Subject: Midwest Regional Digest (MWDIG)

February 21, 2002 Zone change would limit size of hotel in ChicagoChicago Sun TimesCHICAGO – Under a zoning change advanced by a City Council committee yesterday, Adams Mark Hotels & Resorts would have to slash the size of a hotel ...

February 19, 2002 Chicago condo development project in financing cornerThe Chicago TribuneCHICAGO – Over the next eight months, B.J. Spathies' total sales at the Residences of RiverBend must nearly equal the $61.8 million in sales she made during more than ...

February 12, 2002 DoubleTree proposed near office park in Menomonee Falls, Wisc.Milwaukee Journal SentinelMENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. – Southern Wisconsin Development LLC will begin construction in the spring of a $20 million hotel and conference center near Woodland Prime Office Park. ...

February 8, 2002 Georgia-Pacific renews 574,000sf in Bolingbrook, Ill. BOLINGBROOK, Ill. – Georgia-Pacific Corp. has renewed its lease for 574,000 square feet of industrial space at 333 Gibraltar. The long-term lease is valued at $8 million. Atlanta-based Georgia-Pacific has used ...

February 4, 2002 TV production site for sale in ChicagoCrain's Chicago Business, February 3CHICAGO – Studio Rentals Inc. of Chicago has hired Insignia/ESG Inc. to sell Chicago Studio City, the 30-acre site where such television shows as "ER" have been ...

February 1, 2002 GE Medical looking for 150,000 sf in MilwaukeeMilwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE – GE Medical Systems is looking for at least 150,000 square feet for its information technologies, which now operates out of a 300,000-sf building at 8200 ...

January 31, 2002 Unilever to close Chicago distribution centerChicago Sun TimesCHICAGO – Unilever will close a distribution center at 1401 N. Cicero Ave. next year because it is moving the work to more modern warehouses. The closure was prompted by ...

January 29, 2002 Cincinnati has lowest hotel occupancy rate in USCincinnati EnquirerCINCINNATI – Greater Cincinnati hotels in 2001 had the lowest occupancy rate of any large metropolitan region in the United States, according to Smith Travel Research. Cincinnati posted occupancy ...

January 28, 2002 Duke sells Nationwide building in Dublin, Ohio, for $45MlnBusiness First of Columbus (Ohio)DUBLIN, Ohio – Duke Realty Corp. has sold the 401,500-square-foot office building it had just completed for Nationwide Financial Services to private, out-of-state investor Kendall-Dublin ...

January 25, 2002DEA to move to downtown St. Louis from suburbSt. Louis Post-DispatchST. LOUIS – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency will be moving to downtown from Clayton after a $25 million office building is completed this year. Harwood & Associates ...