Amazon Facility Pitched For Oak Creek Is Larger Than Kenosha

OAK CREEK, WI — On Monday, Patch reported that the City of Oak Creek is looking to spend up to $30 million on a new business park that hopes to capitalize on the $10 billion Foxconn electronics plant that is currently under construction in Racine County.

On Tusesday, more details about the business park emerged, as online retail giant Amazon is rumored to want to build a a 2.5 million-sq. ft. warehouse and distribution facility that would bring more than 1,000 jobs to Oak Creek, as reported by the Milwaukee Biz Times on July 10. The name of the new business park would be the Ryan Business Park.

According to the report, Amazon would build on approximately 80 acres and construction would hopefully be done by 2020. The Milwaukee Business Journal says the site for the potential Oak Creek Amazon Fulfillment Center is larger than the one currently in operation in Kenosha.

In a Daily Reporter article published July 9, officials said the Ryan Business Park would be built on 85 acres of land next to a Canadian National railroad line south of W. Ryan Road. Doug Seymour, Oak Creek director of community development, told the Daily Reporter that work on the business park would hopefully begin by fall and have companies moving in by 2020.

According to the article, Oak Creek’s OakView Business Park is nearly full, and Mayor Dan Bukiewicz said officials wanted to be ready with land once Foxconn’s plant opens.

On a sunlit June 28 afternoon in Mount Pleasant, President Donald Trump plunged a gold-colored shovel into farmland, signaling the beginning of the construction of a $10 billion Foxconn electronics manufacturing plant.

Under a massive American flag supported by construction equipment, he and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker were joined by Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, House Speaker Paul Ryan among others.

"America is open for business more than it has ever been open for business," Trump said. "I want to wish you good luck, and congratulations on this - the eighth wonder of the world."

Gov. Scott Walker, speaking at the event, said that the project would add $51 billion to Wisconsin's gross domestic product over the next 15 years, translating to $18 returned for every $1 invested by the state.

The size and scope of the proposed project is staggering: The roughly 20-million-square-foot plant will be located just north of County Line Road and just east of I-94 in Mount Pleasant in southern Racine County, according to local officials. That expanse is bordered by Braun Road to the north and Highway H to the east.

Foxconn Technology Group is said to be the world's largest electronics manufacturing services provider, and officials say the company will invest an estimated $10 billion to build its Mount Pleasant campus. It will be the first in a series of world-class manufacturing facilities that Foxconn will be building in the U.S. to create new 8K +5G technology to meet the future needs of the latest visual display market.

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