Van Vlissingen and Co. represents office tenants, buyers, and landlords in Vernon Hills, Illinois. Gordon Lamphere and our office team focus on tenant representation from 3,000 to 50,000 square feet and 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, including office transactions in Vernon Hills.
We are not a firm that learned this market from a report. We developed the Corporate Woods here in Vernon Hills and still lease and manage it — 340 acres, more than 60 buildings, over 3 million square feet. We have operated continuously in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879.
Our Team’s Office Specialization In Vernon Hills
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- Tenant Representation
3,000 – 50,000 SF Spaces - Leasing, Sales, & Property Management
Buildings up to 1,000,000 SF Corporate headquarters, multi-tenant, and business park portfolios.
- Tenant Representation
Who Actually Works in Vernon Hills?
Vernon Hills carries a corporate base out of proportion to its size, and that is the defining fact of its office market.
CDW Corporation is headquartered here, at 200 North Milwaukee Avenue. CDW is a Nasdaq-listed S&P 500 component, founded in 1984, reporting $22.4 billion in revenue for 2025 and employing roughly 14,800 people worldwide. Its Vernon Hills distribution center runs to approximately 450,000 square feet.
Very few villages of this size host a Fortune 500 headquarters. For an office tenant that matters in three practical ways: the vendor and professional services ecosystem around a large technology company is already established, the labour pool includes people who moved here for those jobs, and demand for adjacent professional space is structurally supported rather than speculative.
Other significant corporate presences in the village include American Hotel Register Company, Rust-Oleum, Learning Resources, and Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation — a mix of technology, manufacturing, medical device, and consumer products that shapes office demand toward corporate headquarters, R&D-adjacent space, and technical professional uses rather than commodity suburban suites.
CDW figures from Wikipedia and CDW’s corporate site; revenue and headcount are global, not Vernon Hills specific.
Where Is Office Space in Vernon Hills?
- The Corporate Woods — a 340-acre planned development on the west side of the village, carrying more than 60 buildings and over 3 million square feet, roughly 25 percent office and 75 percent light industrial. Developed, leased, and managed by Van Vlissingen and Co. Annexed to the Village under Ordinances 543 and 544 and zoned L-1 Limited Industrial District with a planned unit development special use permit under Ordinance 545.
- Continental Executive Park — a separate planned office and business park within the village.
- The Milwaukee Avenue (Illinois Route 21) corridor — corporate headquarters, professional and medical office, and hospitality, including CDW’s own headquarters.
- The Route 60 and Townline Road corridors — smaller professional and medical suites serving residential Vernon Hills and the Hawthorn trade area.
Why the zoning matters
Corporate Woods sits in an L-1 Limited Industrial District operating under a planned unit development approval. In practice that means office, flex, R&D, and light industrial uses coexist within one park under a single set of covenants. For a tenant it widens what is possible in a given building; for an owner it means the PUD terms, not just the base zoning, govern what you can do. We read those documents before an assignment, because we wrote our part of them.
Office Tenant Representation in Vernon Hills — 3,000 to 50,000 SF
Our tenant representation practice covers requirements from 3,000 to 50,000 square feet: single-floor suites, full-floor and multi-floor requirements, headquarters relocations, and consolidations. We work only one side of a given assignment, and we say which side before we begin.
What the assignment covers
- Requirements definition — headcount projections, growth assumptions, and workplace strategy before any tour
- Market survey across listed and off-market availability in Vernon Hills and comparable Lake County submarkets
- Labor and commute analysis using the actual residential distribution of your workforce
- Financial comparison on a net effective basis, not asking rate — free rent, tenant improvement allowance, escalations, and operating expense structure all modeled
- Zoning and PUD review where a use may not be permitted as of right
- Letter of intent and lease negotiation, including expansion and contraction rights, renewal options, sublease and assignment provisions, and building services standards
- Coordination with architects, project managers, and IT through occupancy
Renewals
Most tenants renew from a position of assumed weakness. We run renewals as competitive processes, with a genuine alternatives analysis, because a landlord who believes you have options negotiates differently from one who does not.
Office Leasing, Sales & Property Management in Vernon Hills — Buildings Up to 1,000,000 SF
For owners and investors, we handle leasing and sales assignments for office buildings up to 1,000,000 square feet — single-tenant, multi-tenant, business park portfolios, and corporate campuses.
Landlord Representation
We build and execute the leasing plan: positioning against real comparables, rent and concession strategy, marketing to the regional tenant and broker community, prospect qualification, and negotiation through lease execution. We report activity honestly, including when the market is telling you something you did not want to hear.
