Commercial property drone video in Chicago
Brokers and owners don't lose deals over photography. They lose time over the gap between what a building is and what a prospect can picture from a listing — the scale of a floorplate, how a loading dock sits relative to the street, what the light does in a space at four in the afternoon.
Stills can't close that gap. A floor plan can't either. One continuous shot through a space usually can.
What you get
Exterior aerials that put the property in context: the block, the access roads, rail and highway proximity, what's next door and what's going up nearby.
Interior FPV fly-throughs — one unbroken flight through a lobby, a floorplate, a warehouse or a build-out, so a prospect understands how a space connects instead of assembling it from fifteen photographs.
Roof and elevation imagery you can hand to an inspector or engineer. I supply the imagery; the assessment is theirs to make.
High-resolution stills pulled from the same flights, for listing sheets and offering memoranda.
The part that gets vendors fired
FAA Part 107 certified. Two million in liability coverage on indoor flights, up to five million outdoors. If your building, your tenant or your property manager needs a certificate of insurance naming them as additional insured, I can usually provide one the same day, next day at the latest.
I check the airspace before I quote, not after you've committed. Downtown Chicago is layered with controlled airspace and some of it needs authorization that takes time. You'll know whether a site is flyable before there's a date on the calendar.
Delivery is within a week.
What a large interior looks like flown
Two pieces worth watching before you decide.
Park West, a 1,000-capacity Lincoln Park venue, flown interior FPV in one continuous move from the entrance across the floor and up to the balcony. If you've tried to convey a double-height interior in photographs, this is the alternative.
A downtown high-rise unit near the Hancock — a residential interior, but a vertical downtown building with the sightlines and window-line problems that come with one.
Neither was a commercial real estate commission. They're the proof that a large or complicated interior can be shown in one take, which is what this medium is actually good at.
How a shoot runs
You send the address and what the footage needs to do.
I check airspace and any building or municipal restrictions, usually same day.
If it's feasible, you get a fixed quote with a defined scope and a delivery date.
We schedule around your access — tenant hours, security, whatever the building requires.
Footage delivered within a week, in the formats you need for listings, email and web.
Who this is for
Brokers marketing a space that doesn't photograph well. Owners repositioning a building after a capital improvement. Developers showing a site before, during or after. Property managers who want current footage of an asset rather than whatever was shot the last time it traded.
If you're marketing a standard retail box with good street frontage, you probably don't need me. Photographs do that job.
Check your property
Send me the address and what you're trying to accomplish. I'll check the airspace, tell you whether the shot you want is feasible, and quote a fixed scope and delivery date. If it isn't feasible, I'll tell you that too, before you've committed to anything.