For the sixth year in a row, HSAwareness sponsored a food drive over the holidays to help provide meals for local families throughout the Chicago area. Canned goods and other shelf-stable foods were collected and donated to the Greather Chicago Food Depository to help support its mission to fight food insecurity in our community. Last week, […]

HSA Commercial CEO Bob Smietana highlights the rapid pace of development and leasing activity across all property types in the firm’s recently-published YouTube video. “2016 was actually one of the best years that we’ve had since the recession,” Smietana explains. “We have about $200 million dollars in projects under development right now–retail projects, industrial projects, […]

Friday, in honor of National Wear Red Day the HSAwareness team encouraged employees to wear red and help spread awareness on the risk of heart attack and stroke. For every participating team member, HSA pledged to donate $25 to the American Heart Association, motivating company-wide support. Friday morning, the corporate Chicago office flooded with red, […]

In a recently-published article with Illinois Real Estate Journal, HSA Commercial CEO Bob Smietana reflects on the growing trend of warehousing and logistics companies moving to Southeast Wisconsin to take advantage of the Badger State’s lower taxes and pro-business policies. In recent years, many large businesses such as Amazon and Uline have built major regional […]

In a recently-published interview with the Nashville Post, HSA Commercial Real Estate CEO Bob Smietana discusses the driving factors behind the robust industrial development activity in Nashville, Tenn. HSA Commercial is currently under construction on a 652,000-square-foot distribution center at Commerce Farms Business Center in suburban Nashville with completion scheduled for spring 2017, so Bob had timely […]

The new Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin Drexel Town Square Health Center developed by HSA PrimeCare will bring an unprecedented level of healthcare services as well as nearly 150 new jobs to Oak Creek and surrounding communities. Slated to open next fall, the 109,000-square-foot health center will offer a complete spectrum of services […]

This month, the HSAwareness team worked with HSA’s community outreach partner, Chicago Commons, to fulfill the holiday wish lists of ten local families-in-need. Selected families were asked to supply names, ages, and clothing sizes for each family member, as well as toy requests for each child. Once the wish lists were received, a team of […]

A partnership formed by commercial mortgage lending specialists Innovative Capital Advisors (ICA) and Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate, a full-service real estate firm, has completed the acquisition of the 217,346-square-foot Brookfield Fashion Center in Brookfield, Wis. The regional shopping center, which is located on Bluemound Road just west of Brookfield Square Mall, is anchored by […]

Total Wine & More and Designer Shoe Warehouse have now officially opened their stores at the newly redeveloped Calhoun Crossing shopping center at 17300 West Bluemound Road in Brookfield, Wis. The 27,982-square-foot Total Wine & More, which opened to the public Nov. 9, is the first in the state of Wisconsin for the Bethesda, Md.-based […]

For the month of September, the HSAwareness team worked to support literacy in Chicago Public Schools by collecting children’s books for the library of Gillespie Technology Magnet School in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago. The HSAwareness team, led by HSA SVP Josephine Thomas-Hoytt, collected lightly-used or new books, as well as monetary donations for purchasing […]