“Four Parkway North is a strong addition to the Wells Core REIT portfolio,” explains Joe Oglesby, chief investment officer of Wells Real Estate Funds. “It serves as a headquarters location to three of our tenants—CF Industries, Lundbeck, and Randstad.”

Wells was represented internally by Peter Mitchell, senior vice president of capital markets. Mitchell tells GlobeSt.com that “Four Parkway North provided an opportunity to acquire a well-located, class-A, 100%-leased office building in a premier office park. This acquisition helps to enhance our industry and tenancy diversification, and the building serves as a headquarters location for three tenants.”

In Chicago, the third largest office market at 235 million square feet, the city had about negative 715, 755 square feet of absorption in the first half, the second highest total occupancy loss in the country, according to recent JLL’s figures. The city’s vacancy rate stands at about 19.5%. According to Q2 data collected by New York City-based Studley and provided to GlobeSt.com, Chicago mirrors the rest of the country with a large mass of class B and lower-rated space, but very little quality office available Like many big US cities, Chicago has no new office construction underway, with little come to market since the recession.

And according to experts, many large markets, such as Chicago, today have the large block demand for around four new office buildings, but are seeing one building announced – or nothing. In Chicago, only Hines’ $300 million River Point project in the River North area is moving forward, having finally closed financing with partner Ivanhoe Cambridge after a few failed starts since 2008, as GlobeSt.com previously reported. In addition, secondary office is just not ready.

In a recent article, written by GlobeSt.com, the secondary and tertiary markets may have a little bit more to time in the vacancy rinse cycle, says Dave Menke, SVP and general manager of the Opus Group.