The business park is expected to employ about 2,000 skilled workers at the site east of Illinois Route 53, next to ChicagoLand Speedway and one mile south of Interstate 80, by the time it is completed in seven to 10 years. That superhighway hooks up with Interstates 55 and 57, which provide access to Chicago. Ryan, which owns and manages 5 million sf, was attracted by the site's location.

"Chicago possesses one of the nation's largest concentrations of rail, interstate highway and air transportation with an inventory of industrial product close to 1 billion sf," said Pete Harmon, Ryan's vice president of office and industrial development. "A majority of this is obsolete by today's standards."

To meet the demand for state-of-the-art industrial product, Ryan is building high-capacity electrical and data systems into their Laraway Crossings facilties, which will be able to support third-party logistics companies, such as those that fulfill e-commerce orders. "They're on the cutting edge with in-time deliver," Harmon said. "The level of automation and sophistication is phenomonal."

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