NILES, IL-CenterPoint Properties Trust may be making lemonade out of a lemon. With HALO Industries, Inc. vacating its 267,344-sf state-of-the-art office building at 5800 W. Touhy Ave. here, the largest industrial property owner in the Chicago market has been fielding offers to lease as well as buy the building built to suit for he promotional products distributor now under the protection of Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

The one offer to buy the building was deemed “unacceptable,” CenterPoint Chief Operating Officer Michael M.Mullen told analysts Tuesday. However, the company is working with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs on a benefits package aimed at luring a “major international corporation” to the building, he added.

“Knock on wood, this could be a full-building user,” McMullen says.

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