Hillwood Ready for Major Chicago Expansion
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CHICAGO—Hillwood Investment Properties, a Perot company, has just acquired through its US Industrial Fund IIthree class A industrial properties in southwest suburban Tinley Park totaling 170,000 square feet, the latest of its moves to build up a significant platform in the Chicago region. In addition, company officials tell GlobeSt.com that within the next four to six weeks, the Dallas-based firm will have more than one million square feet of new industrial space under construction here.
“Our strategy is to both develop and acquire,” says Don Schoenheider, Hillwood’s senior vice president. The company, which opened a Chicago-based office earlier this year, recently acquired 39 acres at Pinnacle Business Park in suburban Romeoville and later this summer will begin breaking ground on what will eventually be four class A industrial buildings totaling 638,110 square feet. The company also has some as-yet-unannounced projects that will push it over the one-million mark…