Illinois

CHICAGO — Skender has begun interior construction of the new 536,000-square-foot Bank of America Tower at 110 N. Wacker Drive in Chicago. Bank of America will relocate approximately half of its employees, roughly 2,000 people, from its current office at 135 S. LaSalle St. upon completion of the new building. The Charlotte, N.C.-based bank will occupy 17 floors of the 56-story office tower. Bank of America’s space will include private offices, open workstation areas, conference rooms, work cafes, support space and other workplace amenities. Unique features will include a trading floor, barista bar and market café with two outdoor terraces. The interior will also feature an internal staircase that will connect a two-floor conference center and executive suite. Serving as general contractor, Skender is collaborating with Interior Architects and JLL on the project. Completion is slated for the fourth quarter of this year. Howard Hughes Corp. and Riverside Investment & Development are the developers of the nearly $800 million project. Several law firms, including King & Spalding, as well as investment bank Lincoln International and coworking space provider No18 have signed leases at the property, according to the Chicago Tribune.

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OAK BROOK, ILL. — A joint venture between Clear Height Properties and Buligo Capital has purchased 814 Commerce Drive, a three-story, 171,933-square-foot office building in the Chicago suburb of Oak Brook. The purchase price was undisclosed. The buyers plan to reposition the building, which was constructed in 1990. Improvements will be made to the exterior façade, building entryway, lobby, common areas and landscaping. Commercial real estate firm IRC leases 43,000 square feet at the building and Innovista Health occupies 41,000 square feet. DeVry University, which currently leases 66,500 square feet on the second floor for its Oak Brook campus, plans to relocate. Art Burrows, James Adler and Dan O’Neill of NAI Hiffman represented the seller, Elliott Management. NAI Hiffman has been named the exclusive marketing and property management representative for the property.

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ROMEOVILLE, ILL. — Venture One Real Estate, through its acquisition fund VK Industrial V LP, has purchased a 37,092-square-foot industrial building in Romeoville for an undisclosed price. Built in 1990, the property is located at 1319 Marquette Drive, approximately 30 miles southwest of Chicago. It features one exterior dock, three drive-in doors and parking for 135 cars. At the time of sale, the building was fully leased to one tenant. Ryan Klink of Cushman & Wakefield represented Venture One in the transaction.

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ROSCOE, ILL. — Cushman & Wakefield has brokered the $7.7 million sale of the SwedishAmerican Clinic & Immediate Care-Prairie Center, a 25,565-square-foot medical office building in Roscoe in northern Illinois. Constructed in 2014, the facility sits on 7.5 acres at 4282 E. Rockton Road. SwedishAmerican, a division of UW Health, occupies 80 percent of the property. Services provided at the facility include immediate care, primary care, obstetrics and gynecology, podiatry, orthopedics, pulmonology, cardiology and physical therapy. The other tenant, Siepert & Co. LLP, is a public accounting firm and occupies 3,600 square feet. At the time of sale, 1,400 square feet was available for lease. Gino Lollio, Scott Niedergang and Travis Ives of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, Glen Rock Development LLC. A non-traded real estate investment trust focused primarily on healthcare assets purchased the building.

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ELGIN, ILL. — MLL Capital has purchased a 95,043-square-foot medical office building located at 1435 N. Randall Road in Elgin. The purchase price and seller were undisclosed. The five-story property is located near I-90 on the campus of the Advocate Sherman Hospital. Both the building and connected hospital were constructed in 2009. Jonathan Swindle and Kyle Arnold of Waveland Property Group have been named leasing agents for the property. Boston-based MLL Capital was founded in 2016 and focuses its investments on medical office, laboratory and life sciences properties.

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SHILOH, ILL. — IMPACT Strategies has completed construction of the new Siteman Cancer Center at Memorial Hospital East’s Shiloh campus. The building adds 70,000 square feet of treatment facilities and office space to the campus, which is situated about 20 miles east of St. Louis. Siteman Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer care center in the region. The facility houses labs, a pharmacy, medical oncology infusion clinics and radiation oncology clinics. Archimages Architecture, David Mason & Associates Structural Engineering and IMEG Corp. Engineering made up the project team.

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ITASCA, ILL. — McShane Construction Co. has broken ground on a 50,000-square-foot build-to-suit facility for Option Care Health Inc. in Itasca. Quadrangle Development Co. and Janko Group are the project developers. Approximately 55 percent of the single-story building will house office space, while the remaining portion will incorporate pharmacy ambulatory suites and support spaces. The building’s warehouse areas will feature two walk-in coolers and freezers, with two truck docks and two drive-in doors. Completion is slated for June. Wright Heerema Architects and Whitney Architects make up the project team. JLL represented the tenant. Option Care is an independent, national provider of home and alternate site infusion therapy services.

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GURNEE, ILL. — Cushman & Wakefield’s Midwest Multifamily Advisory Group has arranged the $9.6 million sale of Carriage House Apartments in Gurnee, about 40 miles north of Chicago. Constructed in the 1970s, the 17-building, 136-unit workforce housing property is located at 4344 McClure Ave. Brad Smith, Jason Stevens and Todd Stofflet of Cushman & Wakefield represented the seller, California-based Steadfast Apartment REIT III Inc. Wisconsin-based GP Property Management purchased the asset. Steadfast had acquired the property in 2016 and completed unit upgrades. The new owners are planning additional improvements. At the time of sale, the property was 97 percent occupied. Workforce housing refers to housing that is affordable to households earning 60 to 120 percent of the area median income, according to the Urban Land Institute. It’s often utilized for public employees, such as teachers, police officers and firefighters.

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CHICAGO — Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams has signed a lease for 1,556 square feet of ground-floor retail space at Logan Apartments in Chicago’s Logan Square. The new apartment development is located at 2480-2522 N. Milwaukee Ave. Jeni’s joins Target and Big Wig Tacos at the project. Jeni’s Logan Square location, its eighth Chicago-area store, is expected to open this summer. Logan Apartments is slated to open in March. Fifield Cos. is the project developer.

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SCHAUMBURG, ILL. — Marcus & Millichap has brokered the sale of a 5,145-square-foot property net leased to Jason’s Deli in Schaumburg for $2.7 million. The building is located at 1530 McConnor Parkway. It was constructed as a build-to-suit for Jason’s Deli in 2011. There are three years remaining on the lease. Austin Weisenbeck, Sean Sharko and Brian Munn of Marcus & Millichap marketed the property on behalf of the seller, a limited liability company. Joseph Sigal of Marcus & Millichap represented the buyer, a private investor.

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