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Originally Posted by ardecila
haha... I'm assuming the "leased building" is actually the Wrigley Innovation Center. That tells me the much-vaunted Innovation Center, up until now, has been a whole lot of empty square footage.
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It's not just a Wrigley innovation center, it is the HQ of Wrigley. Remember Mars acquired them recently. The last time I drove by there, a year or so ago, the signage suggested the building was Wrigley's, so I assumed this article was referring to a nearby building. It is possible with changes after the Mars merger that a sizeable block of space has become available; this building could be very suited to a manufacturing r&d center.
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Originally Posted by ardecila
I wonder if this will push the city to invest in infrastructure on Goose Island. The streets are atrocious, they can't even rebuild that damn rail crossing on Division which is currently a pothole the size of a bus. There's also the bridges on Division, which are awesome and industrial but hopelessly outdated.
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The only significantly objectionable streets there are Division (from bridge to bridge) and the Halsted viaduct at Chicago. Halsted Street itself was redone very recently when the new bridge was built, and North Branch Street (the only other route for traversing the island) is excellent. I wonder about Division too, but I always assumed CDOT was waiting until the bridge replacement project.
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Originally Posted by Mr Downtown
after hundreds of millions in public investment, the island is today home to warehouse operations employing literally dozens of workers.
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FedEx has their main downtown distribution center there; there is a huge institutional restaurant warehouse (Jetro); Mercedes of Chicago has a giant service facility there, and Perillo or some other luxury dealer has some kind of a facility there; Calumet Photographic has a big store there; etcetera, etcetera. Maybe it failed to hit quadruple digits, but calling it dozens sounds a little too sarcastic even for you.
By the way, is that Greyhound facility being fully utilized? Have there been any redevelopment plans for it? I feel like it was in the news once before the crash. It looks like a crumbling waste of real estate.