Always in the market for a quality grocery-anchored center, Inland Real Estate Acquisitions, LLC slowed down in 2015 and 2016, purchasing just 116 properties over a 24-month period. But the Oak Brook, Ill.-based company picked up the pace in 2017 with 87 deals in over just 12 months. Fifty-seven of the acquisitions were grocery-anchored centers, 16 were residential and 14 were office buildings. Inland paid a total of $1.4 billion for what added up to 6.4 million square feet of space in 24 states.