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Jeremy Baker was alarmed when he heard that an industrial developer wanted to transform an office campus next to his Riverwoods, Illinois, subdivision into a warehouse and logistics center with hundreds of trucks coming and going each day. “It was going to be a freight complex,” said Baker, who lives in the Thorngate community with his family. “Like many other people, I became concerned, and ...

North suburban resident Jeremy Baker was alarmed when he heard that an industrial developer wanted to transform an office campus next to his Riverwoods subdivision into a warehouse and logistics center with hundreds of trucks coming and going each day. “It was going to be a freight complex,” said Baker, who lives in the Thorngate community with his family. “Like many other people, I became ...

Bridge Industrial has set up a meeting with Lake County officials a few weeks after pulling its plan to pursue the project with the village of Deerfield.

Bridge Industrial has withdrawn a controversial plan to replace the Deerfield campus with a warehouse and logistics facility. But the larger question about where to put such facilities, and their potential environmental impact, remains.

Bridge Industrial has pulled its plans to annex the Baxter headquarters site into Deerfield and redevelop it into an industrial business park after massive opposition from residents of Deerfield, Riverwoods and Northbrook. A Planning Commission meeting scheduled for Thursday that was expected to draw hundreds was called off.

Residents in Riverwoods and Deerfield are fired up and expected to protest Bridge Industrial's plan to develop Baxter's International headquarters property, a 101-acre space, into a massive industrial warehouse, distribution and manufacturing facility for Bridge Industrial. Residents are expected to speak against the project at the Deerfield Plan Commission's public hearing Thursday.

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