Four-story office building planned at Hammond's Oxbow Landing

HAMMOND | A four-story office building is the latest addition to Hammond's Oxbow Landing, a major redevelopment project at Interstate 80/94 and Kennedy Avenue.

Holladay Properties plans to build Hammond River Park, a 60,000-square-foot Class A office building that will be visible from the heavily trafficked interstate and bring more white-collar jobs to Hammond. The South Bend-based developer is also responsible for the business parks AmeriPlex at the Port, in Portage, and AmeriPlex at the Crossroads, in Merrillville.

The project will be high-end. Office space is graded from Class A to Class C, and Class A office space is considered high-quality with state-of-the-art amenities and premier tenants.

Traditionally, much of the new Class A office space in Northwest Indiana has gone up on or near U.S. 30. But Holladay has found success building Class A office space along the Borman in the AmeriPlex at the Port business park, where retailers, restaurants and light manufacturers also are located.

Holladay's new office building adds to Oxbow Landing, which the city of Hammond has been redeveloping since demolishing the crime-plagued River Park Apartments in 2006.

New construction has started to go up. Buffalo Wild Wings recently opened a 7,000-square-foot sit-down restaurant, the first in Northwest Indiana with a new sports stadium design. Byway Brewing Co. also plans to open a microbrewery on the site after Flossmoor Station's plans for a second brewpub there fell through.

Plans for a four-story, 100-room Hampton Inn have also been announced for the 23-acre site on the Little Calumet River.

Holladay Properties is marketing the new Hammond River Park office building, just three miles from the Illinois border, as an alternative to the South Suburbs of Chicago office market and touts the many restaurants nearby.

The multi-tenant building offers spaces between 1,500 square feet and 60,000 square feet at a rate of $16.75 per square foot.

The developer is now pre-leasing. For information, contact Mike O'Connor at (219) 764-3104.

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Four-story office building planned at Hammond's Oxbow Landing