drawing upon decades of local knowledge and the international resources of RATIO.
Over the past year, RATIO’s impact on the built environment has been felt across Greater Chicagoland. From the transformation of an abandoned industrial campus into a thriving community centric mixed-use development in Valparaiso, IN to a much-needed attainable housing facility for the CHA, RATIO’s interdisciplinary team of designers are making significant impacts on Chicagoland communities.
In Valparaiso, RATIO’s team of design, preservation and landscape architects worked with the client and local and state agencies to not only preserve but enhance the important history of a former manufacturing plant. This work involved securing much needed historic tax credits to help fund the renovation of the campus into a 140,000 SF commercial destination district for Journeyman Distillery. RATIO’s skilled design also delivered a campus that showcases Journeyman’s brand with unique event spaces as well as eye-catching food & beverage areas, solutions that have revitalized the local community.
With the CHA, a project which involved renovating and expanding an aging 1960s-era senior development into a vibrant, inviting, and modern three-building mixed-income community. RATIO’s design team created an elegant design solution that delivered amenities and finishes not traditionally seen in past CHA developments. In addition, RATIO collaborated with the IHDA to effectively coordinate all the requirements necessary to secure critical local, state, and federal funding.
In 2023 we also were honored with being the architect for The Terminal, a 245,000 SF campus for, “Chicago’s Workplace for makers, creators and innovators,” which was the winner of the Redevelopment of the Year in the GCFD’s Real Estate Awards as well as CoStar’s Impact Awards.
In addition to our design work, RATIO has also played a significant role in impacting our community through volunteer efforts and outreach with organizations like Back 2 School America and Arquitina. With Back 2 School America, RATIO helped provide 300 underprivileged kids in Chicago with much-needed school supplies and with Arquitina, we held a round-table industry discussion that provided insights into the Latina and Latino experience in the architectural profession.
RATIO was also heavily involved in professional associations like the Illinois Green Alliance, the Chicago Architecture Center and CREW Chicago. Our most significant involvement was with the Chicago Chapter of the AIA, participation that included being named to their 1869Circle, a recognition program for companies who significantly invest in the AIA as well as support the AIA Chicago Foundation, an organization that helps, “Chicago’s next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.”
Ryan
At Ryan, we believe in the value of the buildings we design, develop, manage and construct. Not just for their dollar value, but the value they bring to the people who use them and the communities that surround them. For more than 85 years, this belief has driven us to take a holistic approach to every project, focusing first on the “why” behind a client’s needs so we can achieve a better outcome in the end.
Three generations of Ryans have led our business, carrying on the principles we were built upon—integrity, honesty, civic pride and a sincere regard for people—while honing our skills and capabilities to stay ahead of today’s fast-paced world. We specialize in development, architecture & engineering, construction, real estate management and capital markets, collaborating at every step of the process to streamline operations and applying our experience to gain important insights into client needs. And because we plan, design, build, own and sell buildings, we have a profound understanding of the intricate balance between beauty, function and cost.
We operate across the country with offices that represent much of the United States. With localized service, we have well-established connections within the community and relationships with the best trades and suppliers, plus we understand the particular rules and regulations within each area. But most importantly, because your community is our community, too, we are passionate about finding the right solutions.
We know that a commercial real estate project is a long-lasting endeavor, both for our clients and the communities in which they operate. Being a part of this work is not something we take lightly. It is our responsibility to go beyond simply fulfilling a request. We bring our expertise and passion to create buildings that will add value to the people who encounter them, from clients to building patrons to the community. Project size is not what matters to us. What does matter is finding effective, timely solutions that are as successful today as they are in the future.
As a national leader in commercial real estate, we know that our clients are as unique as their projects. That’s why, day after day, we’re driven to uncover their stories. To be inspired by what inspires them. To bring the right people to the table so we can collaborate on a deeper, more engaging level. Together, we build something far more profound than the physical presence of a building. We build the backdrops to life’s stories.
Tucker Development
Tucker Development was founded in 1996. Since its inception, Tucker Development has developed, redeveloped, acquired, entitled, or advised on over 7 million square feet of successful mixed-use, multifamily, & retail properties and completed over $1B in total capitalizations in key Midwest and East Coast barrier-to-entry markets. Tucker Development prides itself on its reputation for experience, excellence, and integrity and continues to pursue mixed-use and retail-related real estate investments. Tucker is actively working on several exciting new mixed-use developments in the Chicagoland area. https://www.tuckerdevelopment.com/
Xroads Real Estate Advisors, Inc
Xroads Real Estate Advisors, Inc. (Xroads) is a national full-service asset management and advisory firm that offers highly customized commercial real estate solutions including property management, agency leasing, capital market strategies and property accounting services. With over 150 years of collective real estate expertise and a focus on intentional and intuitive solutions, Xroads’ mission is to use our skills from ownership, lending, and management experiences to become a trusted partner for lenders and owners, maximizing value and minimizing losses.
The Company was founded in 2006 by Michael Nortman. Kirsten Bowersox has been its Chief Operating Officer for more than a decade and together, Nortman and Bowersox have grown the firm to over 6.5 million square feet of assignments. With a legacy of both institutional and entrepreneurial experience, the firm serves a broad mix of clients, including private and institutional investors, family offices and lenders. Our clients rely on us to navigate today’s real estate challenges and to help execute their business plan no matter how small or large.
Collaboration in commercial real estate is essential for success in this industry. It requires effective communication, trust and a shared commitment to achieving common objectives, and it is one of Xroads Advisors’ driving tenets as we constantly strive to deliver positive outcomes for our clients. Just like people and professions collaborate to design, finance, build and lease a building, Xroads’ team collaborates with each other, and leverages each other’s strengths which leads to increased productivity, creative ideas, a sense of belonging and ownership of solutions. The Xroads team fosters a culture of appreciation for our different perspectives, our wealth of institutional knowledge in commercial real estate, and a true desire to be an asset for our clients. While we leverage technology to provide efficient real estate services, we value a personal connection with our clients and tenants. We build strong client relationships by keeping interests aligned and harvest shared experiences to navigate today’s highly unpredictable economic environment.
In our world, the intersection of Strategic Planning, Market Knowledge, Financial Analysis and Execution merge to deliver successful outcomes.
We stand at that intersection and invite you to join us.
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