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Southwestern Illinois, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis (www.siteselection-il.com), is rapidly becoming a major hub for consumer product distribution. For instance, some 40 percent of Dial Corp.'s and 20 percent of Hershey's national consumer product distribution now originates from southwestern Illinois. Dial maintains nearly 1 million sq. ft. (92,900 sq. m.) of state-of-the-art distribution space in Gateway Commerce Center, near Edwardsville.
Earlier this year, construction was completed on a $12 million, 350,410-sq.-ft. (32,554-sq.-m.) expansion to an existing Lanter Co. storage warehouse in Northgate Industrial Park in Granite City. Lanter also is finishing a $3.2 million, 58,000-sq.-ft. (5,388-sq.-m.) service center real estate development in Collinsville, near I-255, which is a combination of office and warehouse space available for multiple tenants.
Triple Crown Services also has chosen to relocate its intermodal transfer facility from St. Louis to Gateway Commerce Center. The $7 million facility, which is being undertaken by Norfolk & Southern Railroad, will act as a rail-to-road and road-to-rail transferring facility for Triple Crown trailers. The operation allows Triple Crown Services' RoadRailer trailer units to move products by rail and highway without leaving the trailer, which helps take traffic off the highways, reduces airborne pollutants and lessens the demand on the region's highway infrastructure.
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Madison, Ill.-based Lanter Co., a provider of contract and public warehousing, chose to anchor its business in southwestern Illinois because of its prime location and easy accessibility to numerous interstate highways. "Southwestern Illinois has proven to be an excellent and convenient place to do business," says Al Winkeler, the firm's chief financial officer. "As a total logistics company, we strategically view southwestern Illinois as a premier distribution location for companies whose products are distributed on a regional or national basis."