Overview & Features
1111 East Touhy is a five-story, Class B office building located in Des Plaines, Illinois. The building has a two-story atrium lobby which was renovated in 2005. Construction consists of structural steel frame supporting metal and concrete floor decking and is founded on reinforced concrete spread footings. The building is enclosed with an aluminum and reflective glass curtain wall embellished with vertical concrete mullions and horizontal, pre-cast concrete parapet panel.
The roof is ballasted, singly-ply EPDM membrane. The building is fully sprinklered and equipped with a non-addressable fire alarm system. Each floor included two dedicated air-handler units (AHUs) with a cooling coil. A single centreifugal chiller provides refrigeration with chilled water to each AHU. On-grade cooling towers adjacent to the building provide heat rejection.
1111 East Touhy features an asphalt-paved parking area that borders the south and west end of the property, providing surface parking for 427 vehicles(2.88/1000 sf). This included nine hadicapped parking areas with side ramp space.
The building was built in 1975 and was last renovated in 2005.
Strategic Location
The property is located 18 miles northwest of downtown Chicago and adjacent to O'Hare International Airport, providing immediate access to and from one of the world's busiest airports. The Lee Street interchange at I-90, located immediately southeast of the Property, provides access to the entire Chicago area expressway system. This exit is the first access point west of Chicago on I-90. In addition, the property is approximately two miles west of the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) and 8.8 miles north of the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290).