The proposed project will support approximately 5,310 construction job-years and more than 7,000 permanent jobs after full buildout. Average earnings per construction job-year are projected to range from about $108,700 at the intermodal facility to about $136,800 at the Logistics Park.
Construction Job Creation: The proposed project will contribute approximately $682.8 million in total worker earnings during the construction period.
Intermodal Operations Job Creation: Intermodal facility operations will support approximately 353 permanent jobs and $35 million in total annual earnings. Direct jobs at the intermodal facility are projected to earn approximately $107,900 annually.
Total Operational Impacts
The proposed project is expected to support 5,964 direct permanent jobs and generate $422.8 million in direct earnings annually, including jobs associated with both intermodal and logistics park operations.
Ongoing operations are expected to have significant supply chain and consumer impacts, creating an additional 1,087 indirect and induced jobs in Grundy County.
On average, an intermodal facility employee is expected to earn $107,900 annually, and a Logistics Park employee approximately $69,200. Operations of the intermodal facility are projected to stimulate indirect supply chain employment with average earnings of $80,600 per year.
Annual Sales/Output
The proposed project will support more than 7,000 permanent jobs and approximately $1.1 billion in annual sales.
Annual Property and Real Estate Tax Revenue
The development of intermodal terminal, and the 10 new industrial buildings as part of the eventual logistics park, is projected to generate additional annual property tax revenue for various public sector jurisdictions at full build-out.
The project, including both the intermodal terminal and the logistics park, is anticipated to generate significant annual property tax revenue for school districts, fire districts, parks and other public entities and organizations to benefit the community.
Spillover Impacts
Construction of the intermodal facility is expected to catalyze new industrial development in the surrounding area.
Environmental and Highway Traffic Benefits
Upon full buildout and assuming 50% truck conversion on domestic lanes, the terminal is expected to remove 400,000 long-haul trucks annually.
In the absence of this project, goods in containers would move by long-haul truck which generates 4x more greenhouse gas emissions per container.
This will alleviate congestion on I-80/I-55 and primary continental north-south corridors by removing long-haul trucks from the highways.
Facility and Traffic Details
CN has planned the project to minimize the traffic impact on local roads, commissioning a thorough traffic study with input from the Villages of Minooka and Channahon, and the Illinois Department of Transportation, which includes proposed improvements to local roadways.
The facility site is ideally located close to I-80 in an area that has long been planned for use to support freight traffic in the area.
The development will have three access points, with one access point on McLindon Road and two on Route 6. These access points will decrease traffic impacts to one roadway system.
The facility’s proposed design allows for the minimization of blockages of the existing McLindon Road grade crossings. Even if McLindon Road were briefly blocked, the nearby grade-separated crossings at Ridge Road is just three minutes away, so motorists and emergency vehicle will always have a quick route around the area.
