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Blue Cross & Blue Shield IL Parent Takes 100K SF in Pilsen

Health Care Service Corp. (HCSC), the parent company of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Illinois, signed a 103,533-square-foot lease at Condor Partners’ Mural Park in the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s West Side. The deal brings Mural Park to 63% leased. 

Transwestern SVPs Jeff Dowdell and Katie Steele represented Condor Partners. JLL’s Sean Reynolds, Meredith O’Connor, Matthew Carolan, and Amy Berg represented HCSC.

“Mural Park is the preeminent office redevelopment project in Pilsen and Chicago’s Near South Side, and the long-term lease with HCSC validates this emerging submarket as the next prime office destination,” said Dowdell.

“Condor set out to prove that we can develop responsible, respectful and regenerative development in our neighborhoods,” said Michael McClean of Condor Partners. “We aligned the values of the project with the values of the community and were able to secure a 100,000-square-foot lease during a pandemic when millions of potential leases were canceled.”

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 16-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 7-10 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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