Jeff Kuchman has over 30 years of experience in the areas of retail tenant representation, shopping center development, surplus property disposition, shopping center leasing, commercial sales, assemblage, development consulting and market analysis. Mr. Kuchman has represented select clients in as many as 50 major metropolitan markets in addition to his efforts in the greater Chicagoland area. He is currently directing Midwest expansion efforts on behalf of several notable clients, including Amazon and Nordstrom.
Over the course of his career, Kuchman has completed nearly twelve hundred transactions with a collective value approaching $8 billion. Kuchman has represented retail tenants in the acquisition of over 30 million square feet of space and has assisted developers in gaining approval for the development and leasing of over eleven million square feet of new construction. He has been honored by the Illinois CCIM Chapter as having negotiated the largest single commercial lease as well as the largest commercial land sale within the membership. Mr. Kuchman has also been a consistent nominee or recipient of the Retail Broker of the Year Award by the Northern Illinois Commercial Association of Realtors and the Chicago Sun Times.
Kuchman is a graduate of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he earned a B.A. in Communications. He is a member of the CCIM Institute and serves as a former President of the Illinois CCIM Chapter. He is also an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the Northeastern Illinois Commercial Association of Realtors (NICAR).
Headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, the Mid-America Real Estate organization is Chicago and the Midwest’s leading full-service retail real estate organization. Founded in 1984 primarily to service an emerging national chain store expansion phenomenon, Mid-America Real Estate Corporation (MAREC) brokers and consultants have been unrivaled in tenant representation, pre-Development and shopping center leasing, land assemblage, investment sales and Consulting. Mid-America Asset Management Company (MAAMCo) has similarly become the region’s most dominant third-party asset Management group, accumulating an impressive portfolio of clients and currently managing and leasing in excess of 16 million square feet, more than any other non-owner firm. The Management company also provides construction Management and Development services for its clients. The two companies have also recently combined to offer retail Consulting services to area municipalities. Mid-America Investment and Development Corporation (MIDCO), formed in 2001, focuses on the acquisition and Development of retail product throughout the Midwest. Mid-America also has an office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.