LINCOLNSHIRE, ILL. — Panattoni Development Co. has broken ground on Lincolnshire Industrial Center in South Lake County. The project will include two facilities totaling 430,141 square feet. Building 1 will span 228,459 square feet on 14 acres, while Building 2 will total 201,682 square feet on 12 acres. Both will feature a clear height of 32 feet. Brett Kroner, Eric Fischer, Keith Puritz and Marc Samuels of Cushman & Wakefield are marketing the project for lease.
LIBERTYVILLE, ILL. — A Fortune 100 aerospace company has signed a 36,149-square-foot industrial lease at Libertyville 45 Corporate Center in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville. The development features two buildings totaling 334,299 square feet. The project includes 4,449 square feet of speculative office space, 48 docks, a clear height of 32 feet and above-standard parking counts. Keith Puritz, Marc Samuels, Brett Kroner and Eric Fischer of Cushman & Wakefield represented ownership, Oak Brook, Ill.-based MWI Property Group. The tenant is the first to lease space at the speculative development, which was completed this year.
ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Simoniz USA, a manufacturer of cleaning and maintenance products, has renewed its 18,013-square-foot industrial lease at 1109 Windham Parkway in the Chicago suburb of Romeoville. Jeff Galante of Lee & Associates of Illinois represented the tenant. Prologis, which was self-represented, owns the building.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, ILL. — Bradford Allen and Moceri+Roszak have topped out the initial phase of Arlington Gateway, a master-planned community in the northwest Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights. The first phase consists of an eight-story, 301-unit multifamily building with 26,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Designed by Thomas Roszak Architecture, the property will offer a mix of studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans as well as 17,500 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities. Those include an outdoor pool, fitness center with yoga studio, media rooms, coworking space, a dog walk, golf simulator and grill stations. The exterior of the building will feature green vertical accents that pay homage to the nearby Ned Brown Preserve — also known as Busse Woods — and Illinois prairie aesthetic. The broader development at the 16-acre site also includes a 150,000-square-foot medical office complex that is a conversion of the former Daily Herald offices, and up to two more buildings. Clark Construction is the general contractor. Completion is slated for the first quarter of 2026.
CHICAGO — Grove Biopharma has leased space for its headquarters and research and development (R&D) lab at 400 North Aberdeen in Chicago’s Fulton Market neighborhood. Trammell Crow Co. (TCC) owns the property, which is part of the Fulton Labs development. Grove Biopharma is a preclinical biotechnology startup that previously operated out of Portal Innovation’s Fulton Labs location. The startup recently closed a $30 million Series A financing round and is now moving into its own space within a 17,000-square-foot Science-Ready Lab suite. “Grove Biopharma is the perfect example of the thesis we planned our Fulton Labs campus around. It’s a company that spun out of Northwestern, then moved to Portal Innovations for incubation and the support ecosystem and is now moving into a large Science-Ready Lab suite to accommodate further growth,” says Morgan Baer Blaska, vice president with TCC Midwest. “In the past, a company on this growth trajectory would have considered moving to one of the coasts, but both Portal and Fulton Labs have provided an environment where science startups can grow and thrive here in Chicago.” Founded in 2020, Grove Biopharma is pioneering its Bionic Biologics platform to develop therapies targeting previously intractable intracellular disease targets. Dan Lyne …
CHICAGO AND NORRIDGE, ILL. — Interra Realty has arranged the sale of two multifamily buildings on the northwest side of Chicago. Each property sold for $1.4 million. The assets are located at 3913 N. Central Ave. in Chicago’s Portage Park neighborhood (eight units) and 4255 N. Neva Ave. in Norridge (nine units). Patrick Kennelly, Paul Waterloo and Nathan Zito of Interra represented both the private seller and confidential buyer of the Portage Park property. The trio also represented a local partnership in the acquisition of the Norridge asset. Richard Dawidiuk of RE/MAX Legends represented the private seller. Both buildings were fully occupied at the time of sale. The Norridge property last traded hands 25 years ago, and this is the first time the Portage Park building has sold since its construction in 1969. The Norridge property was built in 1963.
FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, ILL. — Locally based brokerage firm Barber Murphy has arranged the sale of 36 acres of land in Fairview Heights near St. Louis. The property at 5628 Old Collinsville Road will continue to operate as a golf and sports facility. Barber Murphy represented both the seller, Judefam Sports LLC, and the buyer, O’Fallon Sports 115 LLC.
ELK GROVE VILLAGE, ILL. — Brennan Investment Group has recapitalized the Regent O’Hare industrial portfolio in Elk Grove Village. The portfolio is positioned in the heart of the O’Hare submarket, located along the Busse industrial corridor and three miles from Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The portfolio consists of five multi-tenant Class B buildings with an occupancy of 92 percent. Brennan will continue to operate the portfolio, as it has done since its original acquisition in October 2020. Brennan’s Midwest portfolio totals 30 million square feet of industrial space.
SOUTH ELGIN, ILL. — Krusinski Construction Co. will transform a 14,446-square-foot vacant space on the first floor of the Medical and Legal Arts Building in South Elgin into a daycare center for BrightPath Kids, which operates more than 230 centers across the U.S. and Canada. The interior scope includes partial demolition and full reconstruction of the first floor. The new space will feature activity rooms and learning areas equipped with advanced classroom technology. Mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection systems will be enhanced to meet the client’s needs. Exterior upgrades will include parking lot improvements and the addition of a new playground on the east side of the building. Krusinski originally completed the ground-up, two-story building in 2007. The facility previously housed an immediate care clinic for Advocate Aurora Health Sherman Family Healthcare on the first floor, with law offices and conference rooms on the second. The project team includes Colliers Engineering & Design as architect and civil engineer.
CHICAGO — Kiser Group has brokered the $1.6 million sale of a six-unit multifamily building in Chicago’s Lincoln Square neighborhood. The value-add property, constructed in 1928, has been owned by the same family for over four decades. Each unit offers approximately 1,400 square feet of living space with three bedrooms. The property also includes five garage parking spaces. Katie LeGrand and Jacob Price of Kiser brokered the transaction.