DarwinPW Realty/CORFAC International Associate Laura Perlman was recently featured on REJournals.com. The publication interviewed Ms. Perlman as a part of its series on CRE Future Leaders. Read what she had to say: https://rejournals.com/cre-future-leaders-darwinpw-realty-corfac-internationals-laura-perlman/
Principal Ed Wabick and Associate Marc Hale represented the building owners, The Missner Group and RealTerm Logistics, in their lease of 51,318 square feet of space at 4400 Homerlee in East Chicago, IN, to Mazzella Lifting Technologies Inc. The new tenant is a manufacturer and supplier of industrial lifting products and is relocating from their previous location in Romeoville to a newly constructed building that offers tax savings in Indiana.
The 249,600-square-foot building was completed in 2022. It sits on 14.5 acres and features 20 exterior docks, 35 trailer parking stalls, and 286 car parking spots. It has 32-foot clear height and offers easy access to I-90 and I-80/94. After sitting vacant for years and then undergoing extensive environmental remediation, the site became the first-ever spec industrial building in East Chicago. Its neighbors include FedEx, Walmart, Citgo, BP, and ArcelorMittal.
National Lease Advisors, Inc. represented Mazzella Lifting Technologies in the transaction.
DarwinPW Realty/CORFAC International is pleased to announce that Thomas Engel has joined the firm as an associate. In his new role, Mr. Engel will be responsible for ownership representation, tenant and buyer representation, and investment analysis with a focus on the O’Hare area.
(Elmhurst, Illinois – JUNE 22, 2022) – Darwin Realty/CORFAC International today announces that beginning July 1, the Chicago-based PW Commercial Real Estate/TCN Worldwide team will join their firm. Following the merger, Darwin Realty/CORFAC International will change its name to DarwinPW Realty. PW Commercial Real Estate’s eight brokers and two staff members will move to the Elmhurst headquarters, and the DarwinPW Realty team expands to 20+ brokers. In 1975, the two firms each started as offshoots of Pain & Sutherlin and are now reuniting to expand market reach and provide shared expertise. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – May 11, 2022) – Darwin Realty/CORFAC International is pleased to announce that Chris Mergenthaler has been promoted to vice president. Mr. Mergenthaler joined the team as an associate in 2017. For the past five years, Mr. Mergenthaler has worked closely with Rick Daly in the West Cook and O’Hare industrial submarkets offering a range of services including tenant representation, owner representation, build-to-suit project, site acquisitions and investment acquisitions and dispositions.
“Chris has been involved in many significant transactions at Darwin and has made a great impact on our West Cook and O’Hare industrial team,” says Darwin President Rick Daly. “We’re looking forward to seeing how he does in a more leadership oriented role as he moves forward in his career.”
A Chicago native, Mr. Mergenthaler joined Darwin after graduating from Florida State University with a degree in Finance and Entrepreneurship. Outside of his work in real estate, Chris is an avid outdoorsman; especially enjoying hiking, fishing, and skiing.
(Elmhurst, Illinois) September 15, 2020 – Darwin Realty/CORFAC International is pleased to announce that Speedwagon Capital Partners, a Chicago-based private real estate investment firm has purchased an interest in a real estate portfolio owned by industrial real estate veterans George Cibula and Matt Lewandowski of Darwin Realty/CORFAC International. The industrial real estate portfolio was valued at $130 million and consists of 2.2 million square feet across 41 buildings located in the greater Chicagoland area and southern Wisconsin. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – July 10, 2017) –Darwin Realty executives recently donated a day of their time working at Lambs Farm, a non-profit organization that provides residences and jobs for adults with disabilities, in Libertyville, IL. A group of over 20 Darwin Realty team members that included brokers, construction department associates, property managers and administrative staff, worked with Lambs Farm to paint the Magnolia Café building, an on-site restaurant that employs many of its residents, and updated landscaping on the facility’s grounds.
“We were looking for an opportunity where we could really make a difference and helping Lambs Farm beautify this property was a good fit for our company,” said Rick Daly, Darwin President. “It was a great way to get out of our regular routine and give back to the community.”
Lambs Farm has been helping people with developmental disabilities lead productive, happy lives and connecting with the human spirit since 1961. The organization started as a pet store on State Street in Chicago that employed people with disabilities. In 1965, its founders moved the organization to a 70-acre farm where 250 people with developmental disabilities live and/or work in a nurturing, helpful environment.
This is Darwin’s fifth semi-annual philanthropic volunteer day. Darwin selected Lambs Farm as their Spring/Summer charity because they wanted to support a local, small business non-profit with a similar family culture to their own company.
