With the title of SVP, Preston has been given the responsibility of managing all acquisitions, construction activity and new business development in the spec and build-to-suit industrial markets. Higgins, which besides its Chicago headquarters has offices in Washington, DC, Newport Beach, CA and Toronto, has opened its new office at 89 Headquarters Plaza. The company recently launched industrial projects in Pennsylvania and South Carolina.

"Gene's market knowledge, existing relationships and reputation throughout the eastern part of the country will be invaluable to our future growth plans in this region," says Jack Higgins, chairman and CEO of the company. Higgins, an affiliate of Pritzker Realty Group, has developed more than $4 billion of office, industrial, lab, government, institutional and mixed-use properties since 1980.

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