Midwest Market Reports

What area is your expertise? • Retail services in Northeast Ohio What trends do you see presently in retail development in your area? • The current trend across the board is an increase in environmental awareness. Developers selecting sustainable sites, retailers constructing LEED buildings, and city and county governments working together to minimize the negative impacts on the environment while maximizing existing infrastructure. What type of retail product is doing well in your area? • Power centers, grocery anchored shopping centers and convenient strip centers. What retailers are new to your area? • Menards, Massage Envy, Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries and a Cabela’s are expected. Who are the active retail developers in your area? • First Interstate Properties, Liberty Development Group, Snider-Cannata and Centro Properties. Please name one or two significant retail developments in your area. What impact will these projects have on the market? • The redevelopment of Westgate Mall in Fairview Park is the first redevelopment of an enclosed regional mall in Northeast Ohio into a lifestyle and power center. Centro Properties, in partnership with the Richard E. Jacobs Group, redeveloped the property. The center is anchored by Target, Lowe’s Home Improvement Warehouse and Kohl’s. Additional …

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What area is your expertise? • I specialize in landlord representation, building sales and tenant representation in the Indianapolis and surrounding Central Indiana region. What trends do you see presently in office development in your area? • Medical space has developed at a very rapid pace, single-story garden office space has been prevalent and new Class A space with Interstate 465 frontage and signage has been very successful in new lease-up. Who are the active office developers in your area? • In addition to Duke Realty and Lauth Property Group, who have developed the most office product over the last 5 years, Shamrock Builders, Opus, Panattoni Development Co., J. Greg Allen Builder and Edgeworth Laskey Properties are all currently active. Please name new significant office developments in your area. What impact will these projects have on the market? • The Northwest submarket is undergoing growth with over 300,000 square feet of new construction underway which includes Duke Realty’s 154,000-square-foot Woodland Corporate Park VI and Lauth’s 151,000-square-foot Intech Three. The North/Carmel submarket currently has four multi-tenant projects underway totaling 200,000 square feet, including Panattoni’s 142,000-square-foot project at 1320 City Center Drive. Edgeworth Laskey Properties is currently building the 151,000-square-foot Lake Point …

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What area is your expertise? • The Greater Cincinnati, Ohio metropolitan area — a seven-county area in southwestern Ohio and northern Kentucky. What trends do you see presently in office development in your area? • Speculative new construction and existing Class A buildings have captured the lion’s share of the nearly 1 million square feet of net positive absorption in 2007. In stark contrast, the Class B office market accounted for only 24 percent of this total. This trend is leading to increasing rental rates for Class A product while the Class B rents remain stagnant or are even on the decline. Who are the active office developers in your area? • Duke Realty Corp., Scott Street Partners, Al. Neyer, Inc., Neyer Properties, Inc. and Miller-Valentine Group Please name one or two significant office developments in your area. What impact will these projects have on the market? • Kenwood Towne Place is a mixed-use development adjacent to the high-end Kenwood Towne Centre regional mall currently under construction in the Kenwood submarket. The retail component will contain a Kroger and the area’s first Crate and Barrel along with a 250,000-square-foot office tower that has signed UBS as its first tenant. Nearby …

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