CHICAGO—NAI Hiffman has just hired a set of Chicago-based veterans away from Cushman & Wakefield for its industrial services group. Effective immediately, Whit Heitman, Sam Badger and Brad Weiner will continue work as a team at the Oakbrook Terrace headquarters and focus on serving owners, occupiers and investors of industrial real estate in the Chicago area and nationally.

This is not the first time that they have changed firms as a group. As reported in GlobeSt.com, in 2013, they moved to C&W from Paine/Wetzel TCN Worldwide, where Heitman served as principal, Badger served as senior vice president and Weiner served as vice president. The team specialized in brokering industrial sale and lease transactions in the North Suburban Chicago area, particularly in the Northern Cook and Lake County markets, including Southeastern Wisconsin.

“This team is a great complement to our existing platform and gives us a dominant and strategic presence in the North Suburban submarkets,” says John Picchiotti, chief operating officer, brokerage for NAI Hiffman. “This addition strengthens NAI Hiffman's already comprehensive coverage throughout the Chicago metropolitan area with the addition of some of the most respected professionals in the business.”