opportunity zone

IllinoisCRE

Complicated but worth it: Real estate tax incentives and structures designed for cannabis companies

The cannabis boom in Illinois has created a real estate boom in that sector, too—and just like everything in cannabis, it’s complicated. When you’re advising…

First phase of Opportunity Zone project, Ogden Commons, tops out on Chicago’s West Side

Chicago-based firms The Habitat Company, James McHugh Construction Co. and Bowa Construction recently topped off a commercial and retail building that marks phase one of…

JDP breaks ground on ICON student housing project at U of I

Jackson Dearborn Partners (JDP), a real estate investment and development company based in Chicago, announced the formal groundbreaking of ICON, a 276-bed student housing project…

MinnesotaMultifamily

Forward thinking: NAI Legacy’s Opportunity Zone fund off to strong start in 2020

Call it planning ahead. But when the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 unveiled the Opportunity Zone program, officials with Minneapolis' NAI Legacy saw…

MinnesotaMultifamily

NAI Legacy closes on Opportunity Zone development in Minnesota

Minneapolis-based NAI Legacy has closed on Birdtown Flats, a new luxury apartment building in Robbinsdale, Minnesota.

MidwestFinance

Cresset Partners and Diversified Real Estate Capital close first QOZ fund, launch Fund II

Cresset and Diversified Real Estate Capital have closed their first Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) fund, the Cresset-Diversified QOZ Fund (Fund I), after raising the $465…

Chicago’s largest mixed-use Opportunity Zone project secures financing

Construction is underway for phase one at Ogden Commons, a $200 million mixed-use project in Chicago’s North Lawndale neighborhood being developed in a public-private partnership…

Decennial Group hires Ben Harris to lead investor relations

Decennial Group, a national real estate development and investment firm, has hired Ben Harris as senior vice president of investor relations. In this role, Harris…

JLL marketing Opportunity Zone development in Indianapolis

JLL Capital Markets, on behalf of Indianapolis-based Ambrose Property Group, is offering for sale Waterside, a 91-acre, shovel-ready, urban development opportunity within a Qualified Opportunity…

Cedar Street, Origin Investments form $65M JV to develop Pilsen Gateway

Chicago-based companies Origin Investments and Cedar Street Companies have executed a joint venture agreement for the development of Pilsen Gateway, a $64.5 million multifamily project…