As entrepreneurs breathe new life into aging industrial properties, institutional investors see an opportunity
As entrepreneurs breathe new life into aging industrial properties, institutional investors see an opportunity The new Guild Row development near the Chicago River and Belmont Avenue. Photo by DAAM LLC, courtesy of Guild Row. When partners Mike Healy, Jim Lasko and Elyse Agnello were conducting the site selection process for their member-based event venue, maker space, and commercial kitchen venture back in 2016, the team settled on a row of older industrial buildings near the Chicago River in the Avondale community. The aging structures at Rockwell and Fletcher were ripe for adaptive reuse, ...