CME Group Places Chicago Board of Trade Building Up for Sale
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CME Group Inc., the world’s largest futures exchange, is putting up for sale its 81-year-old Chicago Board of Trade Building in the city’s financial district.
The company plans to sell and lease back the main tower and Annex building, which together have 1.4 million square feet (130,000 square meters) of space, it said today in a statement. Chicago-based CME hired Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. and Holly Duran Real Estate Partners LLC, both with headquarters in the city as well, to market the buildings.