[CPEO-BIF] Canton and Freeport, Illinois

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Mayors discuss economic development

By LARRY ESKRIDGE
Canton Daily Ledger (IL)
January 6, 2012

CANTON - When Canton Mayor Kevin Meade and Freeport Mayor George  
Gaulrapp met Thursday, they discovered they shared an important  
trait. Both are Green Bay Packer fans.

But that was only the beginning of their similarities.

Gaulrapp noted Freeport was looking to develop property in his city,  
the 465,000 square foot Rawleigh Complex, and was told by their  
consultants, Vandewalle and Associates, to visit Canton to study how  
the city handled a comparable situation with the former International  
Harvester plant. The building, which was used for making household  
goods and cure-alls, according to Gaulrapp, also had historical  
significance for Freeport.

Gaulrapp said the building, which has been empty since the mid 1980s,  
was "rock solid," with much of the cleanup work already done, and  
that Freeport was looking for ways to continue to improve the site.  
Earlier plans to develop the property had fallen through.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.cantondailyledger.com/topstories/x453390522/Mayors-discuss- 
economic-development

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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