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Batory Foods Expanding In Illinois

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Needing an additional location to launch a new line of business providing third party logistics services, Batory Foods asked Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) to assist with site selection to locate a new warehouse and distribution facility. Relocating or Expanding Your Business In Illinois.

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Commercial Construction Strategies: Flagship Stores to Footprint Expansion

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Flagship stores typically include a high-profile construction site – often a busy urban area with its own construction planning challenges. And, of course, the desire to use union vs non-union labor can dramatically influence costs and timelines. Working with equipment suppliers ahead of time is key.

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Business Report: Illinois Leaders Form Non-Profit to Spur Job Creation

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Bruce Rauner recently announced that leaders at the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity and business stakeholders will collaborate in organizing a newly formed private, non-profit organization focusing exclusively on increasing Illinois’ competitiveness for job creation and investment.

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Illinois: Unveiling the Future of Digital Design and Manufacturing

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Illinois’ Tenth U.S. View reports on available business sites by category here. One example of this activity is Richelieu Foods, which recently announced that it will locate a food processing facility in Wheeling after a multi-state site search. Wheeling prides itself on having approximately 13.5

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The Wave Will Spread

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As you might imagine, this is incredibly important in the site selection process, to which I advise companies. In the drive to remain competitive and to free themselves from the encumbrances of labor unions, US manufacturers have been shifting resources to right to work states, where they believe the machine can run better.

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Susan Bowman sets the example

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She’d graduated with an accounting degree at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, worked at a Big 8 public accounting firm, passed the CPA exam and learned the ins and outs of construction accounting at Pepper Construction in Chicago. Louis Union Station and even a $21 million job for NASA. We would hear about job sites.

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Dennis Calvert, the right architect for Design-Build

The Korte Company

Dennis grew up in Marissa, Illinois, a small town of farmers and coal miners. Dennis decided to pursue architecture as his career, making the grades to enter the architecture school at the University of Illinois. He did return every summer to work on a permit as a union carpenter with his father. Elmo, Illinois. .

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