JOYCE M. SLONE, SIOR, CCIM, Founder, Principal, and Managing Broker of SLONE COMMERCIAL LLC, is the architect of a highly successful career in the commercial real estate industry. She has served clients on both sides of the real estate transaction, providing hands-on assistance, market expertise, and competitive advantage in cultivating, structuring, and closing deals. Joyce was one of the first women in the Chicagoland area to be recognized by both the Society of Industrial Realtors (SIOR) and the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute (CCIM), earning their respective designations as a top professional in the trade.

Born into a real estate family, Joyce developed an interest in helping others at a young age. She gained an appreciation for the real estate business while working at her father’s construction and development company, and saw how a company’s choice of space could drive growth. Joyce set out on a professional path that included executive appointments at some of the world’s top real estate brokerage powerhouses, and ultimately led to the creation of her own firm. Since entering the profession, Joyce has negotiated more than 600 leases and 50 build to suits, part of a total value of brokerage transactions in excess of $450 million.

To her practice, Joyce brings patience, empathy, and an undeniable passion for helping her clients make the best possible real estate decisions. Known for her extensive industry knowledge creativity in solution design, and responsiveness, Joyce is a quick builder of trust whose collaborative approach and commitment to excellence in customer service is evident throughout the deal process. In emphasizing long-term professional relationships, Joyce has assembled an extensive network of advisors, specialists, and current clients upon whom she can call to create greater value for those she represents.

Joyce Slone was born into a real estate family. For the first 10 years of her career, she worked full time as Secretary/Treasurer of her family’s construction and development firm, W.E. Erickson Construction, Inc., in Elmhurst, IL. After more than 25 years of real estate experience with some of the most prominent commercial brokerage and development firms, Joyce M. Slone formed her own firm, Slone Commercial, LLC. Prior to forming her own firm, Joyce served as Director of Portfolio Leasing for Schiller Park, IL-based Northern Builders, Inc., one of the largest full-service development and construction firms in the Midwest. During her two and a half years with Northern, she was responsible for the leasing, management and profitability of the company’s 6,000,000 SF office and industrial portfolio. During her tenure, she signed more than 50 industrial and office leases.

Professional Experience





Joyce has held executive positions at some of Chicago’s oldest and most respected industrial local, regional and global brokerage firms and was consistently recognized as a top producer, racking up a track record of sale, lease and build-to-suit transactions, valued in excess of $425 million. Those firms include:

• 2 years: Cushman & Wakefield of Illinois, Inc., Industrial Division, Rosemont, IL

• 4 years: Podolsky Northstar Realty Partners, LLC, Brokerage Division, Westmont, IL

• 5 years: Paine/Wetzel Associates, Inc., Industrial Brokerage, Chicago office

• 5 years: Arthur J. Rodgers & Company, Industrial Brokerage, Oakbrook Terrace, IL

During her career, she has represented a wide range of real estate clients for which she provided advisory and brokerage services, arranged financing, coordinated infrastructure improvements, marketed build-to-suit opportunities, and represented corporate tenants as well as owners and developers of major business parks:

• Corporate Clients: DesignPac, Inc.; Ryder Logistics; Sara Lee; M&M Party Rental; Hunter Panels; The Money Store Investment Corporation; Central States Trucking; Monsanto Corporation; Krusinski Construction, Plumrose USA,

• Owners & Developers: Opus North Corporation; Duke Realty Corp.; IDI; The Rockefeller Group; CenterPoint Property Trust; Aurora Venture, a division of CC Industries; First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.; AMB Property Corporation; Northern Builders; Financial Consultants, School District 205, Elmhurst, IL; Keating Resources, LLC.

Summary of Development Projects





• Since 1978 closed sale, lease and build-to-suit brokerage transactions, valued at $450 million

• 2,300,000 total square footage of all brokerage transactions

• Negotiated more than 600 leases

• Sold over 1,300 acres of land

• Negotiated over 50 build-to-suit transactions

• Managed 25 facilities with more than 100 tenants

• Represents corporate tenants and owners and developers

• Has more than 15 years of construction and development experience

One of only 750 real estate professionals in the world to hold both the SIOR and CCIM designations



Professional Association



Joyce is well known and respected in commercial real estate circles not only for her outstanding business achievements, but also for her years of dedicated service and tireless activism with industry organizations at both the local and national levels. She is one of only 750 real estate professionals in the world to hold both the SIOR and CCIM designations. Memberships include:

• Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) since 1992

• National Membership Council Director (2007-2009)

• National Vice Chairman of Membership Development and Retention Committee

• National Chairman, Membership Development and Retention Committee

• National Chairman, New Member Welcoming Committee

• National Chair, Admissions

• National Nominating Committee 2004-2006, 2009-2011

• Regional Vice President, Midwest Region, 2002-2004

• President, Chicago Chapter, 2001

• Vice President, Chicago Chapter, 2000

• Treasurer, Chicago Chapter, 1999

• Secretary, Chicago Chapter, 1998

• Chairman, Chicago Chapter Membership Committee

• Member, Task Force Committees

• National Association of Realtors Task Force

• National Admissions Policies & Procedures Committee

• Executive Membership Task Force

• Certified Commercial Investment Membership (CCIM) since 1990

• Member, National Designation Committee since 1992

• Co-Chair, CCIM International Conference in 2000

• Member, Chicago Chapter CCIM Board of Directors

• Association of Industrial Real Estate Brokers (AIRE) since 1986

• Chair, Annual Golf Outing

• Member, Board of Directors

• Chair, Developer’s Showcase

• Lambda Alpha International Association since 2006

• Northern Illinois Commercial Association of REALTORS (NICAR) since 1995

Community Activities





• Elmhurst Economic Development Corporation, Executive Board Member, 1999-2004

• Commissioner for the Elmhurst Planning and Zoning Committee 2004 - 2012

• Elmhurst Chamber of Commerce member since 2001, Board Member since 2007

• Elmhurst Rotary Board Member since 2004, Board Member 2007-2009

Professional Honors





Joyce is a native of Elmhurst, IL, attended Elmhurst College. A licensed real estate broker in Illinois since 1979, she has won many real estate industry awards including the following:

• Largest Transaction with a Platinum Sponsor in 2004: SIOR Chicago Chapter

• President’s Award for Outstanding Service in 2004: SIOR Chicago Chapter

• Industrial Transaction of the Year in 1999: NICAR

• Largest Single Office Lease in 1994: CCIM Illinois Chapter

• Most Inter-Chapter Transactions in 1994: CCIM Illinois Chapter