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GREDA President: Don't Close or Sell Logistics Park
The head of the Galesburg Regional Economic Development Association says a large piece of land that some believe should be gotten rid of has too much time and money invested in it to just, to borrow a term, cut and run.

GREDA President Greg Mangieri told the second City of Galesburg Community Visioning Session Thursday night, as heard live on WGIL, that he knows he wasn't around six years ago when the 350-acres of land inbetween Galesburg and Knoxville was purchased, but has sat unused since then aside from it being rented farmland.

But Mangieri says he can't see doing what some mayoral candidates want to see done with it. "To consider selling the Logistics Park, and reconsidering purchasing a property somewhere else, or who knows what the price might be -- $30,000, $40,000, $50,000 an acre -- is, in my estimation, not a good idea," Mangieri said.

Mangieri says yes, the Logistics Park is "shovel-ready", and that GREDA is receiving plenty of inquiries from state and government sources, among others, about available properties in town.

He says the park is often used for prospective employers as, in his words, a "hook" -- in case a client isn't interested in the park, Mangieri says, they can then be directed to the vacant parts of the Maytag and Butler Manufacturing plants among others.


(A crowd at Carl Sandburg College's Crist Student Center watches the panel discussion at Thursday night's Community Visioning Session. WGIL News Story and Photo by Will Stevenson.)
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