While the visit of Amazon’s search team to Chicago this week is raising hopes the e-commerce giant will decide to build its second headquarters here , real estate experts are confident the success of the city’s megadevelopments like Lincoln Yards, Illinois Medical District and the Old Main Post Office are not wholly dependent on landing HQ2. When Bisnow was looking for experts to comment on the timing and feasibility of these projects, we connected a reporter with Jon Morgan, co-founder and managing principal at Interra Realty, a Taylor Johnson client. Click here to read Morgan’s insights about megasite development beyond Amazon.

Jon Morgan of Interra Realty says developers of Chicago’s large real estate projects, like Sterling Bay’s Lincoln Yards (pictured above), aren’t measuring success by landing Amazon HQ2. (Photo credit SOM)