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Produce Market Expansion Talks Already Begun

CHICAGO-Work is just beginning on the $58.4-million, 436,224-sf Chicago International Produce Market to replace historic but obsolete South Water Market. So is talk of expansion, even though ground has just been broken.

By Mark Ruda | Updated on June 13, 2001

CHICAGO-The ceremonial first shovels of dirt were flung Wednesday at 2400 S. Wolcott St., site of the new Chicago International Produce Market. Although work is just beginning on the $58.4-million, 436,224-sf fruit and vegetable market that is relocating from the historic but obsolete South Water Market, talk of expansion already has begun.

Chicago Alderman Daniel Solis says he has contacted the two state representatives whose districts cover his 25th Ward to discuss obtaining additional funding to nearly triple the 26-acre site, widening it to front Ashland Avenue on the east and Damen Avenue on the west. Tim Fleming, executive vice president of Strube Celery and Vegetable Co., adds Produce Market Relocation LLC already is talking about Phase II. Produce Market Relocation is made up of the 19 businesses, including Fleming’s, relocating to the new market.

Meat and fish markets could be added to the facility, being developed by Oak Brook, IL-based CenterPoint Properties Trust and constructed by Itasca, IL-based FCL Builders. “This can become a state-of-the-art food market in the United States if our dream comes true,” Solis says.

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