Huntley board approves new warehouse on south side of village

A new warehouse that could house up to four tenants got the go-ahead from the Huntley village board last week. The 175,600-square-foot building would be located on George Bush Court near a frontage road of Interstate 90 on the southern end of town. No users for the warehouse have been identified, village documents show.

Plans call for 20 loading docks, with a potential for that to be doubled, according to the site plan. There also will be four drive-in doors.

The truck traffic in and out of the facility would be "minimal," said Adam Reiche, vice president of developer Reiche Construction Inc.

"This is a good thing to have some smaller lease space [in Huntley]," Reiche said. "This can be broken down into 45,000-square-foot buildings."

Two zoning variances were requested for the project, allowing parking 15 feet away from the nearest street, instead of the required 25 feet, and a waiver from the village requirements for open space. The site will have 16.6% of open space, which is less than village requirement of 25%, village documents state.

The village originally heard the concept for the plan back in January, with the project going in front of the town's plan commission earlier this month.

The building will be neighbored by a 40,800-square-foot trucking facility approved by the village earlier this year and is also owned by Huntley II LLC, documents state.

"I'm fine with it," Trustee Ronda Goldman said. "It looks like all the other buildings in the area."