NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hightower, the most complete leasing management platform for the commercial real estate industry, today announced the opening of the Chicago office, the sixth domestic office and eighth overall for the company.

“Chicago is a center of activity for commercial real estate,” CEO Brandon Weber said. “We already have over 60 million square feet of Chicago real estate on the platform. It just felt like time to set up a base of operations there and offer our customers a local support team.”

Major players already on the platform include Zeller Realty Group, Singerman Real Estate, Beacon Capital, JLL, CBRE, and Sterling Bay.

The opening of the second new office this year reflects the demand from commercial owners and brokers through the country for the Hightower platform. The company has seen steady growth in the first half of 2016, doubling total square footage on the platform since the start of the year.

The Hightower team has also demonstrated its product leadership by launching a variety of innovative new features. Most recently, the company was first to market with a new suite of retail features, an integration partnership with CompStak, andHightower Analytics, the industry’s first business intelligence product to surface and explore the data customers need to drive leasing decision-making.

“While it’s been an amazing first half to the year the product launches so far pale in comparison to what’s coming out this summer and fall,” said Donald DeSantis, Hightower’s Chief Product Officer. “As a product focused organization, we pride ourselves on delivering the right products to the right people at the right time. We have an exceptionally tight feedback loop with many of our customers, so we can build the best product.”

About Hightower

Hightower is the leading end-to-end leasing management platform for the commercial real estate industry. Hightower helps owners and brokers save time, improve visibility, and reduce risk in their portfolio. Founded in 2013, Hightower has thousands of customers from around the world using its platform, with enterprise customers including Vornado, CBRE, NGKF, Beacon Capital, Shorenstein and more. www.gethightower.com