Keith Puritz and Brett Kroner of CB Richard Ellis representedboth Oakbrook-based CenterPoint Properties Trust as well as Ta ChenInternational. Along with Anne Dempsey, they are exclusivemarketing agents for CenterPoint Business Center-Gurnee, where theREIT has enough land to build more than 1 million sf of industrialspace. FCL Builders is the contractor and Cornerstone Architects isarchitect for the most recent project.

CenterPoint Properties Trust has begun work on a 102,028-sfbuild-to-suit for Herbert Stanley Co. and has signed a deal foranother 265,000-sf project.

Meanwhile, CenterPoint Properties Trust received a Phoenix Awardfor its $210-million Chicago Manufacturing Campus, a joint venturewith Ford Motor Land Development Corp. The project on the city'sSoutheast Side won top honors for brownfield redevelopment in thefive-state Midwest region and was first runner-up nationally.