Midwest Commercial Real Estate, Inc. was formed in July 1996 for the primary purpose of providing clients with market expertise and undiluted opportunities with a personal insight as to needs and solutions. The overall goal is to serve as an extension of the client’s company – in a professional non-fee driven manner.
Midwest’s approach to real estate is to take the position of the client - to identify with the client’s needs, goals and strategies. By approaching real estate from a broad perspective, and not just from fee-based assignments, Midwest can help the client achieve long-term success. Not being fee-driven means the client gets real answers and recommendations to offers, proposals and real estate situations. Over the long term all parties will be rewarded. Midwest understands and identifies with the concept of real estate as an asset - and the need to approach it as such.
This concept applies no matter the size of a real estate project - because the small seemingly inconsequential requirements are as determining to long-term success as the major projects. The attitude throughout a relationship is one of mutual respect and attention to detail - small and large.
Larry has extensive experience in industrial leasing, sales and build-to-suits; land sales and associated developments; investment sale of individual and package industrial portfolios; marketing of multi-facility industrial parks and asset redeployments. Since 1983, he was involved in more than 1,100 industrial transactions totaling over 46,000,000 square feet of space with an aggregate value in excess of $1,500,000,000.00. Larry was repeatedly a top producer at Hiffman Shaffer Associates (as a principal); Colliers, Bennett & Kahnweiler and Grubb & Ellis Company.
He has represented such firms, many repeatedly, as Connect Group, LLC, Pilot Travel Centers, Campbell Soup, Rhone Poulenc (Rhodia), Carson Pirie Scott (SAKS, Inc.), Amoco, Prudential Insurance, Westinghouse, Kelly-Springfield Tire, Equitable Insurance, Turtle Wax, DuPont, Waste Management, Dry Storage Corporation, J.P. Morgan, New York Life, Anixter Bros., Farley Candy, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Cabot Industrial Trust, CenterPoint Properties, Sterling Logistics, Standard Bank, Alliance 3PL, Romano Bros., Bon-Ton Stores, Duke Realty, Southern Tire Mart and First Industrial Trust.
Larry earned a B.S.I.M. degree from Purdue University in Lafayette, IN. He is married with three grown children and resides in St. Charles, IL. He is an active member of the Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIREB).