Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. announced that on December 20, 2017 it acquired 440 McLean Boulevard in the Chicago Northwest submarket of Elgin, Illinois for $4.1 million in cash. The acquisition is projected to provide an initial yield of 9.7%. The 75,000-square-foot light manufacturing building is leased to Burndy Engineering, a manufacturer of equipment for the natural gas industry and a subsidiary of Hubbell Corporation. With this acquisition, Plymouth now owns a total of 22 industrial buildings in the Chicago area totaling approximately 3.7 million square feet.