GROUNDBREAKING OCCURS FOR NEW BIG KAISER FACILITY

HOFFMAN ESTATES, ILL. — McHenry, Ill.-based Dixon Construction Group has broken ground for the construction of a new 32,916-square-foot facility for Big Kaiser Precision Tool in Hoffman Estates. The new building will be located on a 2.95-acre site at 2600 Huntington Blvd. within the 70-acre Huntington Corporate Center. It will feature approximately 14,000 square feet of administrative offices, approximately 10,000 square feet of warehouse space, an auditorium-style training facility and a 5,000-square-foot showroom. Big Kaiser plans to relocate to the new space from its current location in Elk Grove Village, Ill., by the fourth quarter of this year. Theresa Gleason of Chicago-based Paine/Wetzel • ONCOR International and Mike Gazzola of Dixon Cos., the parent company of Dixon Construction, represented Big Kaiser in the land purchase for the new facility. The seller and developer of Huntington Corporate Center, McShane Development Co., negotiated the deal in-house.