Welcome To The Real Finds Blog: Commercial Real Estate Insights for Chicago and the Midwest
Welcome to The Real Finds Blog, your daily briefing on commercial real estate trends across Chicagoland and the Midwest. Published by Gordon Lamphere, a fourth-generation commercial real estate broker at Van Vlissingen & Co., this blog delivers sharp, actionable insights for CRE professionals navigating a changing market. Every article connects macro trends—interest rates, automation, supply chains, policy shifts—to local real estate strategy across high-demand submarkets, including:
- Downtown Chicago – office space, adaptive reuse, capital markets
- Elk Grove & O’Hare – industrial leasing, logistics infrastructure
- Kenosha & SE Wisconsin – warehouse development and distribution hubs
- Oak Brook & Schaumburg – suburban office leasing and reinvestment
- Naperville & the I-88 Corridor – flex space, R&D, life sciences
- Bolingbrook & the I-55 Corridor – fulfillment centers and industrial site selection
- Lake, DuPage, Will, Kane, and McHenry Counties – land use, entitlements, development opportunities, and tenant migration
From daily blog posts to in-depth strategy guides and transcribed podcast interviews, Real Finds turns global uncertainty into hyper-local market intelligence for investors, landlords, tenants, developers, and brokers New posts are published every weekday.
Focus Products Group, LLC Leases Space in 300 Knightsbridge Parkway
Focus Products Group, LLC, a design and marketing company for hospitality, food service and culinary products relocated to 23,870 sq....
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Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin Relocates to The Corporate Woods
Children's Physician Group P.C., an entity of Milwaukee-based Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, recently consolidated its Illinois operations into a new...
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Forsythe Solutions Leases Office Space in One Overlook Point, Lincolnshire Corporate Center
Forsythe Solutions Group, Inc., a provider of technology infrastructure solutions recently leased 16,630 sq. ft. of Class A Office...
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Pure Health Solutions, Inc. and USG Corporation Sign Lease
Pure Health Solutions, Inc., a provider of point of use water purification systems for better than bottled water leased 8,851...
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Vernon Hills Cougars Youth Athletic Association Opens New Corporate Woods Facility
Vernon Hills Cougars Youth Athletic Association Opens New Corporate Woods Facility Vernon Hills Cougars Youth Athletic Association (VHCYAA), recently leased...
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Adversity Volleyball Opens in The Corporate Woods
Adversity VBC, Inc., a non-profit boys youth volleyball association, recently leased 50,784 sq. ft. at 700-710 Corporate Woods Parkway in...
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Van Vlissingen Breaks Ground On ZF Industries Expansion
Van Vlissingen Breaks Ground On ZF Industries Expansion VERNON HILLS, IL - Van Vlissingen and Co. (Lincolnshire, IL), developers and...
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