HSA COMMERCIAL SECURES TWO CHICAGO MEDICAL OFFICE LEASES

Roger Knigge represents ownership in Lemont and Downers Grove

August 9, 2009

Roger Knigge, Senior Vice President, HSA Commercial, announced the completion of a new medical office lease in Lemont and a lease renewal in Downers Grove in Chicago's southwest suburbs.

Lemont - Knigge represented 15900 W. 127th Street, Lemont, IL., in negotiations for the lease of 3,216 square feet of space to Lemont Medical SC. Lemont Medical is a physician practice offering internal medicine services. Knigge is the exclusive leasing agent for the property, a 38,882-square-foot medical office building developed by HSA PrimeCare. Good Samaritan Hospital's walk-in care center occupies a portion of the facility, which also houses complementary physician specialties including gastroenterology, cardiology, ophthalmology, and immunology.

Downers Grove - Knigge represented Greenbriar Medical Office Building at 6800 S. Main Street in negotiations for the lease renewal for 3,070 square feet of space to Taek Y Kim, MD, a medical practice specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. HSA PrimeCare acquire the three-story 37,780-square-foot facility in 2007. HSA PrimeCare also acquired a 2.5-acre adjacent land parcel, where the firm subsequently developed a two-story, 35,000-square-foot medical office buliding. The two properties comprise Advocate Good Samaritan-South Campus.

HSA PrimeCare, an operating division of HSA Commercial Real Estate, is focused on real estate assets for the healthcare industry and is a leading developer and manager of medical office buldings in the Midwest, with a portfolio of properties totaling more than 700.000 square feet and valued at more than $160 million.

Founded in 1981, Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate is a diversified, full-service real estate firm specializing in office, industrial, retail, and health care real estate leasing, management, marketing, development and financing on a national basis. Along with developing and acquiring more than 40 million square feet of commercial real estate across the United States, with a total consideration in excess of $2 billion, HSA Commercial Real Estate has represented owners and tenants in more than 10,000 transactions in 43 states; manages a property portfolio in excess of 15 million square feet in locations across the nation; and owns more than 17 million square feet of commercial property in 14 states.