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Gateway Commerce Center exceeds growth forecast

The Gateway Commerce Center By LISA VAZZI SCIRANKO

  This year has been an incredibly successful one for TRiSTAR Business Communities.
  TRiSTAR and the Gateway Commerce Center were party to the largest single real estate transaction in metropolitan St. Louis for the third year in a row. The 2,300-acre business park, located in Madison County at the intersection of Interstates 255 and 270, will have 4.7 million completed square feet of industrial space by the spring, all of which has been built in the last four years.
  The year 2002 was full of significant deals from companies such as Buske Lines Inc., Unilever Home and Personal Care, Lanter and Flying J Inc. Unilever's take on Gateway
  "Gateway Commerce Center is [continue]

A giant in the field of warehousing and distribution, Gateway Commerce Center has just 300 of its 2,300 acres developed so far.

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Highway 50 stretch earning name as 'golden road'
By KERRY L. SMITH

   When O'Fallon and Shiloh business leaders are asked what's happening at the interchange of Interstate 64 East and the new Greenmount Road, the answer is easy. A lot.
   Dierbergs Markets' decision to open its first Illinois store has proven to be only the beginning, likely the
  commercial catalyst to a host of
     other retail and residential projects Interstate 
64, Illinois Highway 50 and Greenmount Road
that are already well past
    the planning stage.

Interstate 
64, Illinois Highway 50 and Greenmount Road

Dorcas and Corky Cecil, president and commercial division head, respectively, of Cecil Management Group, have a bird's-eye view of it all, looking out from their office near this interchange.
   "The new interchange at I-64 and Greenmount Road is the center [continue]

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Gateway largest regional real estate deal
By KERRY L. SMITH

   A literal giant in the realm of distribution and warehouse properties, Gateway Commerce Center attracted several more national tenants during 2002.
   That was enough to make it the largest commercial real estate deal in the entire St. Louis metropolitan area for the third year in a row. That's saying something, considering its major Midwest market competitors include Chicago, Indianapolis, Nashville and Memphis.
   Unilever HPC's Midwest distribution facility, in excess of a million square feet and being developed at the site by real estate investment trust ProLogis, will equal the size [continue]

 Developers predict 'bright future' for Metro East

. Darrell Shelton and 
Darwin Miles By KURT PRENZLER

  SHILOH -- Seven years ago, when most people looked south of the Interstate 64/Highway 50 interchange in O'Fallon, they saw a cornfield.
   But entrepreneurs visualize what most people don't see. Illinois real estate developers Darrell Shelton and Darwin Miles saw the [continue]
 

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