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Study Recommends Change for Logistics Park Galesburg
If Logistics Park Galesburg is going to ever be filled with tenants, it's not going to be in a way that city and economic development officials had hoped.

The Galesburg City Council received a report Monday night commissioned a year ago from firm The Tioga Group. In it, the report suggests that using the Logistics Park as an intermodal facility just won't work. That's a facility that gets containers transported by semi truck, and puts them on train cars. As it turns out, consultant Frank Harder says, there just isn't any support for such a facility.

Harder, though, has other recommendations.

"The world is changing; focus on the changing economy," Harder said. "It's already happening. This is the 21st century. You gotta live in the 21st century. A lot of the traditional industries that have gone away are never coming back, sadly. But, that's just the way it is. Keep pace and capitalize on agri-business."

Harder says for the report, his firm interviewed places like John Deere and Caterpillar to see if they'd use such a facility in Galesburg. They say no. He says Burlington Northern Santa Fe didn't support the facility either.

So Mayor Sal Garza is calling for an immediate shift in focus, urging that the land inbetween Galesburg and Knoxville be marketed for other uses, and that no more public money be used to market the park as is right now.

There are more suggestions in the report you can find by CLICKING HERE (pdf document).
06 28 11 by Newsroom
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