USOC considers HQ move to Chicago

Well at least if Chicago can't have the Olypmics in the next decade Chicago can have the headquarters of the US Olympic Committee. From Crain's...

On the heels of its efforts to lure the 2016 Summer games here, the Daley administration has opened talks with the USOC about moving its headquarters here from Colorado Springs, Colo., where the committee has been based since 1978, according to sources familiar with the talks.

The USOC’s real estate consultant, James H. Didion, World Business Chicago chief Paul O’Connor and others toured about a half-dozen downtown office towers last month, seeking about 100,000 square feet of office space and about 3,000 square feet of street-level retail or showroom space, those sources say.

In 2001, Mr. Didion retired as chairman of California-based commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis Inc., where USOC Chairman Peter V. Ueberroth was a director.

The identities of the Chicago buildings on the tour could not be confirmed. Other cities on the USOC’s list also could not be confirmed. Sources say the search is in the initial stages, and probably will not be completed for several months.