Where real estate intersects with technology
The importance of location to real estate is so profound, it's usually thrice repeated. The opposite is true of our second world, the digital realm…
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2018 a record-setting year for Louisville industrial market
A banner year. That's how Cushman & Wakefield describes the Louisville industrial market in 2018. And why not? The market set records for industrial leasing…
Entre Commercial facilitates final sale in three-building portfolio disposition
Entre Commercial Realty has successfully brokered the sale of 1880 Circuit Drive in Round Lake Beach, Illinois on behalf of the seller. The transaction completes…
Midwest Industrial Funds acquires 218k SF property in McHenry
Midwest Industrial Funds recently purchased a 218,064-square-foot manufacturing and distribution building in McHenry, Illinois. Located on 20 acres at 1301 Ridgeview Drive, the building was…
Holidays create new wrinkle for retailers: Reverse logistics
One defense of brick-and-mortar retail holds that for some goods, consumers need to hold the product in their hands or try them on. But as…
Opus spec project yet another sign of industrial’s strength
The industrial market continues to boom across the Midwest as 2018 comes to a close. This is inspiring more developers to take on spec projects…
Lee & Associates of Illinois negotiates two industrial leases in Elgin
Lee & Associates has closed two lease transactions totaling 202,750 square feet in Elgin, Illinois. In both transactions, Steve Bass, executive vice president, and John…
Industrial and logistics outlook for 2019
The country's industrial and logistics (I&L) sector performed extremely well throughout 2018, impelled by strong market fundamentals, growth in consumer spending, business inventories and industrial…
Bridge Development plans first spec industrial facility in Bedford Park in over a decade
Bridge Development Partners, LLC has acquired a former perfume manufacturing facility in Bedford Park, Illinois, with plans to immediately demolish the existing structure and construct…
CIM Group acquires data center in Chicago’s central business district
CIM Group and fifteenfortyseven Critical Systems Realty (“1547") announced the acquisition of an operating data center located at 725 S. Wells Street in the heart…