Fewer than four several years after builders broke floor on what had extensive been the Busse household farm, the Elk Grove Know-how Park is now absolutely leased with the sort of large-tech manufacturing they envisioned there.
Brennan Investment Group, the Rosemont-centered developer of the massive $1 billion, 85-acre tech park, just leased its remaining 61,000 sq. toes of spec warehouse room, Elk Grove Village Mayor Craig Johnson mentioned Wednesday at the ribbon-cutting for the park’s newest tenant to shift in, Dexter Magnetic Technologies.
“If we mentioned additional than a few a long time in the past that at the starting of 2022 we would be (absolutely leased), we would’ve been jumping up and down and kissing every single other,” Johnson said. “Am I very pleased? I’m a happy papa.”
Dexter, which designs and manufactures magnetic products and assemblies for the professional medical, aerospace, protection and semiconductor industries, was outgrowing its 50,000-square-foot factory on Morse Avenue, mentioned President and CEO Joe Stupfel. The business, started in 1951 as Permag Corp., commenced as a magnetic products distributor, but step by step grew to cope with a lot more complicated assemblies in additional hard markets, he stated.
Following analyzing 16 different web-sites in Prepare dinner and DuPage counties, Stupfel settled on the one just two miles absent in the tech park, getting into account expenditures above the program of a long-term lease and proximity to his 200 employees.
The firm’s new 82,000-sq.-foot property at 801 Innovation Travel requires up a minimal a lot more than half of one particular of the 4 divisible tech park buildings. It overlooks a pond dotted with massive elk statues alongside occupied Higgins Highway, where builders are arranging to establish a lodge and doable retail place as section of the closing stage of the tech park development.

























Stupfel mentioned the enterprise put a 6-month pause on its growth programs for the duration of the pandemic — initially contemplating the agency would go to a neighboring creating — but restarted leasing talks the moment company in the commercial aerospace business began to tick up final yr.
Brennan marketed 36 acres on the east facet of the former farm residence to Microsoft for $52.2 million in 2020 — wherever building proceeds on the initial of a few planned info centre buildings totaling 400,000 sq. toes. It can be the place President Joe Biden visited final October to urge COVID-19 vaccinations on the development web page of Clayco.
Johnson reported exterior framing is complete on the to start with Microsoft setting up, and programs have been submitted to village corridor for the next.
Brennan also sold its 165,000-sq.-foot creating alongside Oakton Road to T5 Info Facilities, which was between the initially organizations to open up in the park. Firms that have inked leases contain Broetje-Automation, a German aerospace production business and Cosentino Team, which tends to make surfaces for bogs and kitchens.
Dexter officers led tours of their new area Wednesday afternoon, showcasing the expansive shop flooring in which second-shifters had just begun their workday. Among the the function getting performed: working with equipment to slice and grind steel blocks, or ingots, into smaller sized magnets. 1 of the products and solutions Dexter would make is a little gold-plated magnet that is a main ingredient of a professional medical unit valve, which will help ease fluid buildup on the mind.
Dexter just added new grinders and saws inside the new building, and has an added 20,000 sq. toes of vacant space to mature should there be demand from customers from clientele.
“With this greater footprint, we have a superior capacity to streamline and increase our processes,” Stupfel said.