• Commercial real estate agents, investors and businesses have been showing interest in downtown Hammond now that one of the pillars of the revitalization plan, The Banc apartment tower, is open and filling up fast.

• The Chicago-based commercial real estate firm @properties Christie's International Real Estate is now representing a few properties along Hohman Avenue as developers express interest in more housing projects near the South Shore Line's future downtown station.

• @properties Christie's International Real Estate is now leasing space in the Rapchak Professional Complex and in a one-story commercial space by the erstwhile LaSalle Hotel across the street at 5268 Hohman Ave.

• There's been a spike in interest downtown since NWI Development Group transformed the former Bank Calum

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