Echo Boomers grab the headlines during Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference

January 25, 2012 Those U.S. consumers from the ages of 25 to 34 -- the Echo Boomers -- received more than their share of attention during the Financing and Investing panel of the Commercial Real Estate Forecast Conference held Jan. 24 by Illinois Real Estate Journal in downtown Chicago. Read more...

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Sam Zell: Is the love affair with homeownership coming to an end?

January 25, 2012 Is the love affair between U.S. consumers and their single-family homes coming to an end? For younger consumers, this seems to be the case. And for Sam Zell, real estate celebrity and chief executive officer of Chicago’s Equity Group Investments, this means one thing: The younger generation of consumers is pretty smart. Read more...

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Duke Realty renews leases with two tenants at Meridian Business Campus

January 24, 2012 Duke Realty Corp.’s Chicago office has announced that it has renewed leases with two longtime customers in Meridian Business Campus in Aurora. Read more...

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Dayton Street Partners refinances Halsted Pershing Business Center

January 24, 2012 Dayton Street Partners LLC has refinanced the 105,000-square-foot distribution center at 815 W. Pershing Road in Chicago. Read more...

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Transwestern completes two lease transactions at 1111 E. Touhy

January 23, 2012 Transwestern’s Suburban Chicago Agency Leasing Group represented Siete7 LLC in two transactions at 1111 E. Touhy totaling 63,381 square feet. Read more...

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Marcus & Millichap sells Wicker Park/Bucktown retail property

January 23, 2012 Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services has announced the sale of 1923 W. North Avenue, an 8,448-square-foot retail property located in Chicago, according to Steven Weinstock, regional manager of the firm’s Oak Brook office. Read more...

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Prime Group Realty Trust announces lease with Latham & Watkins at 330 N. Wabash

January 19, 2012 Prime Group Realty Trust has announced that Latham & Watkins LLP has executed a lease agreement and will relocate its Chicago office to 330 N. Wabash Ave. on or about April 2014. Read more...

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Bordner-Riney takes new position as director of development with Chicago’s Zifkin Real Estate Group

January 19, 2012 Pamela Bordner-Riney recently joined Chicago-based Zifkin Real Estate Group as its new director of development/senior vice president. Read more...

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Summit Design + Build completes law office in Chicago’s West Loop

January 18, 2012 Summit Design + Build LLC has announced the firm’s recent completion of a 14,500-square-foot build-out of office space for Applegate & Thorne-Thomsen P.C., a law firm that serves its clients in all aspects of development, ownership, financing and investment in real estate, spanning the entire fourth floor at 626 W. Jackson Boulevard in Chicago’s West Loop. Read more...

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Jones Lang LaSalle closes sale of 55 W. Monroe to The Hearn Company

January 18, 2012 Jones Lang LaSalle and The Hearn Company have jointly announced the closing of the sale of 55 W. Monroe, a Class A office building located in Chicago’s Central Business District. Read more...

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