PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Brett Kroner is a Senior Vice President of CBRE’s Industrial Properties group located in
Bannockburn, Illinois (also our Oak Brook, Rosemont and Chicago offices). Brett’s team
has been the #1 industrial team in Chicago since joining CBRE in 2002. The team has
successfully completed over 500 total transactions, valued at over $2 billion, totaling 35
million square feet. Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Kroner was a Director with Cushman &
Wakefield serving as an industrial broker in the Chicago metropolitan area from 19972002. From 1995-1996 Mr. Kroner was employed by CB Commercial of Denver, Inc.,
working as part of an Industrial redevelopment team for Stapleton Airport.
BRETT A. KRONER
Senior Vice President
Global Brokerage Services
E-Commerce Specialty Practice Group
T: +1 847 5721411
F: +1 847 5721401
brett.kroner@cbre.com
Brett Kroner understands his client’s real estate decisions in the context of the client’s
overall strategic objectives and seeks to understand how real estate impacts each client’s
productivity and profitability. To suffice the client’s real estate requirements, he provides
appropriate services including strategic planning, transaction management, logistics
analysis, development and design/build advisory, structured finance and tax
engineering, economic incentives counseling, asset valuation, project management, and
land acquisition / development.
CLIENTS REPRESENTED
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Aramark Services
A partial list of Mr. Kroner’s completed deals include the following:
The Bazaar, Inc.
Beltone
MAJOR CLIENTS
SQUARE FEET
Bombardier, Inc.
 Procter & Gamble
3.2M SF
CalEast
 W.W. Grainger
1.7M SF
Cardinal Health
CareFusion
 Cardinal Health
1.6M SF
CDW
 Midwest Air Technologies
+1.1M SF
CenterPoint Properties
 Pfizer
1.1M SF
Clarion
Eastman Chemical
 The Bazaar, Inc.
960,000 SF
First Industrial
 FRAM Group
710,000 SF
Google
 Unilever Corporation
600,000 SF
The Heico Companies, LLC
540,000 SF
International Precision Components  Bridgestone Tire
Corporation
 Wal-Mart
500,000 SF
Italtractor America / Sorefa
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Bombardier
Corporation
500,000 SF
Jinny Beauty Supply
 Watson Pharmaceuticals
265,000 SF
Kuehne + Nagel
LaSalle Investment Mgmt
 Jinny Beauty Supply
255,000 SF
Magenta Corporation
 The Heico Companies
250,000 SF
McShane Corporation
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Main
Steel
240,000 SF
Medline Industries
Medikmark, Inc.
 Gustave A. Larson
225,000 SF
Midwest Air Technologies
 Sauer-Danfoss
200,000 SF
Kemper
 Ta Chen
185,000 SF
NEC
 The C.H. Hanson Company
160,000 SF
Ohmite Manufacturing
Opus North
 Aramark Refreshment Services
100,000 SF
Panattoni
 Kemper Insurance
77,000 SF
Penta Development Group
 Cardinal Health
225 Acre Campus
PLEXUS
Prologis
 Lutter Corp.
162 Acres
SGS Laboratories
 Six Flags, Inc.
135 Acres
Six Flags, Inc.
 Lorrell Business Center
54 Acres
Ta Chen
UBS
 Frito-Lay
14 Acres
Unimast, Inc.
Wal-Mart
Watson Pharma, Inc.
W.W. Grainger
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
CREDENTIALS
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS / ACCREDITATIONS
 The Cancer Wellness Center
 Vice President of Finance of Executive Board of Directors – 2012 – 2015
 Secretary of Executive Board of Directors – 2009 - 2012
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 Key Note Speaker at the 20th Anniversary Gala Benefit Fundraiser
Member of SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Realtors) – since 2006
Member of NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties) –
Current – Since 2011
Participant in Lake County Partners – Current - Since 1998
Member of AIRE (Association of Industrial Real Estate) – Current - Since 1999
 2004 & 2005 – Fundraiser Committee - AIRE
 2004 & 2003 – By-laws Chairman - AIRE
 2002 & 2001 – Events Chairman – AIRE
 Member of YIBA (Young Industrial Brokers Association) – 1998 – 2001
ACHIEVEMENTS
 2009 and 2005 Chicagoland Industrial Broker of the Year, Greater Chicago Food
Depository.
 Top Industrial Team at CBRE Chicago – 2002 – 2012.
 CBRE Chicago Chairman’s Circle – 2008 – 2012.
 2011 NAIOP Industrial Transaction of the Year, Follett Corp.
 Senior partners, Keith Puritz and Brett Kroner, were #1 and #2 in the industrial
group – 2004 - 2009.
 Finalist, Greater Chicago Food Depository Industrial Broker of the Year for 2011,
2010, 2008, 2006 and 2004.
 2010 and 2003 – Nominated for Industrial Transaction of the Year for California
Cartage Distribution Center and W.W. Grainger Midwest Distribution Center –
NAIOP
 2002 – Recipient of the Frank Mahoney Award for Excellence in Brokerage through
the Association of Industrial Brokers
 Nominated for 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, and 2001 NAIOP
Industrial Transaction of the Year, Industrial Build-to-Suit of the Year, Suburban
Office Build-to-Suit of the Year, and Industrial Redevelopment of the Year.
 2001 – Brett was recognized as a top ten Chicagoland industrial producer at
Cushman & Wakefield
 2000 & 2001 – Frank Mahoney award nominee – AIRE
 1999 – Cushman & Wakefield’s “Rookie of the Year”
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
EDUCATION
Mr. Kroner graduated from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Communications and played hockey while attending
WMU. Member of Order of Omega Academic Honors Society 1993 – 1995.
Mr. Kroner currently holds a real estate license in Illinois and Wisconsin, and has been
licensed in Colorado and Michigan.