Keith Puritz
Vice Chair, Cushman & Wakefield
Rosemont, IL 60018
Industrial Market Specialist
Phone (847) 720-1366
Mobile (847) 710-3242
Industrial Market Specialist
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Flex
Markets
Chicago
Bio
Keith Puritz is an Executive Director at Cushman & Wakefield and brings 30 years of commercial industrial real estate experience to the firm. During his career, he has closed more than $2.75 billion in sale and lease transactions. Keith has extensive experience and expertise in industrial property acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, land transactions, investment sales and build-to-suit projects. Prior to joining the firm, Keith was at CBRE from 2002-2014 and Cushman & Wakefield from 1988-2002.
Keith has earned a number of distinguished awards throughout his career. From 2002-2014, he was a member of CBRE’s top industrial team in Chicago. He was also honored as CBRE’s top industrial producer in Chicago four times (2002, 2004, 2005, 2009) and ranked second on seven occasions. He also ranked as Cushman & Wakefield’s #1 industrial producer in 2000 and 2001, and the firm’s “Top 100” for all brokerage professionals in the U.S. every year between 1995 and 2001. Keith has received several nominations for NAIOP Industrial Transaction of the Year, winning with colleague Brett Kroner in 2011 and 2017, as well as Industrial Build-to-Suit of the Year, Suburban Office Build-to-Suit of the Year, and Industrial Redevelopment of the Year. In 2005 and 2009, he was named Industrial Broker of the Year by the Greater Chicago Food Depository, and was a finalist for the same award five other times.
Significant Assignments
Mr. Puritz served as the account director for Procter & Gamble, responsible for acquisitions and dispositions for their U.S. industrial portfolio. During this time he was involved in 3.2 million square feet of build-to-suit transactions throughout the United States, including a 1.7 million square foot office/warehouse build-to-suit facility outside of Scranton, PA. He also served as the account director for Waste Management, overseeing the distribution of over forty surplus properties throughout the United States and Canada.
Achievements
NAIOP Industrial Speculative Development of the Year, Bridge Point North I, 2017
Top Industrial Team at CBRE Chicago, 2002-2014
CBRE Chicago Chairman's Circle, 2008-2014
CBRE #1 Industrial Producer Chicago, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009
CBRE #2 Industrial Producer Chicago, 2006-2008, 2010-2013
Cushman & Wakefield's #1 Industrial Producer, 2000, 2001
Cushman & Wakefield's "Top 100" for all brokerage professionals in the U.S., 1995-2001
NAIOP Industrial Transaction of the Year Nominee, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008-2014, 2018
NAIOP Industrial Build-to-Suit of the Year Nominee, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008-2014, 2018
NAIOP Suburban Office Build-to-Suit of the Year Nominee, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008-2014, 2018
NAIOP Industrial Redevelopment of the Year Nominee, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008-2014, 2018
Greater Chicago Food Depository Industrial Broker of the Year, 2005, 2009
Greater Chicago Food Depository Industrial Broker of the Year Finalist, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008-2012
NAIOP Industrial Transaction of the Year, Follett Corp, 2011
Director of National Industrial Services Advisory Council
Member of Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
Member of National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
Member of Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE)
Professional Affiliations/Accreditations
Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE)
