PEORIA ( 25News Now ) - Pekin city officials are optimistic that good things will come from the community’s investment in a technology park.

Having acquired the Lutticken property, the city is under contract to sell a third of it, about 320 acres, to a technology park developer, primarily for data center projects.

The city anticipates this will bring jobs to the city not only in the data center, but with construction. and an additional $20 million in yearly revenue from property taxes.

“Data centers are happening all over the country, it’s a movement. They’re going to happen everywhere, so our thought is why not Pekin,” said Josh Wray, who leads Pekin’s economic development efforts.

The project is expected to take another two years to get underway. It will be built off Highway 98 and

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