A PASSION FOR (REAL ESTATE) BUSINESS
Lawyers are like most other business professionals. We want your business and we want your referrals – we just don’t always know the best way to ask for either. Take me for example. I’ve been handling commercial real estate transactions and business…
NEW BOOK – Illinois Commercial Real Estate
I’m happy to announce that the website for my new book, Illinois Commercial Real Estate is now live. Visit www.Illinois-CRE.com for a book excerpt. Illinois Commercial Real Estate, Due Diligence to Closing, with Checklists, is intended as a…
AIR RIGHTS DEVELOPMENT – Chicago, Illinois
WHY DEVELOP AIR RIGHTS? Prime commercial land is limited. Prices per square foot can be astronomical. Demand for efficiency to maximize return on investment is growing. No wonder developers and property owners are looking to the sky, with varying degrees…
DUE DILIGENCE CHECKLISTS for Commercial Real Estate Transactions
2016 Updat Are you planning to purchase, finance, develop or redevelop any of the following types of commercial real estate in the USA? A KEY element of successfully investing in commercial real estate is performing an adequate Due Diligence…
10 Things to Know About Commercial Real Estate Development Agreements
I was invited recently to speak at the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education Annual Real Estate Short Course to discuss what every lawyer should know about commercial real estate development agreements. In preparing for the presentation,…
Cities Shooting Economic Development in the Foot
NOTICE TO MUNICIPALITIES: If you want economic development, ACT LIKE IT! Sometimes, municipalities can be their own worst enemies when it comes to economic development. At best, things they sometimes do, or don’t do, evidence disinterest, if…
WANTED: REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER
MONEE, ILLINOIS IS IN SEARCH OF A COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER – AND WILL PROVIDE ECONOMIC INCENTIVES This post is intended to serve two purposes: Let me first say that I am not a real estate broker or real estate developer, I don’t own land in…
IN PRAISE OF REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS – Let’s Do Lunch!
This article is being republished as a welcoming salutation to many of my long-lost Real Estate Developer friends. You have been missed over the past several years. Call me. Let’s do lunch! Did I happen to mention I love Real Estate…
Maximizing The Third Space – A Key ICSC RECon 2013 Takeaway
Questions abound about where our commercial real estate market is headed. As many suspect, where we were prior to the Great Recession is not where we are now, and not where we’re headed as we move forward. Things have changed. We have entered an…
ICSC RECON 2013 UPDATE – Things Are Happening Now!
May 20, 2013. ICSC RECON UPDATE. Today was an exhausting but productive day. My Fitbit recorded nearly 20,000 steps, or roughly 8.75 miles covered. My feet hurt, so I believe it. It was great to see friendly, familiar faces, from past and present –…