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The former McDonald’s campus in Oak Brook. Image courtesy of JLL<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

Ace Hardware Corp.<\/strong> is renovating a building in Oak Brook, Ill., to serve as its new headquarters.<\/p>\n

The 250,000-square-foot structure, located at 2915 Jorie Blvd., was the main building on McDonald\u2019s former corporate campus. Skender<\/strong> and Environmental Systems Design<\/strong> have been hired as the contractor and engineer for the project, respectively. CBRE Design Collective<\/strong> is the project\u2019s architect.<\/p>\n

Situated on 80 acres in the Chicago suburbs, the former McDonald\u2019s campus hosts three Brutalist-style buildings, which were constructed in the 1970s and have been vacant since the fast food giant moved its base of operations to downtown Chicago in 2018. Paul Mitchell Systems co-founder John Paul DeJoria acquired the property from McDonald\u2019s<\/a> for $25.4 million the following year, amid a surge of investment<\/a> in suburban Chicago-area offices.<\/p>\n

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Upon completion of the building’s renovation and modernization, which began last month and is slated for completion in the second half of the year, the property will include workstations for employees and 150 conference rooms. Also featured will be 12 pantries and a variety of collaboration spaces and amenities.<\/p>\n

The first floor of an existing parking garage will be converted into an amenity suite that will include a fitness center, a conference center and multi-purpose room and a cafeteria, as well as a separate dining center with a commercial kitchen.<\/p>\n

Ace plans to maintain many of the original architectural features of the building, including the atrium and original lightwells. Demountable office and conference partitions will be used in lieu of less sustainable, more expensive drywall to create soundproof and private interior office space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Upgrades to the Chicago-area building, formerly occupied by McDonald\u2019s, are expected to be completed later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3154,"featured_media":1004329748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491,21782,13,21742,21747],"tags":[35093,32789,37286],"class_list":["post-1004648975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicago","category-development","category-midwest","category-latest","category-office","tag-ace-hardware","tag-cbre","tag-skender-construction"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAce Hardware Begins Renovations at New HQ - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Upgrades to the Chicago-area building, formerly occupied by McDonald\u2019s, are expected to be completed later this year.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ace Hardware Begins Renovations at New HQ\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Upgrades to the Chicago-area building, formerly occupied by McDonald\u2019s, are expected to be completed later this year.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Commercial Property Executive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CPExecutive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-02T13:01:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-02T13:01:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/06\/Former-McDonalds-campus-Oak-Brook.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"620\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fotios Tsarouhis\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@cpexecutive\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/\",\"name\":\"Ace Hardware Begins Renovations at New HQ - Commercial Property Executive\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/06\/Former-McDonalds-campus-Oak-Brook.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-02T13:01:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-02T13:01:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/98b17361e75363c0b179f1a51ccb5cc8\"},\"description\":\"Upgrades to the Chicago-area building, formerly occupied by McDonald\u2019s, are expected to be completed later this year.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/ace-hardware-begins-renovations-at-new-hq\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/06\/Former-McDonalds-campus-Oak-Brook.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2019\/06\/Former-McDonalds-campus-Oak-Brook.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":620,\"caption\":\"The former McDonalds campus in Oak Brook. 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