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CHICAGO—One of the city's most ambitious redevelopment projectsnow has an anchor tenant for its office space. In another sign thatthe office market has grown beyond the confines of the CBD,Merit Partners and Cushman &Wakefield say that Crate and BarrelHoldings has leased 117,000 square feet of office andproduction space at Merit Partners' The Fieldsredevelopment. Crate and Barrel plans to utilize the space forphoto and video production.

In the past few years, developers transformed theonce-industrial Fulton Market neighborhood into a high-tech office hub,and others have established new spaces in rising neighborhoods like Pilsen and Goose Island. In early 2014, Merit Partners began remaking the 22-acre, 1.5million-square-foot Marshall Field's campuslocated at 4000 W. Diversey in the Logan Square neighborhood intoThe Fields.

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Brian J. Rogal

Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.