Office parks · Illinois

Former Sears Headquarters

Imported, unreviewedRedevelopedUnder constructionHoffman Estates, IL

Redevelopment, under construction in 2024.

Status nowUnder constructionWikipedia

What it becamedata centerWikipedia

Site size273 acresnewtypes-extraction

Last sale$194.0M · 2023public reporting

Retrofit year2024newtypes-extraction

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Finance and pipeline

Retrofit in the pipeline

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Sold since 2020

This site: 2023 Compass Data Centers research-deals · all sites with this

Place

30,000+ vehicles a day on an adjacent road

This site: 45,031 on Higgins Rd fhwa-hpms · all sites with this

County lost 10%+ of retail establishments since 2012

This site: -11% census-cbp · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 4,853 units, Cook County census-bps · all sites with this

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $2,228/mo zillow · all sites with this

Shrinking county

This site: -0.7% census-acs · all sites with this

Scale

1M+ sq ft GLA

This site: 2,300,000 sq ft newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

60+ acre site

This site: 273 acres newtypes-extraction · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

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Now

Status	Under constructionWikipedia
Strategy	Redevelopment, under constructionWikipedia
New uses	data centerWikipedia
Retrofit year	2024newtypes-extraction
Redeveloper	Compass Data Centersnewtypes-extraction

Deals and debt

Date	Event	Price	Parties	Source
2023	Sold	$194.0M closed	Compass Data Centers ← Transformco	realogicinc.com

Site context

Housing permits, Cook County (IL), 2024	4,853 units in 5+ unit buildings, 512 in 2–4, 1,142 single-family; 2023: 3,332 in 5+Census BPS
Other atlas sites nearby	1 within 10 km, 17 within 25 km: One Schaumburg Place (3.7 km)computed
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	13,577 establishments (-11%); 214,575 jobs (-4%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $340,258 (+6% 1 yr, +23% 5 yr); typical rent $2,228/mo (+5% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	45,031 vehicles a day on Higgins Rd (principal arterial, 6 lanes); 1,725 trucks; 9 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS
Site metrics	8,425 sq ft GLA per acre; FAR 0.19computed

Summary, model-written

Former Sears HQ (273 acres, Hoffman Estates, IL) sold to Compass Data Centers for $194M in 2023. Now under construction as a data center (new use), with demolition commencing in 2024. Developer confirmed.

Why. Large parcel size (273 acres) and active redevelopment status (under construction) are key factors. No yield metrics available (value_per_acre and parcel_value_total null).

Where it stands. Status: Under construction. No other context (e.g., traffic impact, housing market relevance) directly tied to the project in the record.

For a planner

273-acre site, 3.7km from operating One Schaumburg Place (per cluster data).
Traffic: Higgins Rd (6 lanes, principal arterial) handles 45k ADT (2024).
No housing market or retail trend data directly applicable to this data center project.

For a developer

Compass Data Centers owns the site post-2023 sale. GLA 2.3M sqft (redeveloped from original use).
No financial metrics (yield, value_per_acre) available in record.

What we do not know yet

No site address, exact demolition timeline, or utility infrastructure details provided.
Peer projects (e.g., Glenview Logistics Campus) are referenced but not directly relevant to this assessment.

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History and original facts

Acres	273newtypes-extraction
Gross leasable area	2,300,000 sq ftnewtypes-extraction
County	Cook County
Census division	3 · East North Central
Notes	Draft from realogicinc.com, model-extracted, unreviewed: The former Sears corporate campus in Hoffman Estates, IL, a 273-acre office park with 2.3 million square feet, is being redeveloped into a data center park with construction starting in June 2024.

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Timeline

2024 Demolition commenced
2024 Retrofit: redevelop

Sources

CRE Spotlight: The Redevelopment of the Former Sears ... - Realogic
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Former Sears Headquarters
In June 2024, a ceremony with officials from The Village of Hoffman Estates, Compass Data Centers and ComEd, the local electrical utility who will provide the massive amounts of electricity needed to power the new data centers, was held at the site to mark the start of the years-long project, and de

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Former Sears Headquarters, Hoffman Estates, IL." Record n-c09caa0e0a, imported, unreviewed. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/office-parks/il/hoffman-estates-former-sears-headquarters/ (accessed 2026-10-20).

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