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Kenneth P Franzese
Founding Principal
LEE & ASSOCIATES
SIORSIOR Member since 2024
Consulting, Corporate Services, Distribution & Logistics, Investments, Landlord, Sale/Leasing, Tenant Representation9450 Bryn Mawr Ave Ste 550, Suite 550, Rosemont, Illinois 60018-5222
About
Ken is a commercial properties specialist who focuses on supporting corporate clients, institutional investors and developers. While he is based in Chicago and works the metropolitan area, much of his corporate work involves the creation and implementation of strategic real estate plans for regional and national portfolios. As a market expert, Ken specializes in assisting with the sales, leasing and build-to-suit of industrial and office properties.
Ken utilizes his extensive land acquisition and development expertise to assist Developers and Corporate Clients with land assemblage and acquisition strategies. This includes the identification of optimal speculative projects so that his team can coordinate the acquisition and then oversee the project through successful lease-up and a subsequent investment sale of the asset. His investment work has included sale-leaseback projects and the support of institutional clients with the acquisition and stabilization of industrial properties.
In 2002, Ken co-founded the Chicago office of Lee & Associates and, together with his partners, has built one of the top industrial brokerage firms in the Chicago Metropolitan area. Since opening the Chicago office as the 18th location for the organization, the Lee & Associates Group of Companies has expanded to 75+ offices nationally and the organization completed over $32 billion in sales in 2022. Ken has personally been involved in transactions valued at over $2.5 billion and he strives to establish long-term working relationships with the companies he represents and continuously seeks the role as a trusted advisor. He’s committed to providing unparalleled service along with the highest level of enthusiasm and dedication to the assignments he undertakes.
Ken strives to establish long-term working relationships with the companies he represents and continuously seeks the role as a trusted advisor. He’s committed to providing unparalleled service along with the highest level of enthusiasm and dedication to the assignments he undertakes.
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