Office Space in Glenview, Illinois

Van Vlissingen and Co. represents office and medical office tenants, buyers, and landlords in Glenview, Illinois. Gordon Lamphere and our office team focus on tenant representation from 3,000 to 50,000 square feet, with leasing, sales, and property management for buildings up to 1,000,000 square feet.

Van Vlissingen and Co. performs more than 100 commercial real estate transactions annually, and our team has completed over $3 billion in transaction volume. We have operated continuously in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879, and we manage 870 acres and more than 6 million square feet across three corporate parks we developed ourselves.

Glenview Has the Newest Office Stock in the Region

Not marginally. By a factor of ten or more against every comparable suburban market we cover.

Roughly half of Glenview’s office properties were built this century, incorporating between 150,792 and 181,371 square feet depending on the measure. The class profile follows: Class C accounts for just 5.06 percent of listings here, against 41.12 percent in Oak Park.

There is a specific reason

Naval Air Station Glenview closed in 1995, and the 1,121-acre site was redeveloped as The Glen through the 2000s. That redevelopment included, in the leasing agent’s own description, “several million square feet of office space” alongside over 500 high-end residential units, a golf club, the Kohl Children’s Museum, and a town center.

Almost no other suburb in this region had 1,121 acres to build on after 1995. Glenview did, and its office inventory reflects it.

And here is the part nobody is saying

The maximum rental rate in Glenview is $19.75 per square foot.

That is $1.75 above Mount Prospect’s ceiling of $18 and roughly $2.75 above Palatine’s average of $17 — for stock 3.3 times more likely than Palatine’s, and 10.6 times more likely than Mount Prospect’s, to have been built since 2000.

For an occupier weighing a modest rent saving against building age, that comparison is the whole decision, and it is not being presented anywhere. A dollar or two per square foot buys a completely different generation of building here.

Age and class figures per CommercialCafe and CommercialSearch. Comparative figures from our Palatine, Mount Prospect, and Oak Park office pages, sourced to the same platforms. The Glen detail per TenantBase.

What That Newer Stock Actually Buys You

Building age is not an abstraction. It shows up in four places that determine what a lease actually costs and what it is like to work in.

• Floor plate efficiency. Post-2000 buildings were designed around modern layout assumptions. Load factors are generally better and the usable-to-rentable ratio is more favorable, which means you get more of what you pay for.
• Mechanical systems. A building delivered after 2000 has HVAC, controls, and distribution within design life rather than beyond it. That is fewer comfort complaints, lower operating cost, and a much smaller risk of a capital assessment mid-term.
• Power and data. Pre-2000 buildings were not designed for current equipment density. Newer stock generally is, and upgrading service in an older building is a cost and a programme rather than a line item.
• Accessibility and life safety. Buildings delivered this century were built to current standards rather than retrofitted toward them.

None of that appears on a listing sheet, and all of it appears in your operating experience and your fit-out budget.

The honest caveat

Roughly half of Glenview’s office stock still predates 2000, and Class B accounts for 79.24 percent of listings overall. This is not a market where every building is new — it is a market where the odds are dramatically better than anywhere else nearby.

We inspect the specific building rather than relying on a market average, and we measure load factors rather than accepting them. In a market split roughly half and half, knowing which half a building sits in is the job.

Medical Office Is the Largest Single Use Type

Of the office space currently available in Glenview, Medical Office is the most common use type at 4 listings, or 25 percent.

That reflects Glenbrook Hospital, cited among the village’s major employers, and a local job market showing demand for healthcare professionals alongside engineers and IT specialists. Key industries in the village run across manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and professional services, with unemployment at 4.4 percent as of 2022.

Why a quarter of listings being medical matters

Medical office is not general office with equipment in it. Plumbing in exam rooms, electrical capacity, waiting area layout, accessibility compliance, and sometimes mechanical separation all determine whether a space works for a practice, and converting general office to medical use costs considerably more than most tenants expect.

The advantage in Glenview is that a quarter of the available inventory is already fitted for it. For a practice, that means a real choice rather than a conversion project. For a general office tenant it means a portion of the market is not genuinely available to you, and the effective inventory is smaller than the listing count suggests.

We establish which is which before touring.

Use type figures per CommercialCafe. Employer and labor market detail per Regus and HQ.com. Note that Astellas Pharma, sometimes cited as a Glenview employer, has its US headquarters in neighboring Northbrook rather than in Glenview itself.

The Glen Is an Office District, Not Just a Shopping Centre

Most people know The Glen as retail. It is considerably more than that.

The 1,121-acre former naval air station site contains several million square feet of office space alongside over 500 high-end residential units, the Glen Golf Club, and the Kohl Children’s Museum. The Glen Town Center at 1820–2041 Tower Drive runs along Patriot Boulevard between Willow Road and Lake Street, anchored by Von Maur, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Landmark Theaters, with Starbucks, Yard House, Wildfire, Ema, Potbelly, Noodles & Co, and Ben & Jerry’s among the other operators.

