Seventy-Five Years of Customer Service in Property Management and Trade Show Production

For 75 years, Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI) has been North America’s specialist in marketing support of buildings with wholesale showrooms. MMPI acts as a market maker for the industries it serves, bringing together wholesalers, retailers and consumers. In this capacity, MMPI is both a property manager and trade show producer, divisionally organized by the industries housed in its buildings and represented at its events.

Each year, MMPI hosts dozens of major trade shows and more than 300 conferences, seminars and special events throughout North America. These events bring tenants and exhibitors the customers they seek. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, MMPI provides its tenants with responsive, on-site management. MMPI supplies its tenants, their employees and visitors with a unique combination of business services and amenities to meet all needs efficiently on site.

Operating with Remarkable Talent

Partnership marketing is what we call MMPI’s design center and trade show marketing philosophy. As partners with our showrooms and exhibitors, MMPI’s success is based on their success and we construct our marketing programs as a platform on which they can build their own events.

Our full-time staff of more than 475 professionals are skilled in the management, marketing and day-to-day operations of our facilities. All services are performed in-house by this highly competent team of staff members that comprise: Construction • Finance/Accounting • Housekeeping • Information Services • Legal • Maintenance • Marketing • Marketing Communications • Materials Handling • Meeting Planning • Office and Retail Leasing • Operations • Public Relations • Sales/Leasing • Security

Staff members are recruited with specialized industry experience, bringing to MMPI not only their recognized talents but contacts and relationships with key industry leaders. MMPI’s staff draws its experience from a vast array of related industries and associations, including Baker, Bloomingdale’s, Brunschwig & Fils, Enesco, Ferguson Enterprises, Haworth, Inc., Henredon, Herman Miller, International Facilities Management Association, International Interior Design Association, Kimball International, The Kohler Company, Masco, National Restaurant Association, SieMatic Corporation, Stark Carpet, Steelcase, Inc. and Wood-Mode.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Design Centers:
Design centers, an outgrowth of merchandise marts, house high-end interior design furnishings showrooms catering to affluent consumers who source their purchases through design professionals such as interior designers and architects. The Merchandise Mart houses the oldest, largest, and one of four premier design centers in the United States. Other design centers include: the L.A. Mart®, the A&D Building in New York and the Washington Design Center in Washington, D.C.

Merchandise Marts:
Merchandise Marts are industry buildings whose wholesale showrooms are enhanced not only by proximity to others in the same industry, i.e. furniture, gift, apparel, but also as a result of market events or trade shows whose attendance is based upon factors which include a critical mass of showroom tenants. The Merchandise Mart is the first and largest merchandise mart in the United States and is home to dozens of trade shows. Industry buildings attract tenants whose businesses are enhanced by proximity to others in the same industry. These buildings offer specialized services, i.e. medical and dental practice buildings, jewelry buildings, toy buildings, gift buildings and furniture showroom buildings. Market Centers are merchandise mart buildings or complexes that house multiple industries. The Merchandise Mart in Chicago is one of three market centers in the United States.

Office/Retail Management:
MMPI management also leases, markets, and handles day-to-day operations for office and retail spaces in its buildings. MMPI manages The Merchandise Mart, 350 West Mart Center and 33 N. Dearborn in Chicago, the Washington Design Center and Washington Office Center in Washington D.C., totaling over 2.8 million sq. ft. of office space. The Mart’s retail component offers office and showroom tenants merchandise such as clothing, books, greeting cards, wine and gourmet products, along with a bank, post office, dry cleaners and hair salon.

Construction/Development:
On behalf of our tenants, MMPI maintains a full construction management services staff, which is deeply involved in supervision of construction at all properties. MMPI has supervised the construction and renovation of more than 10 million sq. ft. of space. In the last decade, more than 14 full floors of The Merchandise Mart have been completely renovated.


Merchandise Mart, Chicago

High Point

Suites at Market Square

Plaza Suites

Washington Design Center, Washington, D.C.

A&D Building, New York

350 West Mart Center/Chicago Apparel Center

Kitchen & Bath Center
  Chicago, IL
  Washington, D.C.
  New York, NY

L.A. Mart

7 W New York

TRADE SHOWS

Trade shows are generally traveling versions of showroom-like presentations in which businesses do not need a year-round showroom presence. Companies display their products and services in a temporary facility, such as Pier 94 or McCormick Place, for brief "markets" or trade shows. Some merchandise marts have their own trade show facilities and host their own shows. These exhibitions in temporary space are used to supplement and enhance business conducted in permanent space. The Merchandise Mart holds exhibitions for the following industries:

Antiques • Bridal • Casual Furnishings • Commercial Furnishings • Gifts & Home Accessories • Menswear • Residential Furnishings • Women's & Children's Apparel

Trade Shows NeoCon  NeoCon East LADesignWeek/NeoCon XPress  IIDEX/NeoCon Canada High Point Women's & Children's Chicago Apparel Market Gift & Home Market  Chicago Collective  The National Bridal Market  STYLEMAX    International Casual Furniture & Accessories Market Toronto DesignWeek  Gift and Home Furnishings Market at the L.A. Mart The New York Home Textiles and Housewares Week The New York Table Top Week

Consumer Events Architectural Digest Home Design Show Chicago International Antiques & Fine Arts Fair Capital Cooks!  DesignHouse  One of a Kind Show and Sale Chicago Dream Home Dining by Design Interior Design Show Exhibitor Services To download our Corporate Capabilities Brochure, please click here .