Cushman & Wakefield awarded leasing of 750,000-square-foot portfolio

January 19, 2012 Cushman & Wakefield of Illinois Inc. has been awarded the agency leasing assignment for a five-building portfolio in suburban Chicago by Younan Properties, a national real estate owner and manager of Class A office properties in five major U.S. office markets. Read more...

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ACCO Brands relocates world headquarters to Kemper Lakes Business Center

January 12, 2012 ACCO Brands Corp., a global supplier of branded office and computer products, has leased 189,092 square feet of office space at 4 Corporate Drive within Kemper Lakes Business Center in Long Grove. Read more...

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GE Capital expands to 371,000 s.f. at 500 W. Monroe

December 08, 2011 Piedmont Office Realty Trust, Inc. has completed a 15-year lease renewal and expansion with GE Capital at its 500 West Monroe property in Chicago. GE Capital renewed 292,000 square feet of its current lease and is contractually obligated to expand to at least 371,000 square feet during the first two years of the new lease. Read more...

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LaSalle Investment management sells Carol Stream property for $22.3M

November 29, 2011 Cushman & Wakefield of Illinois, Inc. has completed the sale of Carol Point Business Center, a three-building, 427,192-square-foot complex located in Carol Stream, Illinois. C&W’s James D. Carpenter, senior director, and Kenneth J. Szady, executive director, represented the seller, LaSalle Investment Management, one of the world’s leading real estate investment managers. The property was purchased for $22,350,000 by AEW Capital Management. Read more...

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Lawson Products signs 86,313-square-foot lease at Triangle Plaza

November 16, 2011 Lawson Products, an industrial distributor of maintenance, repair and operations supplies, has signed a long-term, 86,313-square-foot lease at 8770 Bryn Mawr Avenue in Triangle Plaza for its new corporate headquarters. Read more...

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Cincinnati Commercial REALTORS nabs listing for 1.1-million-square-foot industrial propery in Ohio

November 15, 2011 Cincinnati Commercial, REALTORS, a member of the Cushman & Wakefield Alliance, recently received the exclusive listing for the disposition of the 1.1-million-square-foot Avon building located on 62 acres in Springdale, Ohio. Read more...

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Peerless Network signs long-term lease at 840 S. Canal

November 09, 2011 Cushman & Wakefield has negotiated a 12,600-square-foot lease for Peerless Network Inc at Server Farm Realty Inc.'s Chicago data center facility. Read more...

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Jeff Eaton: The NorthMarq/Cushman merger “just made sense”

October 27, 2011 Jeff Eaton says that both NorthMarq Real Estate Services and Cushman & Wakefield Minnesota got what they wanted from last month’s merger of the two companies: Cushman after the move grabbed the number-one market position in the Twin Cities. NorthMarq, meanwhile, gained a global reach that it did not have before. Read more...

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Unilever sells industrial properties to Village of Franklin Park

September 19, 2011 The Village of Franklin Park, a community with over 18,000 residents just Northwest of the City of Chicago, has purchased a two-building industrial complex totaling 284,000 square feet (sf) on 13.46 acres at 9353 and 9451 West Belmont Avenue in Franklin Park, Ill. Read more...

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Women in Real Estate Award Winners

September 12, 2011 Congratulations to all of the winners at the fourth annual Women in Real Estate Luncheon. The Illinois Real Estate Journal is proud to honor some of the best and brightest that the commercial real estate industry has to offer. Read more...

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