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Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards

The Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards celebrate the achievements of the premier commercial real estate firms — and help end hunger.

37th Annual Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards

This year’s Commercial Real Estate Awards were hosted at the Salt Shed on Wednesday, April 23, 2025. It was a fun-filled evening featuring networking, a cocktail reception, awards ceremony and more! 

In a city renowned for its soaring architecture, premier commercial real estate firms gather annually to celebrate achievements — and to end hunger. The annual Chicago Commercial Real Estate Awards bring together more than 1,800 of Chicago’s top architects, brokers, developers, property managers, contractors and design professionals to celebrate outstanding achievements in all facets of the commercial real estate industry and to support the Greater Chicago Food Depository. This partnership truly helps build a better Chicago. This year’s event raised $1.1M to provide 3.3 million meals for our neighbors. 

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37th Annual Commercial Real Estate Award Winners

ADAPTIVE REUSE OF THE YEAR 

RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center at Rush Lisle (Leopardo Construction) 

ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR 

Partners by Design 

COMMUNITY IMPACT PROJECT OF THE YEAR: 

Roseland Medical Center Acquisition and Community Investment Vehicle (Chicago TREND Corporation) 

CONTRACTOR – GENERAL OF THE YEAR: 

McShane Construction Company

CONTRACTOR – INDUSTRIAL OF THE YEAR: 

Morgan / Harbour Construction 

CONTRACTOR – INTERIOR OF THE YEAR: 

Executive Construction Inc. 

DEAL OF THE YEAR – CAPITAL MARKETS: * 

The Jeweler's Building (The Prime Group, Inc., Newmark and CRG) 

*We would like to congratulate Newmark on their role in the Jeweler’s Building acquisition. Regretfully, they were omitted from the nomination.

DEAL OF THE YEAR – INDUSTRIAL 

Venture Park 47 (Venture One Real Estate)  

DEAL OF THE YEAR – OFFICE 

Sargent & Lundy Headquarters Relocation (Savills and CBRE) 

DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR 

The Prime Group, Inc. 

DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR: *  

360 N Green (Sterling Bay, Power Construction, Gensler and Sterling Bay Design Studio) 

*It has come to our attention that there was an unfortunate error during the April 23 awards which incorrectly identified the architect of the RIU Hotel Chicago. Lucien Lagrange is the architect of the RIU Hotel Chicago. We respectfully offer an apology to Lucien Lagrange and request all marketing pertaining to this be corrected for the future.

ENGINEER OF THE YEAR: 

Stantec Consulting Services 

HEALTHCARE/LIFE SCIENCES DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR 

Valent BioSciences - Biorational Research Center Expansion (HOK Architects, Leopardo Construction and Valent BioSciences) 

INDUSTRIAL BROKER OF THE YEAR 

Chicago Industrial Advisors Team (Cushman & Wakefield) 

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR 

1237 W. Division (Logistics Property Company, Ware Malcomb and Walsh Construction)

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTMENT BROKER OF THE YEAR 

Michael Caprile, Ryan Bain, Zach Graham and Joe Horrigan (CBRE) 

INTERIOR DESIGN FIRM OF THE YEAR 

Partners by Design 

MULTI-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR 

1000M (Time Equities & JK Equities, Jahn/ and McHugh Construction) 

OFFICE LANDLORD BROKER OF THE YEAR 

Mike Kazmierczak, Kelsey Scheive and Aaron Schuster (CBRE) 

OFFICE TENANT BROKER OF THE YEAR 

Learner-Sevim Tenant Advisory Team (Savills) 

PRIVATE CAPITAL MARKETS INVESTMENT BROKER OF THE YEAR 

Jason St. John, Danny Spitz, Brewster Hague, Jordan Multack (Greenstone Partners)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FIRM OF THE YEAR 

Spark 

PROJECT MANAGER OF THE YEAR 

Leah George (ARCO/Murray) 

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY OF THE YEAR 

Hines 

REPOSITION OF THE YEAR 

10 & 120 S. Riverside Plaza - Redevelopment Phases I & II (Hines) 

