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Case Study · Industrial / Flex · Northbrook, IL

Inherited, 24 Tenants, No Oversight — Sold for $2,250,000

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.

24+ tenants
At Takeover
25 units
38,534 SF Flex Campus
3.37 ac
Northbrook Site
$2.25M sold
2022 · Seller Rep
The Deal at a Glance

Sky Harbor Business Park — 310–340 Melvin Dr, Northbrook, Illinois

Property
Flex business park
Address
310–340 Melvin Dr
Size
38,534 SF · 25 units
Land
3.37 acres
Situation
Inherited · 24+ tenants
Oversight
Half-time caretaker
Assignment
Seller representation
Result
Sold $2,250,000 (2022)
How the Deal Got Done

Challenge → Move → Outcome

01 · Challenge

An inheritance with 24 tenants attached

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.

02 · The Move

First make it knowable, then make it wanted

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.

03 · Outcome

A clean $2,250,000 institutional close

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.

What the Seller Rep Actually Covered
1
Untangled
Got every tenant current and mapped.
2
Leased up
Filled the vacant units before marketing.
3
Marketed
Ran a competitive, tour-driven process.
4
Delivered
Brought an institutional buyer to the table.
5
Steered
Attorney, environmental, estoppels — to close.

“Inherited, 24 tenants, no oversight — untangled the rent roll and delivered a clean institutional sale.”

The short version of this deal
Why It Matters

The Messy-Rent-Roll Playbook

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.

Order is value
A mapped, current rent roll isn’t paperwork — it’s the difference between an institutional bid and a lowball discount for unknowns.
Tours build tension
A competitive, tour-driven process puts buyers side by side. Demand a seller can see beats an asking price a broker has to defend.
Close the close
Estoppels, environmental, attorney coordination across 25 units — the last mile is where complex sales fail, unless someone owns it.
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