Chicago-based HSA Commercial Real Estate was named one of Chicago’s Top Leasing Firms for the fourth consecutive year in the Power Broker Awards by the CoStar Group. The CoStar Power Brokers Awards are given annually to companies that demonstrate the highest levels of leasing transaction volume in a specific geographic market, recognizing the most active firms and […]

HSA Commercial profiles a broker at our firm each month as part of our HSA News & Views blog. In this edition, we talk with Michael Havdala, senior vice president with the Retail Services Division. Michael is a veteran retail broker with extensive experience in both tenant and landlord representation.   HSA: Has the recessionary […]

HSA Commercial Real Estate was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of the city’s largest commercial property managers, ranking 12th in the annual list of 25 commercial property management firms. HSA Commercial has a diversified portfolio of management assignments totaling 16 million square feet nationwide. Apart from its overall spot on the list of […]

HSA Commercial profiles a broker at our firm each month as part of our HSA News & Views blog. In this edition, we talk with Brad Borkowski, associate with the Industrial Services Division.  Brad started five years ago as an intern at HSA but has leveraged his personal knowledge and experience in the logistics industry […]

In the February edition of Heartland Real Estate Business, HSA Commercial’s Tim Blum discusses what to expect in Chicago retail development and leasing in 2012. Tim is responsible for the development of The Mayfair Collection in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a 250,000-square-foot adaptive reuse project in suburban Milwaukee. As a result of the changes in consumer behavior, […]

Last week, HSAwareness joined volunteers from Columbia College Chicago and Nokia to help the Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) repack some of its donated and purchased food for distribution to local pantries and shelters. HSA’s team members were tasked with unpacking and portioning a large shipment of cornflakes that had arrived at the GCFD headquarters […]

Bob Smietana, vice chairman and CEO of HSA Commercial, and John Wilson, president of HSA PrimeCare, today announced that HSA PrimeCare has hired Suzy Cobin as a senior vice president. In her new role at HSA PrimeCare, Ms. Cobin will have the primary responsibility of creating and expanding HSA’s business relationships with hospital systems and […]

The leadership at HSA Commercial launched HSAwareness in late 2011 to encourage generosity and volunteerism among the company’s team members and other stakeholders. The group has already hit the ground running with successful fundraising campaigns for its partner organizations: The Greater Chicago Food Depository and Chicago Commons. HSAwareness Food Drive HSA partnered with the Greater […]

Each month, HSA Commercial profiles a broker at our firm as part of our HSA News & Views blog. In this edition, we talk with Wayne Shulman, senior vice president of the Corporate Real Estate Services division.  Wayne has been with HSA since 1987 representing both tenants and landlords in leasing, selling and marketing their […]

In its December 2011 issue, Midwest Real Estate News named HSA Commercial’s chairman and founder, Jack Shaffer, to its Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame. Midwest Real Estate News’ editor Dan Rafter wrote the following of Jack’s long, illustrious career in real estate: “With his long history of tackling the most prominent projects in Chicago […]