ELMHURST, IL – A developer is proposing a new office-warehouse building on a site next to the Mariano's grocery store in north Elmhurst.
The property is at 677 N. Larch Ave. For the last four years, it has been the site of Super Ego Holding, a trucking firm that is under federal investigation.
Oakbrook Terrace-based Molto Properties plans to present its concepts for the site on Monday to the City Council's zoning committee.
It is unclear what this means for Serbia-based Super Ego, which still owns the property.
Patch left messages for comment early Friday morning with Molto and Super Ego.
Molto has history in Elmhurst. In 2022, the firm redeveloped the 26-acre Patten CAT equipment dealership into a complex that consists of technology company Hanwha Vision and a Target sorting facility for online orders.
In April, "60 Minutes" revealed that a federal agency was investigating Super Ego. The TV program's own inquiry showed that the firm had racked up safety violations and flouted federal regulations.
Super Ego defended itself by saying that it does not transport freight, but rather leases equipment to more than 1,200 licensed carrier companies.
"When a carrier's driver arrives at a Super Ego facility to pick up a truck bearing the Super Ego name or causes dangerous conditions on the road, that driver works for the carrier and not for Super Ego," the firm said.
In 2022, a group of truckers filed a class-action lawsuit against Super Ego, alleging the company fraudulently underpaid them.
That same year, Super Ego moved into its Elmhurst building, which serves as its U.S. headquarters. Comcast previously occupied it.
In Super Ego's first year in Elmhurst, police were regularly called to the business for such reported incidents as thefts, threats of violence and a man waving a machete. It has quieted since then.
In early 2025, Patch reported on Super Ego's legal dispute with neighboring Chicago Water and Fire Restoration.
Semi-trucks associated with Super Ego twice struck Chicago Water's building. Chicago Water said it wanted Super Ego to stop using its property.
In the last few years, Super Ego renovated much of its building, including adding executive offices.
In 2023, Mila Krcevinac, a Super Ego executive, walked through an area that was being renovated into a lounge for truckers. "You have to have something special," she said. (David Giuliani/Patch)
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