Industrial properties in Greater Chicago are busy places.
Employees, customers, and equipment are constantly moving at these buildings with expansive parking lots and hectic loading docks. These repetitive comings and goings are what drive these businesses' success.
But just because your commercial site is busy doesn’t mean it can’t look clean, neat, and maintained with a landscape that welcomes people in and presents a positive and professional first impression.
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Winter in Greater Chicago brings freezing temperatures, shorter days, and lots of snow and ice.
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Trees can significantly enhance your Greater Chicago commercial property. Shade trees provide lush canopies, while flowering varieties add beautiful blooms and pleasant fragrances.
They attract attention and instantly improve your property’s curb appeal, making them ideal for entryways, pathways, outdoor gathering spots, relaxation areas, and seating zones.
However, not all trees are suitable for commercial properties in Greater Chicago.
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Winters in Greater Chicago often bring a wide range of weather conditions. One day might see a light dusting of snow, while the next could bring several inches of snow plus a thick layer of ice.
Controlling ice buildup and snowfall on your commercial property becomes a key part of your management tasks. Whether you oversee an educational institution, industrial site, healthcare facility, retail center, office park, or homeowners’ association, maintaining a neat appearance and, most importantly, ensuring visitor safety are essential.
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Managing stormwater presents a significant challenge for Greater Chicago's commercial properties each year.
This involves handling stormwater drainage and regularly maintaining detention ponds. Proper detention pond maintenance is crucial to prevent safety hazards, such as flooded parking areas, wet walkways, and soggy turf, and more severe issues like erosion.
For industrial properties in Greater Chicago with extensive hard surfaces, stormwater cannot infiltrate the concrete and must instead flow to lower areas.
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We might not be able to read your mind, but we bet if we looked at your Greater Chicago commercial property wishlist, dealing with water issues is likely a top priority.
A flooded parking lot at an industrial facility, office park, retail property, healthcare site, or school does more than cause soggy feet. It can negatively affect local water quality, cause erosion, chase away customers and give the entire property a bad name.
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In the Greater Chicago area, there’s a big difference between your commercial landscape in the bright, warm summer months and your commercial landscape during those bitter, cold winter months covered in snow and ice.
As your landscape goes through these cycles, it experiences quite a bit: a surge of growth, warm, dry days, transitions, freezes and thaws, and dormancy.
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While Greater Chicago industrial property managers may be focusing on getting their work done indoors, maintaining outdoor areas is important to the bottom line, too.
In fact, neglecting your industrial property landscaping can lead to problems outdoors that can increase repair costs, as well as renovation expenses.
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Winters in the Greater Chicago area can certainly bring a wide variety of conditions. One day, you’ll get a dusting of snow, and the next you get many feet of snow with a thick sheet of ice beneath.
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*While this article offers helpful landscaping tips for residential properties, we now specialize exclusively in commercial landscaping services. If you manage a commercial property or HOA, see how we can enhance your landscape here.
We can all appreciate a nice breeze once in a while.
A soft wind can feel lovely while you’re sitting outside in your Chicago home landscape on a hot and sunny day. But strong gusts or steady, blowing high winds can not only be a nuisance, but they can also cause a bit of damage.
Chicago may be known as “The Windy City,” but it’s not the windiest. With an average wind speed of 10.3 miles per hour, it ranks as the 12th windiest in the country. But it's still quite windy.
And if you want to relax in your backyard without feeling like you’re being blown down in the process, you might be searching for how to landscape a windy area.
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