BRIDGE ARRANGES TWO LEASES AT COLD STORAGE FACILITIES IN ILLINOIS

CHICAGO AND LYONS, ILL. — Bridge Development Partners LLC has arranged two leases totaling more than 100,000 square feet at cold storage facilities in Chicago and Lyons. Bridge completed a new 59,121-square-foot lease with Miami-based Quirch Foods Inc. at 8424 W. 47th St. in Lyons, and separately, at another cold storage facility at 2658 S. Leavitt St. in Chicago, the firm renewed tenant Alpha Baking Co. in a 10-year, 53,644-square-foot lease.New tenant Quirch, established in 1967, is a distributor, importer and exporter of food products to the food retail and food service industries and will open its first Midwest location at the 314,000-square-foot cold storage facility.In the new lease, Quirch was represented by Scott Duerkop and Conor Mullady of Jones Lang LaSalle, while the ownership was represented by Steve Connolly and Larry Much of NAI Hiffman. Dennis Salinas of Lowenbaum REP represented Alpha in the lease renewal.