Chris Bargowski serves as Managing Partner for Mohr Partners, Inc., in the Chicago office. Chris leads a team of experienced professionals that provides strategic portfolio services to tenants. Chris is a 25-year industry veteran and has provided a wide spectrum of real estate services for clients ranging from portfolio services, leasing, sale-leasebacks, build-to-suits and purchases of investment properties in Chicago and across the United States.
Chris specializes in working with his clients to reduce real estate costs and optimize their global footprints. As a trusted advisor, he always keeps his clients’ best interests in mind by suggesting creative solutions to meet their goals. With his extensive experience, Chris’ knowledge of market dynamics and trends provides his clients an unparalleled portfolio perspective.
As the leader of the Mohr Partners Chicago office, Chris is responsible for sourcing and cultivating relationships with high profile office and industrial clients ranging from 15 to 900 locations. His team has become the go-to experts on big box distribution requirements, representing many national clients on significant 100,000 SF+ transactions. By utilizing Mohr Partners’ tenant-only portfolio approach, Chris and the Chicago team have successfully set themselves apart from the competition.
Under Chris’ leadership, the Chicago office has become one of Mohr Partners’ top-producing team of professionals. In 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 Chicago was named “Market Office of the Year” for exceptional performance and top revenue production (out of Mohr Partners’ 20-plus national offices). Additionally, Chris was named one of the company’s Top Producers seven years in a row from 2018 to 2024 and earned three straight Power Broker honors from CoStar from 2019 to 2021.
Prior to joining Mohr Partners, Chris was Managing Director at Cresa for four years. He provided exclusive representation of tenants on their real estate portfolios. Chris initially began his real estate career with Galbreath and Jones Lang LaSalle representing landlords on their office portfolios throughout the Chicago metropolitan area.
Before his current focus on tenant representation and investment sales, Chris represented institutional office owners on projects in and around Chicago, including speculative office and build-to-suit leasing. This experience has provided Chris with great insight into the landlord’s perspective on lease negotiations, which enables him to create a competitive advantage for his clients.
CREDENTIALS AND AWARDS
- 2006 Mohr Partners’ Partners of the Year
- Mohr Partners Top Producer: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Market Office of the Year: 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- CoStar Power Broker: 2019, 2020, 2021
- Licensed Illinois Real Estate Broker
- Licensed Indiana Real Estate Broker
EDUCATION
- Michigan State University – The Eli Broad College of Business – Bachelor of Arts, Operations and Logistics Management
