January 7, 2008
(Chicago – January 7, 2008) Christine Muszynski, executive vice president and director of management operations, announced that McCormick Theological Seminary has hired HSA Commercial Real Estate to provide facility management consulting services for its administrative and student residence facilities, as well as shared space with the Lutheran School of Theology.
McCormick Theological Seminary, a non-profit organization, is one of eleven schools of theology of the Presbyterian Church (USA). It shares a campus with the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, bordering the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. Primarily a seminary serving the Presbytery of Chicago and the Synod of Lincoln Trails, McCormick also educates members of other Christian denominations. It was named after American industrialist Cyrus McCormick. The main building is located at 5460 S. University Avenue in Chicago.
HSA’s assignment is two-fold. HSA will provide facility management consulting services led by Joe Swojenski, general manager. These services will include analyzing and benchmarking facility operating expenses and identifying cost savings and service enhancement opportunities. Ryan Worcester, property manager, will also provide services in the areas of vendor management, capital improvements and special projects.
HSA has become a leader in managing the assets of non-profit organizations, which takes a special expertise and skill that HSA has mastered. The firm has developed the capacity to provide facility management services that are highly responsive to the specific needs of the non-profit organization, creating effective facility management processes to preserve, enhance and create value in their real estate assets. The firm’s other non-profit and educational-related clients include The Gateway Foundation, United Way Crusade and the University of Chicago.
Celebrating 27 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. Along with developing all kinds of commercial real estate across the United States, its brokerage divisions have completed more than 7,500 transactions in 43 states representing both owners and tenants, the asset management division currently manages a property portfolio in excess of 15 million square feet in 12 states and the firm presently owns over 17 million square feet of commercial property in 14 states.
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