In honor of Read Across America Day, a nationwide reading celebration that takes place on Dr. Seuss’ birthday, the HSAwareness team worked to support literacy in Chicago Public Schools by collecting children’s books for the library of Gillespie Technology Magnet School in the Roseland, neighborhood of Chicago. Through monetary and book donations, HSA employees were […]

A joint real estate fund formed by commercial mortgage lending specialists, Innovative Capital Advisors (ICA), and Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate, a full-service real estate firm, recently purchased the Schwaab Stamp Factory building located at the southwest corner of Burleigh Street and 114th Street across from The Mayfair Collection in Wauwatosa, Wis. HSA Commercial plans […]

After a very busy 2014 in which HSA Commercial Real Estate advanced or completed numerous projects, HSA’s CEO Bob Smietana shares his expectations for the firm in 2015 in an interview video featured on YouTube. After completing a few industrial spec projects last year, Bob says that he anticipates the firm breaking ground on as […]

HSA PrimeCare has just released the first episode in its new informational series, Ask an Advisor! Watch interviews with HSA PrimeCare team members, in which they discuss topics related to healthcare real estate brokerage, acquisition, and development. The question featured in our first episode asks, “What recent changes have you seen in the real estate […]

HSA Commercial announced today that the firm has started construction on a new 50,000-square-foot regional distribution center for Carrier at 60 Airways Boulevard in Nashville, Tenn. Carrier, a leading manufacturer and distributor of heating, air-conditioning and refrigeration products, is scheduled to take occupancy of the new facility in spring 2015. Carrier’s distribution center, to be […]

Just in time for Thanksgiving, a team of volunteers led by HSA senior vice president Josephine Thomas-Hoytt, worked together with the firm’s long-time partner Chicago Commons to provide toys, winter coats, hats, gloves, and scarves to families-in-need. Participants—both inside and outside of the company—offered monetary contributions for HSAwareness volunteers to shop with, while others chose […]

Click here to explore HSA’s Delany Commerce Center as featured in a new video taken by HSA’s drone camera! HSA Commercial, in partnership with Great Point Investors LLC, recently completed development of the Delany Commerce Center. The new 218,500-square-foot facility, just off Highway 41 on Delany Road, offers prospective tenants the rare opportunity to locate […]

It’s with a heavy heart that we report that Dave Keady, 51, senior vice president with the Retail Division of HSA Commercial Real Estate, passed away yesterday morning. A 15-year veteran of HSA, Dave will be remembered as a diligent, sharp-witted broker who worked painstakingly to ensure that the hardest deals were done right, and […]

Dan Miranda, president of HSA Commercial Real Estate, and John Wilson, president of HSA PrimeCare, announced today the completion of the vault expansion at the University of Chicago Medicine’s 24,150 square foot Comprehensive Cancer Center. Developed by HSA PrimeCare and located on the Silver Cross Hospital Campus in New Lenox, Ill., the expansion includes a […]

In a newly published article in Illinois Real Estate Journal, HSA PrimeCare president John Wilson outlines the complexities involved in developing healthcare facilities in an age in which patients expect the highest levels of convenience and comfort. Wilson identifies expanding service offerings, bundling of services within multispecialty facilities, and retail-format clinics as key strategies with […]