
Fast Food and Healthcare Drive Chicago Retail's Pandemic Recovery
Chicago retail is rebounding post-pandemic as coffee shops, fast-casual chicken chains, and medical clinics fill vacant storefronts along the city's top corridors.
5 stories on healthcare in commercial real estate.

Chicago retail is rebounding post-pandemic as coffee shops, fast-casual chicken chains, and medical clinics fill vacant storefronts along the city's top corridors.

New York-based Clarion Partners has successfully closed more than a dozen targeted, single-asset healthcare real estate investments, spending well over $1 billion to expand its medical portfolio. The strategic acquisitions deepen the firm's partnerships with established operators and highlight a strong institutional conviction in the medical outpatient sector.

MassDevelopment issued $865.5M in tax-exempt bonds for Mass General Brigham's 482-bed West End campus expansion and debt refinancing.

National Health Investors agrees to sell 35 skilled nursing and independent living properties to NHC for $560M, closing July 1, 2026, as it shifts toward private-pay assets.

NC Children's has closed on a $90M, 200-acre land purchase in Apex, NC, for the state's first freestanding pediatric hospital campus.