Illinois
Music School Tunes Up for Lincoln Park Sale
The Old Town School of Folk Music is selling the Lincoln Park building it has occupied since 1968, Crain’s Chicago… Read more
Dayton Street Signs VIATechnik in Fulton District
Dayton Street Partners has arranged a 6,350-square-foot lease at 1500 W. Carroll Ave. for VIATechnik. VIATechnik will take the entire… Read more
U-Haul Adapting Former Grocery into Self-Storage
U-Haul plans to open its first company-owned and-operated retail and self-storage facility in 2019. The company plans to carve out… Read more
Chicago-Based Firms Launch Opportunity Zone Fund
Cresset Capital Management has partnered with Diversified Real Estate Capital to launch a new fund that will invest and create… Read more
Green Courte Grows Land-Lease Portfolio with MI Deal
Green Courte Partners has acquired a portfolio of eight land-lease communities in Michigan containing 2,906 sites. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.… Read more
John Thomas Hired to Head Transwestern Development’s Logistics Group
Transwestern Development Co. is expanding its logistics group, previously called Ridge, with the hire of industry veteran John Thomas. Thomas,… Read more
CenterPoint Claims City of Industry Asset
There is still time to joins us at Connect Inland Empire on October 24th at the Ontario Convention Center. Get more information… Read more
What’s Driving Down Self Storage Rents?
New self storage deliveries pushed U.S. rent rates down in September 2018, according to research by Santa Barbara, CA-based Yardi… Read more
RJW Transport Continues Rapid Chicago-Area Expansion
RJW Transport signed a 416,504-square-foot lease at 50 Southcreek Parkway in Romeoville, IL, in what ranks as the largest new… Read more
Revamped Schools HQ Close to a Sale
A venture of Commerz Real is in advanced discussions to acquire 125 S. Clark St., the revamped Loop office property… Read more
Entre Brokers McHenry Office Sale
Entre Commercial Realty has brokered the sale of a 65,000-square-foot office/flex building located at 1391 Corporate Drive in McHenry, IL… Read more
City Aims to Boost TOD on High-Capacity Bus Lines
As part of Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2019 proposed budget, the city will allocate $5 million to support his plan to… Read more
Development Success Means “Timing, Basis, Execution”
By Paul Bubny Two developers with decades of experience and different positions in the marketplace. One is a boutique shop… Read more
UI’s Lindsay Named Asset Management Head at North Wells
North Wells Capital, the investment management affiliate of Urban Innovations Ltd. (UI), has named Tony Lindsay principal of asset management.… Read more
Indy’s Convention Center Will See Expansion, 2 New Hotels
Indianapolis’ Capital Improvement Board has voted to recommend construction of a $120-million addition to the Indiana Convention Center, and to… Read more
Google Opens Pop-Up Shop in Bucktown
Google has opened a new pop-up “hardware store” at 1704 N. Damen Ave. in the North Side’s Bucktown neighborhood. The… Read more
Principle Completes Full-Building Renovation
Principle Construction Corp. has completed a 162,014-square-foot tenant improvement project for Rex Carton at 7400 Richards Rd. in Bridgeview, IL.… Read more
Metro Planning Council: Keep Investing in Transit
There’s a strong link between transit investment and job creation, according to a new study from the Metropolitan Planning Council.… Read more
3 Mega-Projects Advance in Approvals Process
In an unusually busy session for mega-projects, the Chicago Plan Commission signed off late last week on Lendlease and Magellan… Read more