CHICAGO—The industrial market in the Chicago region has seenvery robust demand this year, but Southeast Wisconsin may be itshottest submarket. And more companies are stepping up to takeadvantage of its growing strength. Chicago-based BridgeDevelopment Partners, LLC, for example, has just started a400-acre business park in Kenosha County at Hwy.142 and I-94, across from the new 500,000-square-footAmazon.com fulfillment center. At the same time,Bridge sold 200 of the acres to Uline, Inc., andwill oversee the parcel's development.

Uline, the distributor of packing materials headquartered innearby Pleasant Prairie, WI, plans to build a nearly threemillion-square-foot campus, with initial plans for a onemillion-square-foot warehouse facility and 50,000-square-feet ofoffice and call center space. Uline plans to take occupancy inmid-2016. The firm will consolidate three facilities in Waukeganand North Chicago into this campus and move about 475 jobs.

“As Chicago continues to expand, the Kenosha area iswell-positioned for continued growth and job creation,” says Bridgeprincipal Tony Pricco. “The city ofKenosha and state of Wisconsin are verypro-business and aggressive in pulling companies across the stateline from Illinois. We anticipate a lot of activity for theremaining sites, especially for large users that are having a hardtime finding sites further south that can accommodate largebuildings with even larger future expansion needs.”