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Article: An homage to Mies.(Focus: Commercial Real Estate)

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March 19, 2007
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Beitler Real Estate Corp. Location: 875 N. Michigan Ave., 21st floor

Designer: Powell/Kleinschmidt Inc.; Robert Kleinschmidt, design principal, William Arnold, project designer, John Padmore, project architect, Alyssa Simons, designer Size: 6,200 square feet Employees: 13

SPECIAL FEATURE: Mr. Beitler keeps a mint-condition 1952 Schwinn Phantom bicycle in his office. It cost $12,000.

What makes it cool The office of Chicago real estate developer J. Paul Beitler Jr. is an homage to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. There are three larger-than-life photographic murals of the famed Chicago architect and his work in the office, which is bathed in red paint.

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