What that means for an office tenant

A working environment with genuine amenity delivered rather than promised. Restaurants, a cinema, a department store, a golf club, and a children’s museum on the same master-planned site as the office, with over 500 residential units meaning the district has people in it outside working hours.

Access is strong: two miles from I-294, just over a mile from Route 43, and 0.6 miles from the Glen/North Glenview Metra station. The City of Glenview provides over 1,700 public parking spaces throughout the development, which removes the parking constraint that limits most amenity-rich office locations.

Our Glenview retail page covers The Glen’s retail dimension and the village’s demographics in full, including a median household income of $143,056 — second only to Lake Forest in our coverage — and an itemized 9.75 percent combined sales tax.

Prairie Glen, a separate 92-acre business park, provides a second office node in the village.

Glenview Is a Retail Market With a Newer Office Layer

Worth stating for proportion.

Office represents 20 percent of Glenview’s total commercial real estate market, against an average of 39 percent across all tracked markets. Retail runs to 1,131,611 square feet of available space and industrial to 88,132 square feet, or 12 percent against a 24 percent nationwide average.

So office is under-weighted here relative to a national norm, and retail is the dominant commercial use. That is not a weakness — a village with the second-highest household income in our coverage and a 1,121-acre master-planned district supports retail exceptionally well — but it should calibrate expectations. Total office space in the market runs to roughly 286,857 square feet plus 20 coworking locations.

Listing counts vary by platform, from 5 to 16 office listings representing between 92,546 and 129,441 square feet. Two new buildings were listed in a recent 60-day period, with four office spaces across them, which suggests genuine activity rather than a static market.

Where Is Office Space in Glenview?

• The Glen — the 1,121-acre master-planned district around Patriot Boulevard and Tower Drive, holding several million square feet of office alongside retail, residential, golf, and the Kohl Children’s Museum, 0.6 miles from the Glen/North Glenview Metra station.
• Prairie Glen — a 92-acre business park providing a second office concentration.
• The Glenbrook Hospital area on Pfingsten Road — medical office and healthcare support space.
• Downtown Glenview and the Glenview Metra station — smaller professional office in the historic core on the Milwaukee District North line.
• The Waukegan Road and Milwaukee Avenue corridors — conventional professional and service office along the principal arterials.

The Glen and Prairie Glen are planned districts with newer product and structured amenity. Downtown and the arterials carry older, smaller professional space. Given the market is split roughly half and half between pre- and post-2000 stock, which node a building sits in is a reasonable first proxy for its generation — but only a proxy, and we verify it.

Office Tenant Representation in Glenview — 3,000 to 50,000 SF

Our office tenant representation practice covers the 3,000 to 50,000 square foot range across corporate, professional, medical, and back office requirements.

For occupiers looking at Glenview, we run the full process: requirement definition, market survey across listed and off-market availability, building inspection, and comparative analysis of total occupancy cost rather than headline rent.

Four things drive a Glenview decision.

Which half of the market a building sits in. Roughly 50 percent of Glenview office was delivered since 2000 and roughly 50 percent before. That is the single largest determinant of what your occupancy actually costs and what your fit-out will run to, and a market average tells you nothing about a specific building.

Whether you are competing for medical space. A quarter of available listings are medical office. For a practice that is genuine choice; for a general office tenant it means the effective inventory is smaller than the headline count.

What amenity is worth to you. The Glen delivers restaurants, cinema, retail, golf, and residential on the same site, with over 1,700 public parking spaces. That is a real recruitment and client-hosting advantage and it commands a price. If your staff will use it, pay for it; if they will not, the arterial corridors cost less.

The Cook County tax line. As on every Cook County page we write, real estate tax is the largest variable in occupancy cost. Glenview’s combined sales tax breaks down as 6.25 percent state, 1.75 percent county, 0.75 percent village, and 1.00 percent RTA, totalling 9.75 percent — and the property tax pass-through differs materially by building. We model on a gross effective basis and examine assessment history before a letter of intent.

We negotiate the LOI and the lease — free rent, tenant improvement allowances, expansion and contraction rights, renewal and termination options, and parking. We work both sides of the table in Glenview, and we tell you which side we are on before an assignment begins.

Office Leasing, Sales & Property Management in Glenview — Buildings Up to 1,000,000 SF

For owners and investors we handle office leasing, investment sales, and property management, from single-tenant buildings to multi-building campuses up to 1,000,000 square feet.

