Sky Harbor Business Park, 310–340 Melvin Dr, Northbrook: a 25-unit, 38,534 SF flex campus on 3.37 acres that a family inherited with more than two dozen tenants, a half-time caretaker, and a rent roll nobody fully understood. Jason Bitton got every tenant current and mapped, leased the vacancies, ran a competitive, tour-driven marketing process, and steered a complex institutional close — $2,250,000 in 2022, seller-side.
The family didn’t buy Sky Harbor Business Park — they inherited it. The 25-unit flex campus at 310–340 Melvin Dr, a former construction yard, came with more than two dozen tenants and almost no oversight: a half-time caretaker, leases and payments that didn’t line up, and a rent roll that couldn’t survive a buyer’s first question.
Institutional buyers don’t pay for potential in that condition. They discount for every unknown — or they walk. Selling Sky Harbor as-is would have meant selling it for less than it was worth, forever.
Jason started where the value was leaking: the rent roll. Unit by unit, he got every tenant current and mapped — who was in what space, on what terms, paying what — and leased up the vacancies, turning a pile of question marks into a document a buyer could underwrite.
Then he made it wanted: a competitive, tour-driven marketing process that walked many large groups through the campus and let visible demand set the tone.
When the institutional buyer stepped up, Jason steered the close itself — coordinating the attorney work, the environmental review, and estoppel agreements across the entire tenant base. On a 25-unit sale, that last mile is where deals quietly die; this one didn’t.
Sky Harbor sold for $2,250,000 in 2022, seller-side — $200,000 above the property’s 2021 asking price of $2,050,000. Same land, same buildings as the day the family inherited it — the difference was a rent roll that answered every question before it was asked, and a broker who carried two dozen tenancies through estoppels to signature.
Walk the 25-unit industrial-flex campus at 310–340 Melvin Drive.
“Inherited, 24 tenants, no oversight — untangled the rent roll and delivered a clean institutional sale.”
Inherited buildings are rarely sellable in the condition they’re received. The gap between “it collects rent” and “a buyer can underwrite it” is where sellers lose the most money — and where the right preparation earns it back.
Tell Jason what you’re holding — he’ll tell you what it takes to make it sellable, what it’s worth clean versus as-is, and whether now is the time. Confidential, before anything hits the market.
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