Building buzz to support leasing efforts for a repositioned suburban office building

In 2018, building on an existing client relationship with Wright Heerema Architects (WHA), Akrete secured a joint interview with Crain’s Chicago Business for WHA Principal Roger Heerema and his frequent partner and collaborator, Franklin Partners’ Ray Warner. Franklin Partners had recently purchased the former OfficeMax headquarters in Naperville, Illinois and planned to reposition the building in partnership with WHA. The Franklin Partners team, impressed by the feature coverage we secured for their acquisition of the building, asked Akrete to provide media relations services to promote their repositioning of the former corporate headquarters property into The Shuman: a multi-tenant, destination office building in the Chicago suburbs.