Full-Service Retail Development · Nationwide
We help retailers expand into the right locations — with confidence.
Indigo Development is built by former retail brokers turned developers. We know what successful retailers need to grow, and what it takes to bring a project from an idea to a grand opening.
About Indigo Development
Former retail brokers. Now full-service developers.
At Indigo Development, we help retailers, restaurants, banks, medical users, and service-oriented brands expand into the right locations with confidence.
What makes Indigo different is simple — we are former retail brokers turned developers.
For more than 20 years, we've represented tenants, negotiated hundreds of transactions, evaluated thousands of locations, and worked alongside landlords, municipalities, lenders, investors, and national retailers. That experience gives us a unique understanding of what successful retailers need to grow — and what it takes to bring a project from an idea to a grand opening.
Today, we leverage that experience to provide full-service retail development throughout the United States. Every project is approached with one objective: to create exceptional retail locations that generate long-term value for our clients and their customers.
Why Indigo?
Success starts long before construction begins.
It starts with finding the right location.
Using sophisticated mapping technology, proprietary site selection methods, demographic analysis, traffic data, and extensive field research, we identify high-performing retail sites before they become obvious to the market.
Our brokerage background allows us to evaluate every property from the tenant's perspective. We understand visibility, access, traffic patterns, co-tenancy, trade areas, customer behavior, and the real estate metrics that drive store performance.
Our Competitive Advantage
Everything a retailer needs to grow, under one roof.
Former Retail Brokers
We understand tenant requirements because we've represented retailers for over two decades.
Superior Site Selection
Finding exceptional locations is our specialty — through GIS mapping, demographics, traffic counts, and market intelligence.
National Brokerage Relationships
Our nationwide broker network provides access to marketed and off-market opportunities.
ICSC Network
Active relationships with retailers, landlords, developers, brokers, and industry professionals across the country.
Capital & Financial Relationships
Strong relationships with banks, lenders, equity partners, and private investors help move projects forward.
Full-Service Execution
From site selection through construction, Indigo manages every phase of development.
What We Build
From single-tenant pads to multi-tenant centers.
Build-to-suit development for retail, restaurant, banking, medical, and service brands — coast to coast.
Our Approach
We find high-performing sites before they become obvious to the market.
Sophisticated mapping technology, proprietary site-selection methods, demographic analysis, traffic data, and extensive field research — evaluated from the tenant's perspective.
Retailers & Partners
Trusted by leading national and regional brands
Backed by decades of brokerage relationships across the retail, restaurant, service, and automotive sectors.
Our Vision
Great retail development isn't about building buildings.
It's about creating opportunities for retailers to succeed. Our vision is to become one of the nation's premier retail development companies by consistently identifying exceptional locations, executing projects with precision, and building long-term relationships with clients and partners.
We combine technology with real-world experience, data with local market knowledge, and relationships with execution. From market analysis and site selection to land control, entitlements, leasing, financing, and construction, Indigo Development delivers a complete development platform built around one objective.
Helping our clients grow — one exceptional location at a time.
Guiding Principles
The standards behind every project.
01Integrity
We build lasting relationships through honesty, transparency, and trust.
02Accountability
We take ownership of every project and every outcome.
03Execution
Ideas create opportunities. Execution creates results.
04Innovation
We continually seek smarter strategies and better processes.
05Reliability
Clients can depend on us at every stage of development.
06Consistency
We deliver the same high standard of service on every project.
Start a Project
Let's find your next exceptional location.
Whether you're planning a single build-to-suit or a national expansion, our team is ready to help you move from idea to grand opening.
Development Contact
Chicago, IL 60654