Chicago/Midwest People & Company News, week of November 13, 2026

JLL announced that Emerus, the nation’s first and largest operator of neighborhood hospitals, selected it to continue providing multiple services, including integrated facilities management, lease administration, transaction management, project and development services and energy and sustainability services, for a growing part of its real estate portfolio. The new agreement expands the number of neighborhood hospitals and emergency departments JLL will manage to 42, totaling 1.2 million square feet in Texas, Nevada, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The Harold E. Eisenberg Foundation is partnering with the United Center Joint Venture and its transformative, innovative development site, The 1901 Project, for the Foundation’s 18th Annual Real Estate Challenge. The Annual Real Estate Challenge is a competition welcoming college and university teams from across the country. Teams will create and present a development plan for a future phase of The 1901 Project, a groundbreaking $7 billion neighborhood investment on Chicago’s West Side, dedicated to transforming the area surrounding the United Center.

Baird & Warner is expanding its Oak Park, Illinois, presence with the addition of Beyond Properties, a boutique brokerage whose dozen agents will join the firm as Beyond Properties Group. Led by owner and designated managing broker Erica Cuneen, the group will join Baird & Warner’s Oak Park office while retaining its existing physical location on Marion Street. Beyond Properties Group represents buyers and sellers in Oak Park, the surrounding suburbs and in the city of Chicago.

Broadshore Capital Partners, now the institutional investment and lending arm of Milhaus SRG, announced the closing of a $68.5 million senior bridge loan. The loan is secured by J Optimist Park, a newly delivered 350-unit multifamily community within Charlotte, North Carolina’s rapidly evolving North Davidson Arts District. The financing will facilitate continued lease-up and stabilization of a newly delivered institutional-quality asset in a market that continues to attract strong investor attention.