Because we lease and manage more than 3 million square feet in the Corporate Woods, our advice in Vernon Hills comes from operating buildings in this village every day rather than from a quarterly market report.
Investment Sales
Office investment sales turn on rent roll durability, weighted average lease term, rollover exposure, tenant credit, and the true cost of deferred capital. We model those inputs directly and underwrite against transactions we negotiated rather than aggregated listing data. We represent both buyers and sellers, and we work with 1031 exchange buyers against identification and closing deadlines.
Who Manages Office Property in Vernon Hills?
Van Vlissingen and Co. provides comprehensive property management for office assets in Vernon Hills, including buildings we developed and continue to operate:
- Lease administration, rent collection, and enforcement of lease terms
- Operating expense reconciliation and pass-through billing, prepared to withstand tenant audit
- Building engineering, HVAC and life safety systems, and preventive maintenance
- 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
Increasingly the largest part of our management portfolio is third-party assignments for owners who came to us on the strength of that operating record. What they are buying is the discipline we built running our own assets through multiple market cycles.
Why Work With Our Vernon Hills Office Brokers?
- More than 100 commercial real estate transactions annually, and over $3 billion in team transaction volume
- Tenant representation from 3,000 to 50,000 SF; leasing and sales for buildings up to 1,000,000 SF
- We developed and still lease and manage the 340-acre Corporate Woods in Vernon Hills
- Working knowledge of the L-1 zoning and PUD framework that governs Corporate Woods
- Direct owner relationships that surface off-market availability
- Comparables from deals we negotiated ourselves
- In-house property management, so ownership advice reflects operating reality
- A fourth-generation firm, continuously in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879
Nearby Markets We Serve
Vernon Hills sits in central Lake County between Libertyville to the north, Buffalo Grove to the south, Mundelein to the west, and Lincolnshire to the southeast. Office requirements frequently span those lines. We also broker office space in
In Vernon Hills itself we also handle industrial space, retail space, and general commercial brokerage.
Vernon Hills Office Real Estate FAQs
What size office requirements does Van Vlissingen and Co. handle in Vernon Hills?
Our tenant representation practice covers requirements from 3,000 to 50,000 square feet. On the leasing, sales, and property management side we handle office buildings up to 1,000,000 square feet, including single-tenant assets, multi-tenant buildings, business park portfolios, and corporate campuses.
What major companies are headquartered in Vernon Hills?
CDW Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed S&P 500 component founded in 1984, is headquartered at 200 North Milwaukee Avenue and reported $22.4 billion in revenue for 2025 with roughly 14,800 employees worldwide. Its Vernon Hills distribution center runs to approximately 450,000 square feet. Other corporate presences in the village include American Hotel Register Company, Rust-Oleum, Learning Resources, and Richard Wolf Medical Instruments Corporation.
Where are the office business parks in Vernon Hills?
The principal planned developments are the Corporate Woods, a 340-acre park on the west side of the village with more than 60 buildings and over 3 million square feet, and Continental Executive Park. Additional office and professional space follows the Milwaukee Avenue and Route 60 corridors.
What zoning applies to Corporate Woods in Vernon Hills?
Corporate Woods was annexed to the Village under Ordinances 543 and 544 and zoned L-1 Limited Industrial District with a planned unit development special use permit under Ordinance 545. In practice office, flex, R&D, and light industrial uses coexist within the park under a single set of covenants, so the PUD terms rather than base zoning alone govern what is permitted.
Do you handle office investment sales in Vernon Hills?
Yes. We represent both buyers and sellers of office property in Vernon Hills, including 1031 exchange buyers working against identification and closing deadlines. We underwrite on rent roll durability, weighted average lease term, rollover exposure, tenant credit, and the true cost of deferred capital, against comparables from transactions we negotiated.
Who is the best commercial real estate broker in Vernon Hills?
Choose a brokerage with closed transactions in Vernon Hills specifically, not just regional coverage. Van Vlissingen and Co. developed and still leases and manages the 340-acre Corporate Woods here, performs more than 100 commercial real estate transactions annually, and our team has completed over $3 billion in transaction volume. The firm has operated in Chicagoland commercial real estate since 1879. Gordon Lamphere leads the office practice.
Do you manage office property in Vernon Hills?
Yes. We provide comprehensive property management for Vernon Hills office assets, covering lease administration, operating expense reconciliation, building engineering, vendor management, and monthly financial reporting. We manage more than 3 million square feet in the Corporate Woods alone.