Congrats to our 2026 Awards for Excellence Winners!
Thank you to everyone who submitted a nomination for our 39th Annual Awards for Excellence! We’re excited to recognize the outstanding projects and people shaping Chicago’s commercial real estate community.
Congratulations to the 2026 CREDA Chicago Award Winners, announced on November 5, 2026, at our 39th Annual Awards for Excellence!
Developer of the Year
Industrial Build-to-Suit Development of the Year
- RJW Logistics at Karis Park West | KARIS Critical
Industrial Speculative Development of the Year – Large Scale
TIE
- Plainfield Logistics Centre | DHL Supply Chain
- University Park Logistics Center | Hillwood & Clarius Partners
Industrial Speculative Development of the Year – Small Scale
- Kurv Des Plaines | Kurv Industrial
Special-Use Development of the Year
- FedEx Ground – Gary, IN | Scannell Properties & Transport Properties
Broker Transaction | Downtown Office
- Mars Snacking at 400 N. Aberdeen
- Landlord/Seller Broker: Dan Lyne, JLL, (formerly CBRE)
- Tenant/Buyer Brokers: Mitch Adams, Tony Coglianese, Todd Copeland, Todd Lippman & Brady Wolfe, CBRE
Broker Transaction | Suburban Office
- AbbVie at 1615-1675 Lakeside Drive
- Landlord/Seller Brokers: Sarah Walker & Jason Wurtz, NAI Hiffman
Broker Transaction | Industrial
- Hyundai Translead in Joliet
- Landlord/Seller Brokers: Jerry Sullivan & Ed Wabick, Darwin;
Jason West, Cushman & Wakefield - Tenant/Buyer Brokers: Shamus Conneely & Cory Ramey, John Greene Commercial Real Estate
- Landlord/Seller Brokers: Jerry Sullivan & Ed Wabick, Darwin;
Broker Transaction | Office Investment Sale
- 401 N. Michigan
- Brokers: Sam DiFrancesca, Jaime Fink & Bruce Miller, JLL
Broker Transaction | Industrial Investment Sale
- Dermody Illinois Disposition
- Brokers: Ryan Bain, Zachary C. Graham & Joe Horrigan, CBRE
Broker Transaction | Multifamily Investment Sale
- The Pavilion Apartments
- Brokers: Elizabeth Gagliardi, Chuck Johanns & Susan Lawson, Newmark
Architecture Firm of the Year
Engineering Firm of the Year
Contractor of the Year
Property Management Firm of the Year
2026-27 Matthew T. Robertson Future Leaders Scholarship Recipients
- Corin Campbell | University of Chicago
- Maximo Castillo | DePaul University
- Sakina Electricwala | DePaul University
- Joshua Keaton | Chicago State University
- Isabella Lucaccioni | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
- Michelle Murias | Marquette University
- Tyler Parbs | Northwestern University
- Caitlyn Thomas | Roosevelt University
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