Geneva approves annexation, clearing way for new corporate campus
The Geneva City Council approved the annexation and several development agreements Monday for nearly 55 acres at the southeast corner of Kirk Road and Division Street that will become home to a new corporate campus.
Pheasant Tail LLC, created by Glenn and Jane Bullock, plan to develop the site as for A.J. Antunes & Co., a family-owned business established in 1955, records show.
“We are beyond excited to welcome Antunes to Geneva and thank the Bullock family and their team for advancing a development that elevates Geneva’s reputation as a place to achieve corporate success and community pride,” Mayor Kevin Burns said.
The city rightfully embraced the Bullock Campus with a unanimous vote, Burns said.
“The Bullock family and their team engaged the community with a vision that enhances our Kirk Road business park and enhances Geneva’s reputation as a place for corporate success,” Burns said.
Glenn Bullock told the council that Bullock Holdings is a family entity, now in its third generation with the fourth soon to come — and that he married into the Antunes family.
“Antunes is the manufacturing business that’s been in our family since 1955,” Bullock said. “We’re really a company that really talks about our people and the community we’re in.”
The company, which makes equipment for quick service restaurants like McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Chick-fil-A, has been in Carol Stream for 24 years. Before that it was in Addison for 40 years, Bullock said.
Bullock said it has 400 employees at its current location, but expects to expand and have 1,000 at its new campus in Geneva.
As a global company, it sells to 150 countries and has factories in China and India and sales offices in Madrid and Kenya.
“We’re growing pretty quickly,” Bullock said.
The proposal includes a 373,924-square-foot light manufacturing facility; a 15,000-square-foot school; an 18,975-square-foot auditorium; a 12,000-square-foot retreat center; 29,894 square feet of retail space; and 20,000 square feet reserved for a compatible future use, along with 1,173 parking spaces, according to city documents.
Truck traffic would be limited to about 15 trucks in the morning bringing in components and the same number in the afternoon, shipping out containers, Bullock said.
In all, the council approved the annexation agreement, the annexation of two parcels, a zoning map amendment to light industrial from rural residential, a preliminary plat of planned unit development for the campus and preliminary and final plat of subdivision and approval of a final plat and site plan.