Landlord Representation

We build and execute the leasing plan: positioning against comparables from transactions we negotiated ourselves, marketing to the regional occupier base, prospect qualification, and negotiation through lease execution. For a post-2000 Glenview building the argument to lead with is the one nobody is making — that at a $19.75 ceiling this is newer stock than Palatine or Mount Prospect at close to the same rate — and it should be made directly to tenants currently in older northwest suburban buildings approaching renewal. We report activity honestly, including when the market is telling you something you did not want to hear.

Investment Sales

Office assets trade on tenant credit, remaining lease term, building quality, and the durability of the employment base. Glenview’s case is unusually clean: a village with the second-highest household income in our coverage at $143,056, the largest share of households in the $200,000-plus bracket, a hospital anchoring 25 percent of office demand, two Metra stations, and roughly half its office stock built this century. Capital expenditure risk on post-2000 product is materially lower than on the aging inventory that dominates most suburban markets. We work with 1031 exchange buyers on identification and closing deadlines.

Medical Office Underwriting

Medical office is a more durable income stream than general office at the same rent, because relocating a practice means relocating patients and re-establishing referral patterns. Retention is stronger and lease terms are longer. Against that, fit-out costs are higher, tenant improvement allowances are larger, and re-letting a specialised suite takes longer. At 25 percent of Glenview’s available inventory, that is not a niche within this market — it is a quarter of it, and it should be underwritten on its own terms.

Who Manages Office Property in Glenview?

Van Vlissingen and Co. provides comprehensive property management for office and medical office assets in Glenview:

• Lease administration, rent collection, and enforcement of lease terms
• CAM and tax reconciliation, prepared to withstand tenant audit
• Building systems, HVAC, elevator, and life safety maintenance programs
• Janitorial, landscaping, snow removal, and parking management
• Vendor selection, contract negotiation, and performance oversight
• Monthly financial reporting, annual budgeting, and capital planning
• Tenant relations, renewal coordination, and suite turnover

Two things are specific to this market. Planned district governance: where a property sits within The Glen or Prairie Glen, the governing declaration or association agreement determines what the owner controls and what is shared, and it needs reading properly before an operating budget is set.

And medical tenant requirements: at a quarter of the market, medical office is common enough here that patient access and accessibility compliance, compliant clinical waste handling, and higher HVAC and plumbing reliability should be assumed into a management scope rather than negotiated after the first failure.

Cook County real estate tax pass-throughs are also large enough that a reconciliation error becomes a material dispute rather than a rounding one. Our Oak Lawn office page carries a published worked example: one 50,068 square foot Cook County building paid $693,878 in property tax, or $13.86 per square foot.

What Is Van Vlissingen’s Office Experience?

Van Vlissingen and Co. performs more than 100 commercial real estate transactions annually, and our team has completed over $3 billion in transaction volume.

The relevant credential for Glenview is planned-district experience. We developed and still manage 870 acres and more than 6 million square feet across three corporate parks: Corporate Woods in Vernon Hills at 340 acres and more than 60 buildings, roughly 25 percent office; Corporate Grove in Buffalo Grove at 200 acres with over 3 million square feet of office, research, high-tech, light industrial, and distribution space; and Lincolnshire Corporate Center at 330 acres.

Master-planned districts raise questions a single building does not — shared amenity allocation, association governance, maintenance budgets across multiple owners, and what a curated environment is genuinely worth in a rent negotiation. We have answered those on our own balance sheet since the mid-1980s, which is directly relevant to any assignment in The Glen or Prairie Glen.

See our full transaction history.

Why Work With Our Glenview Office Brokers?

• More than 100 commercial real estate transactions annually, and over $3 billion in team transaction volume
• A defined focus: 3,000 to 50,000 SF tenant representation and buildings up to 1,000,000 SF for leasing, sales, and management
• The building age advantage quantified and compared, because a $19.75 ceiling for post-2000 stock is the strongest value argument in the region
• Each building verified against the market’s roughly 50-50 pre- and post-2000 split rather than assumed from an average
• Medical office identified as a quarter of the market and underwritten on its own terms
• Amenity at The Glen priced against whether your staff will actually use it
• Direct experience developing and operating master-planned corporate districts
• A fourth-generation firm, continuously in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879

Nearby Markets We Serve

• Glenview sits in northern Cook County with I-294 and I-94 access and O’Hare nearby, adjoining Northbrook to the north, Wilmette to the east, Golf, Morton Grove and Niles to the south, and Northfield to the north-east. Office requirements frequently span those lines. We also broker office space in
• Skokie
• Evanston
• Des Plaines
• Lake Forest

In Glenview itself we also handle retail space, industrial space, property management, and general commercial brokerage.

Glenview Office Real Estate FAQs

Why does Glenview have newer office stock than other suburbs?

