One of Chicagoland’s hottest industrial markets isn’t in Illinois

It’s been nearly a decade since Amazon planted its flag in southeast Wisconsin, spurring a wave of industrial development that has transformed the Interstate 94 corridor into one of the fastest-growing submarkets in Chicagoland.

In fact, the inventory of industrial product in southeast Wisconsin is now more than 84 million square feet across 652 buildings, surpassing that of the older and more established Lake County submarket, which comprises 80 million square feet, according to CBRE.

Abundant, large parcels of improved land made it easy for developers to launch new projects, many of them big-box warehouses ranging from 500,000 to 1 million-plus square feet, with plenty of space for trailer parking as well...

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Ken Notes: Just imagine what the corridor could have been with a high speed rail system running right the middle of it!