A white elephant factory and a former premier corporate campus are targets for ambitious redevelopment plans outside of Chicago one faces many obstacles to getting started while the other is well underway. The white elephant is Motorola’s former 1.5 million-square-foot cellphone plant in rural Harvard. The campus is Motorola’s old headquarters in Schaumburg, which is being demolished to make .
A white elephant factory in Harvard and a former premier corporate campus in Schaumburg, once owned by Motorola, are both targets for ambitious redevelopment plans outside of Chicago.
Updated 5/21/2021 6:50 PM
A Canadian company called Green Data Center Real Estate is attempting to purchase the sprawling former Motorola campus in Harvard and convert at least part of it into a solar-powered data warehouse.
The Harvard property had been tied up in court proceedings as its current owner, Xiao Hua Edward Gong, is under criminal investigation in Canada but the U.S. Marshals Service received permission in September to sell it. That process has been ongoing and U.S. Department of Justice officials declined in court as recently as Wednesday to name the would-be buyer.
Crain s Chicago Business, however, reported Thursday that Green Data was the potential buyer, and Harvard Mayor Michael Kelly and City Administrator Dave Nelson confirmed that to the Northwest Herald Friday.
Sale of former Harvard Motorola campus will take additional 2 months, officials say The vacant Motorola campus in Harvard could be sold by July, officials say. Courtesy Shaw Media
Updated 5/20/2021 8:37 AM
The sale of Harvard s 1.5-million-square-foot former Motorola campus has again been met with delays as U.S. Department of Justice officials now expect a July closing date.
Justice Department representative Mary Butler announced during a McHenry County hearing last month that a new buyer likely was to close on the property at 2001 N. Division St. in mid-May. The potential May closure was a monthlong delay from a previously expected April deadline. Now, Butler said she is hopeful the U.S. Marshals Service will have successfully sold the property by the next McHenry County court date on July 27, she said.
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