Business View Magazine | October 2020

268 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE OCTOBER 2020 and lighted boulevard to welcome travelers from I-94, installing underground utilities, and building new roads, which will also accommodate millions more square feet of new development. “The Loomis Business Park and Ryan Meadows is our newest 150-acre, mixed-use TID that is set in a lush natural setting in a very rural area of Franklin that makes it desirable both for country living to the east and light to heavy industrial to the west with a large conservation area separating the two,” says Berg. Anchoring the park is an expanding Franklin manufacturer who is constructing a brand new $74M facility on 30 acres, leaving almost 100 acres for new business. Commercial development is welcome along the highway frontage and the interior parcels are ideal for manufacturing. Even as the developer creates shovel-ready parcels, they continue to buy additional property to enlarge the development site. The city has already