HSA COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SIGNS 5-YEAR LEASE
RENEWAL AT HSA-OWNED PROPERTY IN COLUMBUS, OHIO

FOR: HSACOMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Contact: Tim Davis, 312.332.3555

Chicago – December 7, 2005) Daniel F. Miranda, president, HSA Commercial Real Estate, announced that the firm has signed a 5-year lease extension with MBM Corporation at 4300 Diplomacy Drive, Columbus, Ohio, a distribution warehouse that was acquired by HSA in May, 2005.

MBM Corporation leases the entire 237,170-square foot building and has leased the property since 1998. They are one of the largest privately owned food service distributors in the nation, providing food to national restaurant chains such as Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Arby's, Burger King and Chick-fil-A. The company uses the Diplomacy Drive warehouse as their central Midwest distribution center.

The warehouse is located at 4300 Diplomacy Drive and is part of an 11-building industrial portfolio of 2.5 million square feet purchased by HSA last spring in Ohio and Kentucky. Miranda, along with Kenneth Verne, HSA's general manager for the building, represented ownership, and were assisted locally by Dave Mankin with CB Richard Ellis. MBM was represented in the lease renewal by Paul Munana, with the Staubach Company.

In another transaction involving one of the properties in the Ohio portfolio, Sears Logistics extended their 120,000-square foot lease at 1727 Georgesville Road, Columbus, Ohio. Sears leases the entire building as a distribution center and extended their lease for one year. Again, Miranda and Verne, along with Mankin, negotiated the terms of the renewal for all parties.

Celebrating more than 24 years of excellence in commercial real estate, Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate is a full-service real estate firm specializing in office, industrial, retail and health care real estate leasing, management, marketing, development and financing on a national basis. The firm and its principals have developed and acquired more than 30 million square feet of commercial real estate across the United States with total consideration in excess of $1.5 billion, its brokerage divisions have completed more than 7,000 transactions in 43 states representing both owners and tenants, while the asset management division currently manages a property portfolio in excess of 15 million square feet in 11 states.

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