Because Naval Air Station Glenview closed in 1995 and the 1,121-acre site was redeveloped as The Glen through the 2000s, including what the leasing agent describes as several million square feet of office space. Between 47.37 and 50 percent of Glenview’s office properties were delivered in or since 2000, against 14.29 percent in Palatine, 4.46 percent in Mount Prospect, and 3.04 percent in Oak Park. Class C accounts for just 5.06 percent of listings here, against 41.12 percent in Oak Park. Almost no other suburb in this region had 1,121 acres to build on after 1995.

Is newer office space in Glenview more expensive?

Barely, and that is the argument nobody is making. The maximum rental rate in Glenview is $19.75 per square foot — $1.75 above Mount Prospect’s ceiling of $18 and roughly $2.75 above Palatine’s average of $17 — for stock 3.3 times more likely than Palatine’s, and 10.6 times more likely than Mount Prospect’s, to have been built since 2000. For an occupier weighing a modest rent saving against building age, a dollar or two per square foot buys a completely different generation of building here.

What does newer office stock actually deliver?

Four things that do not appear on a listing sheet. Better floor plate efficiency and load factors, so you get more of what you pay for. Mechanical systems within design life rather than beyond it, meaning fewer comfort complaints, lower operating cost, and less risk of a mid-term capital assessment. Power and data provision designed for current equipment density. And accessibility and life safety built to current standards rather than retrofitted toward them. The caveat is that roughly half of Glenview’s stock still predates 2000, so we inspect the specific building rather than relying on the market average.

How much of the Glenview office market is medical?

A quarter. Medical Office is the most common use type currently available, at 4 listings or 25 percent, reflecting Glenbrook Hospital and a local job market showing demand for healthcare professionals. For a practice that is genuine choice rather than a conversion project, because converting general office to medical use costs considerably more than most tenants expect. For a general office tenant it means the effective inventory is smaller than the headline listing count suggests.

Is The Glen an office location or a shopping center?

Both. The 1,121-acre former naval air station site contains several million square feet of office space alongside over 500 high-end residential units, the Glen Golf Club, and the Kohl Children’s Museum, with The Glen Town Center anchored by Von Maur, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Landmark Theaters. For an office tenant that means genuine amenity delivered rather than promised, in a district with residents outside working hours. Access runs two miles from I-294 and 0.6 miles from the Glen/North Glenview Metra station, and the City of Glenview provides over 1,700 public parking spaces throughout, which removes the parking constraint that limits most amenity-rich office locations. Prairie Glen, a separate 92-acre business park, provides a second office node.

How large is the Glenview office market?

Modest. Total office space in the market runs to roughly 286,857 square feet plus 20 coworking locations, with listing counts varying by platform from 5 to 16 listings representing between 92,546 and 129,441 square feet. Office represents 20 percent of Glenview’s total commercial market against an average of 39 percent across tracked markets, with retail dominant at 1,131,611 square feet of available space. Two new buildings were listed in a recent 60-day period, which suggests genuine activity rather than a static market.

Where is office space located in Glenview?

The Glen holds the largest concentration, around Patriot Boulevard and Tower Drive on the 1,121-acre master-planned site. Prairie Glen is a separate 92-acre business park. The Glenbrook Hospital area on Pfingsten Road carries medical office and healthcare support space. Downtown Glenview around the Metra station on the Milwaukee District North line carries smaller professional office, and the Waukegan Road and Milwaukee Avenue corridors carry conventional professional and service space.

What size office space does Van Vlissingen and Co. handle in Glenview?

Our office tenant representation practice covers 3,000 to 50,000 square feet in Glenview and across Cook County, spanning corporate, professional, medical, and back office requirements. On the leasing, sales, and property management side we handle buildings up to 1,000,000 square feet.

Who is the best commercial office broker in Glenview?

Choose a brokerage that quantifies the building age advantage rather than describing it, verifies which side of the market’s roughly 50-50 pre- and post-2000 split a specific building sits on, and has operated master-planned corporate districts rather than only brokered space in them. Van Vlissingen and Co. developed and still manages 870 acres and more than 6 million square feet across three corporate parks, including Corporate Woods in Vernon Hills at 340 acres and more than 60 buildings. We perform more than 100 transactions annually with over $3 billion in team volume, and the firm has operated in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879. Gordon Lamphere leads the office practice.

Do you manage office property in Glenview?

Yes. We provide comprehensive property management for Glenview office and medical office assets, covering lease administration, CAM and tax reconciliation, building systems and life safety programs, janitorial and parking management, vendor oversight, and monthly financial reporting. Where a property sits within The Glen or Prairie Glen, the governing declaration or association agreement determines what the owner controls and what is shared and needs reading before an operating budget is set. And at a quarter of the market, medical tenant requirements including patient access, accessibility compliance, clinical waste handling, and higher HVAC and plumbing reliability should be assumed into the management scope from the start.