Founded in 1973 by Michael H. Rose as a full service real estate development company, located in Mokena, IL, LFI is a vertically integrated real estate company focused on the acquisition, development, and creation of innovative commercial real estate solutions for its real estate portfolio consisting of more than 100 properties across the U.S., with a concentration in the Chicagoland area, ranging from small to large size retail centers, medical office buildings, prime commercial buildings, single tenant retail with large national or regional tenants, to be developed properties, large manufactured home communities, industrial parks, and hotels, currently valued in excess of $500MM. Since its inception LFI has been an instrumental part of over $1 billion in real estate development projects and has pioneered new strategies in retail and industrial real estate development, with products such as multi-tenant building out lot developments, the first ever drive-thru Starbucks in the state of Illinois, or large scale build to suit industrial facilities. Throughout its over 40+ year history, LFI has consistently demonstrated its ability to effectively utilize its deep bench of talent and experience to source and execute on opportunities and provide a healthy investment return for itself and its capital partners.

In addition to acquisitions, development and the repositioning of assets, LFI provides a full range of real estate related services including but not limited to; property management, brokerage, leasing, consulting and on occasion construction management services. LFI provides these services to all of the properties of which LFI’s companies have an ownership interest and to a variety of unrelated third parties. It is due to this broad range of expertise, history of successfully executing transactions, and continued ability to adapt in an ever changing environment that has cemented LFI as a leader in its industry and provided the basis for significant and long term relationships with their partners, investors and clients. The 2008 economic downturn challenged even the most seasoned and sizeable real estate institutions across the country. A testament to LFI’s strong talent and diversity across the real estate industry is that LFI not only successfully navigated the rough waters of the economic downturn but LFI was able to ascertain a new demand for medical office buildings in the Chicagoland area developing over $60MM+ in new properties for DuPage Medical Group.

LFI is a Chicago commercial real estate development leader. With a combined experience of over 160 years in the industry, LFI’s partners have a deep understanding of the real estate development markets and a broad range of expertise. For example, in addition to an extensive list of retail buildings throughout the Chicagoland area, LFI has developed: a Casino entertainment complex in Greece, a 400 acre office park development in Monee, Illinois, several large medical office buildings, a 1 million square foot Amazon warehouse, and a 720,000 square foot build to suit industrial facility for Michelin Tires.

LFI has formed strategic partnerships with several of its largest retail tenants including but not limited to; Starbucks, CarX, AT&T, Walgreens, Jimmy John’s, Chase, and Walter E. Smithe. LFI has been or is a preferred retail developer for these and many other retail companies in the Chicagoland area and throughout the U.S. Through its extensive partnerships and relationships LFI continues to source profitable real estate investment & development opportunities, provide healthy returns for its capital partners, and pioneer innovative solutions for its industry.