MWI Property Group Breaks Ground on 211 Acre Business Park
Pictured: Mayor of Geneva, Geneva Officials, MWI Development Team
OAK BROOK, IL – July 2025 – MWI Property Group (MWI) hosted a groundbreaking event on Thursday, July 24th with their project team and local government officials at their Gateway Business Center (GBC). This master planned business park located in Geneva, IL will feature 2.5 million SF of state of the art, Class A, industrial space situated on multiple lots spanning 211 acres once fully built out. GBC offers companies a dynamic blend of fully entitled sites along with speculative and built-to-suit spaces ranging from 30,000 SF to 1.1 million SF.
MWI is constructing a nearly one-mile extension of Kautz Road that will provide a link to IL-38 and Fabyan Parkway improving access to the entire corridor and business park. They are also preserving and dedicating a 40 acre protected conservancy area along the western portion of the park. A new Geneva electrical substation is being constructed on one of the lots at the southeast end of the park and will provide redundant power capacity with the rest of Geneva’s power grid at the lowest power rates in the submarket. Mass grading operations have commenced on the Kautz Road extension and associated park infrastructure. These improvements will be completed by the end of 2025.
“We are very excited to officially launch this Class A industrial park we have worked for years to assemble, entitle and master plan,” said Justin Fierz, Principal with MWI. “There has not been a new park developed of this size and scale in the west suburbs in decades. It truly represents a unique and customizable opportunity for businesses that simply has not been available. We look forward to attracting more world-class companies to the park and the area in the years to come. We already have strong initial prospect activity and look forward to announcing our first building soon. We appreciate all the hard work our team and the city of Geneva has performed over the years working together to bring this vision to reality,” he added.
Geneva’s Mayor Kevin Burns spoke at the groundbreaking event as well stating, “Marking more than two decades of visioning, planning, strategizing, calibrating, debating and deciding. . . while always remaining true to our community’s strategic goal of purposeful development and economic vitality – Geneva residents will benefit from the broadening tax base and our community will be elevated even higher as a premier destination to site and grow opportunities. The Class A Gateway Business Center is soon to be known throughout the Chicago region and beyond.”
MWI Construction LLC is the design-build general contractor for the business park with Pinnacle Engineering and Harris Architects providing engineering and design services. The Lee & Associates team of Michael Androwich Jr. and Matthew Androwich are marketing sites in the park for build-to-suit lease or sale on behalf of MWI Property Group. See www.GBCGeneva.com for more information.