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.”
Heitman, Badger and Weiner combined have over 43 years of commercial real estate experience and will continue to focus on the North industrial submarkets. Together, the team has completed more than 29 million square feet of industrial transactions with an aggregate value of more than $1.35 billion. As a team, they have represented private investors, large institutional clients and Fortune 500 companies, including First Industrial, CenterPoint Properties and IBM Corp., among others.
“NAI Hiffman has been executing a multi-year strategic recruiting initiative with great success,” adds Dave Petersen, the company's chief executive officer. “Our goal has been to identify top talent and provide them with all the tools necessary for their success resulting in broad market coverage to serve our investor and tenant clients.”
“We have been watching NAI Hiffman and the things that have been happening here for a while now,” says Heitman. “There is a momentum building within the organization and it's evident to the market. The company has a great culture and the platform to assist our team to further deliver solutions to our clients. We are very excited about the future.”
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
