CenterPoint Properties

In 1984, the company was launched as Capital and Regional Properties Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Capital and Regional plc.[2]

In 1993, the company acquired FCLS Investors Group and became a public company via an initial public offering.[3][2]

In March 2001, the company began development of the $58 million, 436,000 square foot Chicago International Produce Market.[4]

In July 2001, the company invested $56 million in 9 suburban buildings and sold an apartment complex, 4 industrial buildings and a 42-acre land parcel in Aurora, Illinois for $48 million.[5]

In October 2001, the company began development of O'Hare Express North.[6]

In 2001, Michael M. Mullen became president and chief operating officer of the company. In 2004, he was promoted to chief executive officer.[7]

In 2002, the company broke ground on an automotive supplier manufacturing campus in partnership with Ford Motor Company.[8]

In 2006, the co-chairman of the company, John Gates Jr., came under scrutiny for his part ownership in 2 corporate jets with one of the company's top vendors.[3]

In 2006, the company was acquired by a joint venture between CalPERS and LaSalle Investment Management.[9]

In 2008, the company began construction of the CenterPoint Intermodal Center, a 3,600 acre facility that cost $1.26 billion and opened in 2010.[10] The company also began construction of the CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center in partnership with Kansas City Southern Railroad at the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base.[11]

In 2010, the company partnered with Zimmer Real Estate Services to begin redevelopment the Kansas City Plant pursuant to a lease with the General Services Administration on behalf of the National Nuclear Security Administration.[12] In 2014, the company began an environmental review of the site.[13]

In 2011, Mullen retired as chief executive officer and was replaced by Paul Fisher, president of the company.[14]

In May 2015, the company broke ground on a 450,660-square-foot speculative building at the CenterPoint-KCS Intermodal Center.[15]

In September 2015, Caterpillar Inc. announced that it may end production at its hydraulics plant in Joliet, Illinois that is leased from the company until 2018.[16]