IFF’s Real Estate Consulting group has created high quality, welcoming space that better serves clients' needs and supports the community.

	Video: There's Something About a Space In 2003, IFF and the Grand Victoria Foundation entered into a partnership called Building Blocks. One component of the initiative is early care and education classroom renovations. This video demonstrates the impact of this initiative. File format: Flash File size: 17MB File length: 4m 25s [Play video] This video requires the Flash plugin. If needed, follow the instructions to install Flash on your computer.
	Access Living IFF was hired to assess the feasibility of creating a permanent headquarters for the agency’s staff and clients, and later to manage site selection and construction of a new facility. [PDF 638KB]
	Carole Robertson Center for Learning The 21,000-square-foot, 12-classroom Little Village Family Resource Center was developed to meet the acute need for child care in Chicago’s Little Village community. [PDF 122KB]
	Centers for New Horizons The 21,000-square-foot Effie Ellis Community Center contains 12 classrooms serving approximately 200 children in Chicago’s Kenwood and surrounding communities. [PDF 610KB]
	Charles H. Shaw Technology and Learning Center, home of Henry Ford Academy Power House High IFF was approached to evaluate adaptive reuse options for the decommissioned, 100-year-old Sears, Roebuck & Company Power house in North Lawndale and was asked to manage every aspect of the project. [PDF 309KB]
	Children’s Home + Aid Society Children’s Home + Aid didn’t hesitate to step forward as the provider when IFF and the City of Chicago identified West Englewood as a high-need community for child care and early education. [PDF 2.0MB]
	Children’s Home + Aid Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center CH+A came to IFF for assistance developing its Marletta Darnall Schaumburg Child + Family Center. CH+A hired IFF as owner’s representative to see their project through to completion and relied on IFF for a $1M bridge loan when state funds were suspended. IFF skillfully worked through major hurdles that ultimately saved CH+A money. [PDF 271KB]
	Concordia Place Concordia Lutheran Church wanted to provide intergenerational programs and community space for families in Chicago’s northwest side Avondale neighborhood. IFF provided project management services to renovate a former church and parochial school building and construct an annex. [PDF 216KB]
	Countryside Senior Apartments Working with leaders from the Township of Lyons, the Community Memorial Foundation decided to create an affordable option to allow seniors to stay in their communities, and brought in IFF to help. IFF planned, helped finance, and developed Countryside Senior Apartments, a 70-unit affordable rental housing development for independent seniors. [PDF 248KB]
	Erie Family Health Center Erie Family Health has engaged IFF to assist with the full spectrum of their real estate needs—from feasibility assessments, to site searches, to owner’s representative services. [PDF 198KB]
	Heartland International Health Center and Heartland Health Outreach The centers sought IFF’s assistance to develop a Strategic Facilities Plan to help identify the best solution for additional space needs. IFF analyzed the centers’ program finances, assessed their growth goals, evaluated potential sites for relocation or expansion, and prepared a demographic analysis. Recommendations and next steps included a phased plan for facilities development with estimated costs and financing scenario for each phase. [PDF 204KB]
	Howard Area Community Center Preserving and rehabilitating an older building that had previously been used for offices and warehouse space, IFF managed the construction of the Sheila Berner Community Center, a beautiful new facility that meets the highest standards of child care. [PDF 174KB]
	Inspiration Corporation - Inspiration Kitchens Garfield Park Inspiration Corporation chose IFF to plan and manage the construction of its fourth site, a 60-seat restaurant in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood that will allow Inspiration Corporation to expand the Inspiration Kitchens social enterprise. [PDF 300KB]
	Lakeview Pantry IFF identified space in the heart of the pantry's gentrified Chicago community, assessed financial feasibility for the site, hired the architect and contractor and managed construction. The new space reflects Lakeview Pantry’s mission to treat all program participants with dignity and respect. [PDF 160KB]
	Marwen IFF managed design and construction of Marwen’s 11,500-square-foot permanent home in Chicago’s burgeoning and expensive gallery district. The end result was a space that Marwen and its students could be proud of, rivaling the quality and beauty of nearby loft and gallery spaces. [PDF 111KB]
	Metropolitan Family Services IFF managed construction of the new Children’s Center. The center's completion was the final piece of a major community revitalization project on Chicago's southwest side that includes new commercial, residential, and senior facilities. [PDF 121KB]
	The Night Ministry Appropriately locating interim and transitional housing within a community is challenging. IFF staff identified an ideally-located property, negotiated a purchase agreement, assisted TNM through a complicated acquisition process, and managed the building's renovations. [PDF 524KB]
	Noble Network of Charter Schools IFF has assisted Noble in all aspects of its facility and financing needs, including front end planning, finding suitable sites for its campuses, negotiating the lease or purchase of sites, overseeing design, and providing oversight during construction. [PDF 289KB]
	One Hope United - Aurora Early Learning Center Aurora was identified as an area of high need for early child care and education in IFF's statewide assessment of Illinois, Moving Towards A System. To address this need IFF, One Hope United, and the City of Aurora engaged the community to plan and develop the Auora Early Learning Center. [PDF 367KB]
	One Hope United - Elgin Child and Family Resource Center IFF, with the support of Grand Victoria Foundation and the City of Elgin, engaged all sectors of the community over a four-year period to plan and develop a new, two story, 21,400-square-foot child and family resource center. [PDF 144KB]
	The Resurrection Project IFF, in partnership with The Resurrection Project, Holy Cross IHM Parish and Chicago Commons Association, initiated an effort to build a new family resource center in Chicago's Back-of-the-Yards/New City community, an area previously served by only one small child care center. [PDF 108KB]
	St. Leonard’s Ministries The 16,200-square-foot Michael Barlow Center was completed two months early and under budget. The Center is realizing its full potential with tutoring, an alternative high school, a computer lab, job skills training, and job placement and retention services. [PDF 648KB]

Please click here to read about the work IFF's Lending group has done for our borrowers.