The Starke County Economic Development Foundation is marketing several available properties in the Hamlet area. Executive Director Charlie Weaver recently told the county council one site with an available building is for sale.
He says the building is 25,000 square feet with a 25-foot center eave and 18 foot ceilings on the side walls. That property is already listed.
Weaver is also working with Sysco and Jones Lang and LaSalle Brokers to enter into a listing and marketing agreement for their land.
Sysco Corporation chose a site near Hamlet for a planned Midwest Redistribution Center in early 2006 and purchased 320 acres of land in 2007. The project stalled in 2009 due to the weak national economy.
Weaver says another site near North Judson is also ready for development. He says the Starke County Economic Development Foundation has obtained rights to sell the land, which is suitable for industrial use.
Council members asked Weaver about the sale of the Stelrema building on U.S. 35 between Knox and Hamlet. They recently granted a tax abatement to Chicagoland-based Gary Poppins to manufacture gourmet snack food. Weaver says that purchase has not yet closed, as final details are still being worked out.
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