The Elevator Speech
By Gary Kuzel, Jeff Jacklin, and Chris Allison. Join Affiliate Member United Radio Communications for a guided tour of Safety Reimagined –Technology for a Safer World – an integrated technology ecosystem. The tour will share how this ecosystem enables Building…
How did you get involved in the commercial real estate industry? I started as a leasing agent at an apartment building right out of college, and from there moved on into an…
By Robert Ladner with SDI Presence The responsibilities of a commercial real estate property manager are many and varied, ranging from managing occupancy, tenant relationships, safety concerns and building financials. One common –…
Tragic events have been an unfortunate way of calling the attention to safety mishaps that could have been avoided. While the number of fires in Chicago office buildings are limited, those resulting…
Whether you are a property owner, manager, or a tenant, failing to comply with the City of Chicago’s public way requirements will cost you time and money. If not properly permitted, public…
On May 20, Lori E. Lightfoot was sworn in as Chicago’s fifty-sixth Mayor at Wintrust Arena. This was the largest venue for a mayoral swearing-in in recent memory. The crowd was excited…
By Stephen S. Morrill, Principal of Morrill & Fiedler LLC (M&F), with contributions from Curt Fiedler The House and Senate convene the final week of the scheduled 2019 spring session – with…
Every night, Chicagoans are treated to a brightly illuminated, iconic skyline. On many nights, the buildings have a splash of color. Sometimes, messages are sprawled across the building facades. Whether celebrating a…
In September 2013, Chicago adopted the energy benchmarking ordinance for residential, commercial, institutional and municipal buildings. Five years later, Chicago achieved LEED for Cities Platinum certification. In February, Illinois was rated the…
Certainty and Predictability: that’s what the building and construction industry needs most from a building code. The City of Chicago has gone a long way to achieve these crucial tenets with the…
The February 26 election may be over but ballot counting continues. Mail-in ballots postmarked by election day can be counted until March 12, one week before the Board of Elections must certify…
On Wednesday, February 20, Governor Pritzker delivered his inaugural budget address. According to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Governor Pritzker’s Fiscal Year 2020 (FY20) budget totals $77 Billion in spending…
The Peoples Gas Energy Efficiency Program can help your building save money and energy. The program’s energy advisors will meet with you to discuss natural gas savings measures for your building and…
By Susan Hammer, BOMA/Chicago Education Committee Chair and Vice President/General Manager at AMA Plaza Sir Isaac Newton once said: “What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.” …
Across Chicagoland it’s a common sight to see window washers perched on the sides of the city’s buildings, sometime hundreds of feet above the street, at work cleaning the windows and glass…
The 2018 Illinois General Election was held earlier this month on Tuesday, November 6. The anticipated “blue wave,” while not as impactful as originally predicted (at least in the U.S. Senate), still…
Make a Food or Financial Donation through December 7 By BOMA/Chicago Each year, the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) provides meals for 1 in 6 residents living in Cook County. This translates into 810,000+…
Policy decisions made in Springfield greatly impact the commercial office industry and BOMA/Chicago members have an ongoing interest in Illinois election outcomes. As a follow up to last week’s blog about the…
Click Here to Read Part 1 of Heather Holderman’s Profile. Cultivating relationships with tenants from the level of decision maker, facility manager and the administrative teams. All these roles are critical to…
Because the commercial office industry is profoundly impacted by legislative and regulatory activity at the state and local levels, BOMA/Chicago members and affiliates rightfully pay close attention to elections in Illinois. This…
If you received email promotions over the summer for ACTivate networking events hosted by the Chicago Loop Alliance (CLA), you may have wondered … what is the CLA? What does this group…