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150 Pierce Rd

150 Pierce Road is a six-story, multi-tenant office building in the Hamilton Lakes office park in Itasca, Illinois. The Jenkins Group designed it for the developer, Hamilton Partners, as a speculative office building, meaning it had to work for tenants who had not yet been identified. The upper floors each offer roughly 29,000 to 31,000 rentable square feet, and an elevator penthouse sits above the sixth floor. The exterior is clad in light-colored panels over a darker stone base at the entrance, with wide bays of tinted glass, and glass makes up most of the exterior wall. The result is a formal corporate address whose floors can be leased whole or as separate suites.

The Jenkins Group prepared the shell-building construction documents for 150 Pierce Road and the original tenant improvements, and later documented proposed improvements to the first floor. For Hamilton Partners, the firm also produced the building's area summary under the ANSI/BOMA Z65.1 measurement standard, separating building common area, such as the lobby, mail room, fire control room, and locker and shower facilities, from floor common area, such as corridors, elevator lobbies, and toilet rooms. Vertical penetrations, such as stairs and elevator shafts, are deducted to reach rentable area. Those calculations give every tenant a consistent basis for measuring space. The firm has kept the floor-by-floor area calculations current and has since planned more than a dozen tenant projects in the building, including speculative suites, expansions, and renovations of the public corridors.