When potential customers shop at your retail center, patients utilize your healthcare facility, employees work at your office park, or homeowners drive into your HOA, you want them to notice your property in a positive and productive way.
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Kevin Manning
Kevin has deep roots in the Chicagoland area, growing up in Plainfield and now residing in Naperville. He holds a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Illinois and serves on the board for the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association (ILCA). Since KD's inception in 1998, Kevin has loved creating outdoor environments to match the lifestyles of thousands of customers. In his spare time, you can find him spending time on the water with his wife, daughter, son, and labradoodle.
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A Greater Chicago commercial property with its shade trees, vast turf expanses, and gathering nooks surrounded by buildings is a unique environment. Visitors get a chance to conduct business while taking in the outdoors and navigating your site.
Landscaping is a big part in attracting more people to your facility, but, if not maintained properly, it can also detract people from your site.
This means you have to stay on top of landscape-related issues.
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Every season, your Greater Chicago commercial property needs special maintenance. This is even true during the winter when temperatures are dropping.
Winter’s colder climate, snow buildup, and ice accumulations can wreak havoc on your commercial facility and landscape in which you’ve invested time and money.
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As summer winds down, your Greater Chicago commercial landscape is getting ready for those cooler temperatures of fall, when it can take a sigh of relief and regroup, preparing to hunker down for the winter months.
And despite what weather Mother Nature delivers, you need your facility to look good, which is where the right commercial landscape maintenance comes in.
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Your commercial landscape in Greater Chicago experiences a lot through every season.
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You might notice that it’s getting pretty hot out there.
Sure, summer might be great for you; you can escape the sweltering humidity by sneaking inside an air conditioned building. But have you thought about what the intense heat and dryness can do to your residential or commercial lawn?
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As the weather cools and fall approaches, you may start to think less about your landscape.
But this is actually a great time of year to think about landscape installation in Frankfort, IL. Autumn’s shorter days, less intense sunlight, more rain and cooler temperatures all provide a better planting environment.
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As an industrial facility manager, you never know what to expect with Greater Chicago winters. It can go from just a dusting of snow for weeks to multiple inches and a massive sheet of ice seemingly overnight.
It makes you wonder how much of a priority you should give to planning for it and ideally what time of year to hire a snow removal company.
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Whether you manage an office park, retail center, industrial facility, or other type of commercial property, you likely notice how shrubs can make a big difference in adding pops of color, unique texture, and interesting elements to the landscape.
However, there are numerous options available, which can make choosing commercial shrubbery overwhelming. You certainly don’t want to install plants that don’t do well in your space or make your property look bad.
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Everyone likes a little color in their lives. This is especially true with landscapes in commercial settings.
Amazing blooms bursting with bountiful, bright, bold hues add visual appeal and intrigue to your Greater Chicago office park, retail center, industrial property, warehouse or other commercial site.
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