Kenosha County is attracting yet another major industrial development. Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust (REIT), plans to build a 692,000-square-foot distribution center on a vacant 100-acre site southeast of 52nd Street and 88th Avenue for Norfolk, Neb.-based Affiliated Foods Midwest.
Affiliated Foods Midwest is a cooperative owned entirely by independent grocers located in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin and Oklahoma.
About 250 full- and part-time employees will work in the building. In the future, the building may be expanded to 1.5 million square feet of total space with 500 employees, said Kenosha development coordinator Brian Wilke. The site is just north of where First Industrial is building a 600,000-square-foot distribution center for Vernon Hills, Ill.-based Rust-Oleum Corp.
