Former Amazon site in Churchill scheduled to go up for auction amid tight market for retail space

In September 2020, six months into an assumption-destroying pandemic, the council of Churchill Borough held a Zoom meeting to hear the results of a planning process to consider what could be the future for the more than 130-acre former George Westinghouse Research Park, then poised for a $300 million Amazon distribution facility.

Jim Pashek, of North Side-based planning firm Pashek+MTR, the firm hired at the time for the planning assignment, offered a forecast of what the other prospects might be instead of a massive warehousing operation.

“I have to say my intuition is there’s going to be less demand for retail,” he said.

Former Amazon site in Churchill scheduled to go up for auction amid tight market for retail space

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