Darwin Realty’s Dan Predergast was recently quoted in a Globe Street article about a building sale in Northbrook . Read the entire article by clicking the link below:
(Elmhurst, Illinois – February 10, 2016) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Welbic LLC has purchased 15 industrial properties from Venture One Real Estate. These properties contain approximately 900,000 square feet of buildings located from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Alsip, Illinois. There are 22 tenants that occupy the 15 buildings. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – December 11, 2015) Principal Dan Fanelli, SIOR, and Managing Broker eorge Cibula, SIOR, of Darwin Realty have completed two renewal leases at a two-tenant property at 2101-2171 W. Cermak Road in Broadview, IL. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – June 5, 2015) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Darwin’s Rick Daly represented the seller, CenterPoint Properties, in the investment sale of a 263,668-square-foot building located at 2425-2553 Edington Street in Franklin Park, Illinois to a private investor who is expanding their portfolio. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – June 5, 2015) – Darwin Realty announces a 52,000 square foot lease at 2553 Edgington Street in Franklin Park. This space is part of a multi-tenant building owned and managed by CenterPoint Properties. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois – June 2015) – Richard G. Daly, President of Darwin Realty, recently represented Duke Realty in the leasing of 515 Crossroads Parkway in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
515 Crossroads is a free-standing building totaling 145,000 square feet located in Crossroads Business Park. Features include 12,000 square feet of office space, 24’ ceiling height, and 7 loading docks. (more…)
Site features outside storage for equipment
Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Darwin Principal Dan Fanelli, SIOR, and Chairman George Cibula, SIOR, represented Arrow Pneumatics, Inc., in a long-term lease renewal for 43,175 square feet at 2109-2111 21st Street, Broadview, Illinois. (more…)
Furniture distributor needed more space for expansion
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Darwin President Richard G. Daly, SIOR, represented TA Associates Realty in the lease of 25,573 square feet at 1757 Marshall Drive, Des Plaines, Illinois, to Deco Salon Furniture, Inc. Deco Salon Furniture, a furniture distribution company, was represented by Ryan Phillips and John Joyce of Transwestern. (more…)
The company leased 44,288 square feet for CenterPoint Properties
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Dan Prendergast of Darwin Realty represented CenterPoint Properties in the long term lease of 44,288 square feet at 3712 Jarvis Avenue, Skokie to Eco-Brite Linens. (more…)
Expanding firm needed additional space
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Dan Fanelli, Principal of Darwin Realty represented both the tenant and landlord in a 1,500-square-foot lease. (more…)
Brokerage team inks nearly 400,000 square feet in new deals
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that the firm has recently completed 393,000 square feet of transactions on behalf of client TA Associates including one of the largest industrial leases in 2014 in the O’Hare submarket. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce he sale of a 1,500-square-foot industrial condo unit, #208, at 820 West Lake Street, Roselle, Illinois, to Mas Plumbing which will use the facility as a base of operations for the firm’s plumbing business. (more…)
Expanding industrial firm to build new facility in Cook County
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Chairman George Cibula, SIOR, represented both the buyer and the private seller in the acquisition of 7035 West 65th Street in Bedford Park, Illinois, a 437,910-square-foot industrial facility on 13 acres. (more…)
Building is headquarters for national leader in bowling bags
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Darwin Chairman George J. Cibula and Principal Dan Fanelli represented both the landlord, GIS Rolling LLC, and the tenant, Strikeforce Bowling LLC, in the long-term lease renewal at 2001 Parkes Drive, in Broadview, Illinois. Strikeforce leased all of the 53,284-square-foot building, which is on 2.7 acres. The facility is the headquarters for Strikeforce and includes manufacturing and distribution. (more…)
DuPage property offers flexibility in zoning and opportunity along Ogden Avenue
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty is pleased to announce Darwin Chairman George J. Cibula represented a private investor in the sale of 50 West Ogden Avenue in Westmont, Illinois. The 23,164-square-foot building is on 2.29 acres. The buyer, Breen Horizon LLC, which plans to lease the property, was represented by Brian Butler of The Butler Group.
Darwin Realty represented buyer in purchase of Pactiv and FedEx facilities
(Elmhurst, Illinois) –Welbic Investments, announced today that the company has refinanced a 1.4 million square foot, 27-building portfolio, including two new buildings the investment company recently purchased. The portfolio includes both industrial and office properties with more than 100 tenants located throughout the Chicagoland area and Southeastern Wisconsin. (more…)
Darwin Realty represented the building owner, Welbic Investments
(Elmhurst, Illinois) –Darwin Realty and Welbic Investments are pleased to announce that Grane Transporation has renewed its lease of the entire 174,824 square foot facility located at 703 Foster Avenue in Bensenville, Illinois. (more…)
Darwin Realty is pleased to announce that Darwin President Richard G. Daly, SIOR, represented iD Commerce + Logistics in their lease of 101,513 square feet of space within a 135,526-square-foot industrial building at 80 Internationale Boulevard in Glendale Heights, Illinois. (more…)
A 319,683 SF facility in University Park, IL
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty today announces that the firm has brokered the sale of a 319,683 square foot industrial building located at 2635 Federal Signal Drive in University Park, Illinois. This is one of the largest industrial sales to a user in Will County in 2014. (more…)
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty today announces that the firm has represented a private investment group in the sale of a 51,023 square foot building on 2.34 acres located at 945 Larch Avenue in Elmhurst, Illinois. (more…)
Darwin represents the buyer in 113,643 SF industrial building
(Elmhurst, Illinois) – Darwin Realty today announces that Dan Fanelli, SIOR of the firm has represented Sterling Spring Corporation in the purchase of a 113,634 square foot building on 3.68 acres at 7171 W. 65th Street in Bedford Park, Illinois. (more…)