RETAIL BROKER OF THE YEAR: 

Luke Molloy, Danny Jacobson, and Meredith Oliver (CBRE) 

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE YEAR: 

Nourish Project (BOS / Haworth, Buro Happold, Clayco, Corporate Concepts / Knoll, Development Solutions Inc, DLA Piper, D.U.S. Management, Inc., Elkay Manufacturing Company, Haworth, Inc., Henricksen/Allsteel, Herman Miller, JLL, Middleby, Partners by Design, Pepper Construction, Rex Electric, Salas O’Brien, Skender, Spark, Stantec (ESD), TGRWA, V3, Whitney and Zeller) 

GAME CHANGER: 

Lori Healey 

 

Frequently Asked Questions About the Commercial Real Estate Awards

To learn more about available sponsorship opportunities, contact [email protected].

Voting results will be announced at the event and posted on the event website the following day.

The Blue Ribbon Panel includes executive members from the Commercial Real Estate Awards Steering Committee, winners of the previous year's awards and selected local real estate representatives from municipalities, academia and/or businesses. The Blue Ribbon Panel selects awards finalists from all submitted nominations using a thorough review and voting process.

Using their industry knowledge and expertise, the Blue Ribbon Panel reviews the award submissions to determine which entries merit finalist status. The Panel then votes via secret ballot to select finalists for each award category.

The Steering Committee is comprised of real estate professionals who volunteer their time to support the planning of the Commercial Real Estate Awards. For additional information or to get involved, please send us a message.

Steering Committee

Event Chair

Josie Peacock, Birge & Held

Event Vice-Chair

Sheila Sipes, Whitney Architects

Executive Committee

Margie Baran, JLL

Brian Brodeur, Free Agent

Andy Christensen, Partners by Design

Tom Jaros, Levenfeld Pearlstein

Tony Smaniotto, Pepper Construction

Blue Ribbon Panel Chair / Advisory Committee

Mariah DiGrino, DLA Piper, LLP

Advisory Committee

Shawn Clark, CRG

Collete English Dixon, Roosevelt University

Mary Esche, Whitney Architects

Lee Golub, Golub

Danny Nikitas, Avison Young

Robert Sevim, Savills Studley

Todd Siegel, CBRE

Regina Stilp, FarPoint

Damona Strautmanis

Greg Warsek, Associated Bank

Brian Whiting, Telos

Members

Javid Aboutorabi, Clark Construction

Megan Barker, Cushman & Wakefield

Nick Beard, DLA Piper, LLP

Michael Berger, Lumen

Cortney Boswell, GI Stone

Rob Burda, Associated Bank

Walter Burnett

Charlie Cunov

Ryan DePasquale, Starbucks

Mark Dillon, Corporate Concepts

Matt Dittman, CRG

Nelson Francis, Clune Construction

Steve Golz, Tishman

Jack Hennessey, Link Logistics

David Hopwood, JLL

Corinth Jackson, Obama Foundation

Matt Kaleta, Syska Hennessy

Steve Kiley, CBRE

Kristen Kleinops, Teknion

Linda Kozloski, Weldon Development Group

Mike Lombardo, Blue Star

Lauren Lowery, FP Commercial Advisors

Felix Martinez, Wyzendale

Tyrell McGee, SAB Capital

Brian Means, JLL

Nick Minella, Plan North Construction

Ryan Moore, Prime Group

Taylor Murphy, Henricksen

Elizabeth O'Brien, Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Janette Outlaw, Interior Investments

Brian Quigley, Conor Commercial Real Estate

Hanna Rasche, Becknell Industrial

Aslam Rawoof, Benesch Law

Carla Robles, Polsinelli

Marco Rodriguez, JLL

Ginna Ryan, Mauge

Paul Tesdal, Lancarte

Matthias Trizna, Northern Builders

Cory Welper, Bridge Industrial

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

 

 

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Several fresh, halved avocados.

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