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Article: On point in McCook
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- July 23, 2008
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Eleven years ago, CenterPoint Properties placed its faith in the outmoded industrial plants of southwest suburban McCook. The decision has been paying off ever since.
CenterPoint has broken ground for a 270,000-square-foot manufacturing and shipping center in what it calls the McCook Business Center, at First Avenue and I-55. It also signed the building's first tenant, GPA Specialty Substrate Solutions, which makes printable films and pressure-sensitive paper. GPA leased 60,000 square feet.
The building will be part of a 2 million square-foot complex CenterPoint built on 242 acres that formerly held a Reynolds Aluminum plant.
CenterPoint began working on the site after completing a ...