HSA Commercial profiles a broker at our firm each month as part of our HSA News & Views blog. In this edition, we talk with Brad Borkowski, associate with the Industrial Services Division.  Brad started five years ago as an intern at HSA but has leveraged his personal knowledge and experience in the logistics industry […]

In its December 2011 issue, Midwest Real Estate News named HSA Commercial’s chairman and founder, Jack Shaffer, to its Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame. Midwest Real Estate News’ editor Dan Rafter wrote the following of Jack’s long, illustrious career in real estate: “With his long history of tackling the most prominent projects in Chicago […]

Jack Shaffer, chairman and founder of HSA Commercial Real Estate, today announced that HSA Commercial Inc. has purchased a 300,000-square-foot warehouse facility in the Airport Business Park of Des Moines International Airport in Iowa. The building, which was developed as a build-to-suit by The Opus Group, is fully-leased to a Fortune 10 company and connects […]

Event Information: January 19th, 2012 at 7 am Donald E. Stephens Convention Center 5555 N. River Road, Rosemont Price: $49 Sign Up Bob Smietana, Vice Chairman and CEO of HSA Commercial, will be a panel speaker at BISNOW’s Chicago Industrial Summit in January. Panelists at the Industrial Summit event will include: Johannson Yap of First […]

Tim Thompson, executive vice president and managing director of HSA’s Industrial Services Division, authored an article for this month’s Benuzzi’s Industrial Guide describing the changing dynamic in business park leasing. Today, the market dynamic has changed, as uncertainty about fluctuating fuel prices and direction of the economy have made these exurban sites less desirable than […]

Starting this month, HSA Commercial will profile a broker at our firm each month as part of our HSA News & Views blog. In this edition, we look at Tim Thompson, executive vice president and managing director of the Industrial Services Division. Thompson is a former president of the Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers […]

HSA Commercial’s corporate and division leadership was profiled in the October 2011 edition of the Illinois Real Estate Journal. The Journal’s Mark Thomton explores the company’s mission as a diversified, full-service real estate firm and how HSA’s leadership has maintained and built upon that strategy over a distinguished 30 year history. Sometimes it’s not the […]

Illinois Real Estate Journal reported today that HSA Commercial has completed a six-building, $80.5M portfolio sale to Industrial Income Trust, a Denver-based REIT. The properties, owned by HSA Commercial and Bridge Development Partners, total approximately 1.1 million-square-feet and are 86 percent leased to 18 tenants including Walgreens, Ace Hardware, Nestle Waters, and Goodyear. Four of […]

Tim Thompson, executive vice president and managing director of the Industrial Brokerage division, and Brad Borkowski, broker, represented  Midwest Warehouse & Distribution System, in a lease for the entire 404,052-square-foot building, at 555 St. James Gate, Bolingbrook, Ill. and a 174,178-square-foot lease renewal at 500 Country Club Drive, Bensenville, Ill. Midwest Warehouse, a third-party logistics […]

Brad Borkowski, broker with the Industrial Brokerage division, represented Best Warehousing & Transportation Center Inc., in a 56,051-square-foot lease at 1801 Hawthorne Lane in West Chicago, Ill. The west suburban location is the logistics company’s first in Illinois. Atlanta-based Best Warehousing & Transportation Center Inc. is a third-party logistics firm specializing in full-service, client-specific solutions. […]