About

Steve is a corporate real estate advisor with 13 years of experience, focusing primarily on developing strategic real estate plans, tenant and owner representation, build-to-suit advisory, and site, building and investment acquisitions and dispositions. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Steve worked at Newmark Knight Frank Epic and Transwestern. Steve’s attention to detail and focus on identifying the real problems that clients face upfront, allows him to establish an effective process through which even the toughest business challenges can be solved. “Real estate is just one of many line items that businesses need to address. The best solution is not always as simple as trading bricks and mortar for different bricks and mortar. To ignore the other pressures that a business may face, means that you will almost never arrive at the best solution.” Steve’s ability to relate to and understand his client’s thinking while anticipating their concerns has proven extremely effective in building quality, long-term relationships and has allowed him to represent some of the most complicated and high-profile transactions in the market.

Clients

• Avery Dennison
• Chicago Tribune
• All Tile
• Duravant
• Eby-Brown
• Prologis
• Bridge Industrial
• Tradelane Properties
• Molto Properties
• Westmount Realty Capital
• Dayton Street Partners
• Hillwood
• ML Realty Partners

Assignments

• National consolidation of 5 facilities to a 250,000 sf global Packaging headquarters and manufacturing center for Duravant (nVenia) in Wood Dale, IL
• Alltile/CCS headquarters relocation to a 207,000 sf facility in Wood Dale, IL
• Assemblage of 107 residential homes for redevelopment to industrial on behalf of Prologis in Bensenville, which won the NAIOP 2022 Industrial Redevelopment of the Year
• Leasing of a 364,000 sf building in Bensenville to UPS on behalf of Prologis
• Leasing of a 289,000 sf building in Bensenville to Kuehne + Nagel on behalf of Prologis
• Sale of a 218,000 sf building in DuPage County Elk Grove Village to ML Realty Partners
• Sale of a 231,000 sf building in Gurnee, IL to an apparel company on behalf of purchaser
• Lease for 202,000 sf in Lincolnwood to Cubework on behalf of property ownership
• Leasing a 237,000 sf building in Skokie to an undisclosed E-Commerce company on behalf of Hillwood
• Various lease and purchase transactions on behalf of Avery Dennison totalling over 200,000 sf
• Sale of former Motorola headquarters in Franklin Park, 756,000 sf on 18.5 acres
• MFRI, Inc. global headquarter relocation and portfolio realignment (275,000 sf in total)
• Sale of 7720 Lehigh, Niles for redevelopment to Molto Properties
• Sale of 3300 Oakton, Skokie to Clark Street to redevelopment for Floor & Décor
• Sale of former Shure Brothers headquarters in Evanston to Autobarn for redevelopment
• Various leases for Eby-Brown (over 1,000,000 sf in total)

Affiliations

• Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers
• Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
• On the Board of NAIOP

Education

• B.S Degree from University of Illinois

• Currently holds a real estate license in Illinois and Wisconsin