Bureau of Asset Management

Mission

The Bureau of Asset Management provides clean, safe, secure, sustainable and accessible facilities through routine maintenance programs, capital construction projects and efficient use of real estate assets.  We service all Cook County departments and elected officials, in order that they may serve the public and perform their duties in an environment that fosters efficient, convenient and cost-effective delivery of public services.  

View the County Facilities Map prepared by Cook County Geographic Information System (GIS).

Mandates and Key Activities

• Create and manage master campus plans; Stroger Hospital Campus, Oak Forest Campus, Maywood Court house, corporate campus, Warehouse consolidation.
• Management strategy of leasing surplus asset and revenue generation where possible.
• Reorganize Department of Facility Management with on site management and building by building budgets.
• Establish a countywide ADA program to bring the county into compliance.
• Energy Efficiency Programs on court houses and warehouses.
• Modernization of life safety systems countywide.

Cook County Hospital Central Campus Redevelopment

Web Cam

Click on image above to view web cam of the new Central Campus Health Center construction site.

View Video from Beam Topping Ceremony.

Groundbreaking for new Central Campus Health Center on December 1, 2016. View Release.

• The Cook County Health and Hospital System has long been recognized, and remains today, one of the world’s great teaching hospital systems attracting physicians from around the country and serving the health care needs of the city and the region. The introduction of County Care has afforded the Central Campus the opportunity to be fiscally sound and look to the future as a national leader in health care specialties. The Cook County Board of Commissioners (on March 12, 2014), approved the engagement of a strategic professional team to address the hospital’s future needs and to leverage the inherent real estate value from the available land. The strategic development manager team  articulated the vision of the County Board President, the County Commissioners and the CCHHS leadership and provided the development parameters to help solve for CCHHS’ 1) core medical needs at Stroger Campus and 2) identify potentials for redevelopment of available real estate to both enhance the overall site, and provide revenue sources through mixed use development. 
• Redevelopment of the Old County Hospital is one component of an ambitious plan for County property on the Central campus. Two parallel RFP solicitations — one for a new clinical and professional building for the Cook County Health and Hospitals System and one for the market rate mixed-use project at Old County– were issued in November 2014 and January 2015 respectively and design teams have been selected.   Project construction will meet the County’s MBE/WBE, local hiring and prevailing wage requirements and/or goals. The team will work closely with the Chicago-Cook Workforce Partnership on outreach and training, with a focus on hiring within the community.
• For more information, please contact Jessica Caffrey, Director, Real Estate Management, Bureau of Asset Management at: Jessica.Caffrey@cookcountyil.gov, or at the project e-mail address:  CC.StrogerRedev@cookcountyil.gov.  To contact Real Estate Management by phone, please call: 312-603-0400. 
• Please go to the project website, or go to our link at the right, to keep up with all of the latest information as this project moves forward.