Meredith is an Executive Managing Director and member of the JLL Brokerage Executive Committee. She has a diverse array of international experience in tenant representation, economic incentives, zoning and land use, acquisitions and dispositions, and development services.
Current Responsibilities
Meredith manages real estate services for Toyota Motor Corporation, AON, Takeda, Chicago Bears Football Club, HCSC (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Lowe’s Home Improvement, Chicago Transit Authority, City of Chicago, CommScope, and Alight.
Meredith is the global leader of JLL’s Economic Incentives and National Site Selection division. She represents Toyota, overseeing site selection and economic incentives for their new battery manufacturing plant in Liberty, NC. This plant spans over 1800 acres and has a value of $13 billion. Additionally, she is working with PsiQuantum on their plans to become the anchor tenant for a quantum campus to be developed at the former site of US Steel South Works in Chicago’s Southeast Side. Other noteworthy projects include Gotion's $2 billion battery plant in Manteno, IL, the 326-acre land purchase by the Chicago Bears Football Club in Arlington Heights, IL, Freyr Battery and Koch Industries’ multi-billion dollar battery plant in Coweta County, GA, Array Technologies for a new solar manufacturing facility in New Mexico, NorSun's $640 million solar wafer facility in Tulsa, the development of John Cockerill's Electrolyser Gigafactory in Houston, Lowe’s Home Improvement Global Technology Center in Charlotte, NC (creating 1,600 jobs), the joint venture between Toyota and Mazda for a $4 billion assembly plant in Huntsville, AL, and Navistar on a $500 million truck plant in San Antonio, Texas, and their $125 million engine plant expansion in Huntsville, AL.
Experience
Meredith manages real estate services for Toyota Motor Corporation, AON, Takeda, Chicago Bears Football Club, HCSC (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Lowe’s Home Improvement, Chicago Transit Authority, City of Chicago, CommScope, and Alight.
Meredith has successfully facilitated corporate relocations for numerous prominent companies worldwide. Notable examples include Toyota Motor North America's headquarters relocation (involving 7000+ jobs) from Torrance, California to Plano, Texas; Mercedes Benz's move of their headquarters from New Jersey to Georgia, impacting 1000 jobs; Zurich's 700,000sf build-to-suit project in Illinois; representing the Obama Family Foundation in the selection of the national site for President Obama's $700M Presidential Center in Chicago; and ConAgra Foods' global headquarters relocation from Omaha to Chicago.
Before joining JLL, Meredith was the Managing Director at World Business Chicago (WBC), where she was responsible for the targeting and management of corporate relocation and expansion projects for domestic and globally based companies. Meredith managed business development for the region’s technology landscape and served as a principal public-private liaison for corporate technology and entrepreneurial leadership. Meredith assisted with notable headquarters relocations for Boeing, Motorola Mobility, Google, United Airlines, Wrigley, and PepsiCo.
In addition, Meredith spent more than 10 years as Deputy Commissioner with the City of Chicago, where she founded a new unit in the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) to advocate for science and technology-based economic development.
Meredith was appointed as the youngest ever Assistant Sergeant at Arms for the Chicago City Council.
Education and Affiliations
Meredith is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the First Women’s Bank and Chairman of the Board for mHUB. She is a member of the boards of the American Red Cross, Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, YMCA, and a member of the Economic Club and Executives Club of Chicago. Meredith is also a founding member of 1871, Chief, MxD, and Chicago Women’s Book Club.
Meredith earned an MBA in finance from Loyola University Quinlan School of Business. Meredith has been a “Top Gun” revenue producer at JLL (Top 5%) for 17 years. She has also been recognized as the Global MVP and has received this honor four times and only woman recipient.
In her personal life, Meredith applies the same focus and determination that she exercises in business to her family and community. She and her husband Dan live in Chicago with their five children.
