November 2014

REfocus: Suburban Office Build-to-Suits

Development Returns to Chicago’s Suburban Office Market

A lack of quality large blocks of space and aging buildings has resulted in the return of new construction projects to Chicago’s suburban office market for the first time in nearly seven years.
 
Dan O’Neill, executive vice president of NAI Hiffman’s office services group, discusses the ongoing and announced projects, while taking a detailed look at the market conditions in the East-West Corridor office market behind this surge in development activity and when to expect new speculative construction.

Click the video below to view Dan’s full analysis.

 

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