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BROOKINGS, S.D. — Chicago-based Bel Brands USA — the maker of Laughing Cow, Mini Baybel and Boursin Cheese — plans to build a new 170,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Brookings. The $100 million facility will employ more than 200 workers once the plant becomes fully operational in 2014. The company plans to break ground this summer on a 42-acre land parcel along 32 Avenue, near the I-29 cooridor. The facility will be used to produce Bel Brands' Mini Baybel cheese. Dan Maslauski, Brian Chernett, Ann Woessner-Collins, Kris Bjorson, Dan McGillicuddy and Rich Thompsen of Jones Lang LaSalle assisted Bel Brands in the site selection process.