Ramadani named chief investment officer at Cullinan Properties

Cullinan Properties, which is currently developing a 310-acre mixed-use project in Chicagoland, has named a new member of its chief leadership group.

Toni Ramadani, who joined the East Peoria, Ill.-based company as a financial analyst in 2016, has been named its chief investment officer. He will lead all financial activity for key projects such as the RockRun Collection going up in Joliet, Ill., and will be responsible for sourcing and evaluating residential, retail and mixed-use development opportunities.

A decade ago, Ramadani did a year-long internship at Cullinan while attending the University of Wisconsin and served as a financial analyst at Allstate before returning to the company in 2016.

Also moving up at Cullinan is Ken Hinkle, who has been named senior VP of leasing. His 30-year career started at Simon Property Group, where he served as general manager of The Shops at Sunset Place in Miami. In 2021, he moved to Retail Properties of America before joining Cullinan as VP of leasing last year.

“Toni and Ken are a vital part of our current and future growth plans,” said Diane Cullinan Oberhelman, the company’s founder and CEO. “Their talents will continue RockRun Collection--as well as our many other key portfolio projects--on a path of great success.”

Cullinan manages and owns multi-family residential, office, governmental, and medical properties throughout the United States. Its key retail-based properties include The Streets of St. Charles in the St. Louis metro, The Levee District in East Peoria and Quincy Town Center in Quincy, Ill.

Just last month, Penn Entertainment broke ground on the lead anchor of phase one of RockRun Collection. Its Hollywood Casino—which will fill some 500,000 square feet of retail, restaurant, entertainment and gaming space—is expected to draw traffic from Iowa and Indiana as well as Illinois Joliet and create 550 permanent jobs.