CHICAGO- Following up on a Friday story, GlobeSt.com spoke to Jones Lang LaSalle Managing Director Trevor Ragsdale about how the firm would market Venture One Real Estate's Rockford-area business parks.
“The I-39 corridor is a corridor that exports a huge volume of agricultural and food products,” much of which go out via the nearby Union Pacific Global III Intermodal Facility, and companies in those lines would find the Rock 39 Industrial Park and Loves Park Corporate Center a good fit, he says.
Furthermore, “there's this pool of labor there that has very high skills” since the Rockford region has a great deal of intellectual capital in manufacturing, especially in aerospace. “There's an opportunity to provide all of this to companies that need to modernize their manufacturing operations or for foreign companies that want to set up a U.S. headquarters and really tap into a global market. That's the bedrock of our marketing strategy.”
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
