“We’ve now have had some conversations with some larger cargo providers,” says Brent Case, Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce vice president for international business services. “It’s not just an idea anymore, there is something concrete there to rally around.”
The 48,000-square foot warehouse was built to create warehouse space to lease to private businesses, encouraging use of the Lansing airport as a logistics hub. The facility is a freight consolidation center, a general purpose foreign trade zone, and an import/export incubator.
“It’ll be individual companies that will be using the space,” says Case. “They’ll bring or create jobs there. Our hope is that we get the building filled up and prove that there is demand for it, and private developers will build the next one.”
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