Jones Lang LaSalle hired as exclusive marketing agent for 1,500-acre RidgePort Logistics Center near Chicago
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Jones Lang LaSalle’s Keith Stauber, SIOR, John Carver, Dominic Carbonari and Steve Ostrowski will oversee the marketing of the property on Ridge’s behalf.
Jones Lang LaSalle announced today that the company has been hired as the exclusive marketing agent for the RidgePort Logistics Center, a strategically located 1,500-acre rail-served industrial park near Joliet, Ill., just three miles from the largest inland container port in the United States.
This fully entitled, shovel-ready park is master-planned to include more than 20 million square feet of industrial space in buildings ranging in size from 200,000 to 2.5 million square feet. It is being developed by Chicago-based Ridge Property Trust. Jones Lang LaSalle’s Keith Stauber, SIOR, John Carver, Dominic Carbonari and Steve Ostrowski will oversee the marketing of the property on Ridge’s behalf.
“This development responds to increased customer demand for integrated rail and logistics solutions, all within three miles of the nation’s largest inland container port,” said Carver, head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Ports, Airports and Global Infrastructure practice. “It will serve as a strategic Midwest warehousing and distribution hub for years to come.”
RidgePort Logistics Center is located along Interstate-55 at Lorenzo Road in Wilmington, Ill., about 9 miles south of the I-55/ I-80 interchange and around 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago. In addition to being rail-served by the BNSF mainline, the park is also strategically positioned near the BNSF Logistics Park-Chicago in Elwood, Ill., and the Union Pacific-Joliet Intermodal Terminal in Joliet. Together, these two intermodals constitute the largest inland container ports in the United States, positioning RidgePort Logistics Center clients to take advantage of local, national and international trade routes originating in the Far East via the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
“Our new partnership with Jones Lang LaSalle will accelerate the development of RidgePort,” said James Martell, CEO of Ridge Property Trust. “We know we have the perfect location, and look forward to serving the needs of global customers in this vital transportation area.”
Keith Stauber, Regional Managing Director of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Industrial Services group in the Midwest said that the park is one of the premiere facilities of its kind in the country.
“With I-55 and the UP and BNSF intermodals all at an arm’s reach, the ease of access that this park provides is truly second to none,” he said. “At the same time, however, the park is just far enough removed from the traffic and congestion of other facilities to provide exceptionally efficient operations.”
Source: Jones Lang LaSalle
