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Easter Seals Expands, Moves HQ to Sears Tower

CHICAGO-The nonprofit organization is moving from its current location at 230 W. Monroe St. at the beginning of 2009.

By Gina Kenny | Updated on August 08, 2007

CHICAGO-Easter Seals, headquartered here, has signed a lease to relocate its corporate headquarters to the 24th floor of the Sears Tower, 233 S. Wacker Dr. The term of the lease is 12 years. The initial lease commitment is for at least 25,401 sf with the option to expand. Easter Seals was represented in the lease transaction by ProTen Realty Group. John Dempsey, with CB Richard Ellis, represented building ownership.

The nonprofit organization, which as been in existence for more than 85 years, provides services to people with developmental, physical and mental disabilities. The group’s headquarters has been located for the past 14 years at 230 W. Monroe St., where it leases about 23,000 sf, says Donald Jackson, chief operating officer of the organization. Easter Seals will move into the Sears Tower by February 2009.

Easter Seals has committed to at least 25,000 sf but “it is highly likely that it will be a little bit more than that,” he says. The space is currently being designed by locally based Area Design Ltd. The Sears Tower has 50,000-sf floor plates for the first 49 stories of the 110-story tower and “that enables more expansion room as we continue to grow,” Jackson says. “We are just bursting at the seams right now,” he adds. Easter Seals would not have been able to expand at its current location without being located on more than one floor, Jackson says. Easter Seals also chose the Sears Tower for its new location because of the proximity to Metra train stations and other forms of public transportation, and because of its amenities such as restaurants and a post office in the building. “We were forever running over to that post office as it was,” he says.

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