BRIDGE SELLS 365,359 SF BUILD-TO-SUIT PROPERTY IN METRO CHICAGO

McCOOK ILL. — Bridge Development Partners has sold its 365,359-square-foot build-to-suit corporate facility in McCook, a southwest suburb of Chicago, for an undisclosed price. Bridge purchased 40.9 acres at 8201-8401 W. 47th St. one year ago for the construction of build-to-suit and speculative projects. The facility built for Dallas-based Freeman Decorating Services Inc. was sold to American Realty Advisors for one of its client portfolios. In July 2013, Freeman, represented by Jerry Sullivan and Ed Wabick of Chicago’s Paine/Wetzel TCN Worldwide, and Tom Sutherland of CASE Commercial Real Estate Partners in Dallas, signed a 15-year lease for the build-to-suit transaction. Bridge acquired the McCook site with Akard Street Partners, an investment partnership operated by Hunt Realty Investments Inc. Phase II of the development on the remaining 15 acres of the site is a 226,196-square-foot speculative industrial facility, divisible to 50,000 square feet. Vern Schultz and Tom Condon of Colliers International are the exclusive leasing agents for the project. Itasca, Ill.-based Cornerstone Architects Ltd. designed both McCook facilities and Des Plaines, Ill.-based Premier Design + Build Group LLC constructed the properties.