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Mayor McLeod highlights multibillion-dollar data center investments and housing growth in State of the Village address
Summary
Mayor Bill McLeod told residents the former Sears headquarters site is being redeveloped by Compass Data Centers in a multibillion-dollar project and noted Microsoft's continued data-center work, new housing approvals, completion of Fire Station 21 and steps to implement the village's multimodal transportation and Hello Hoffman planning efforts.
Mayor Bill McLeod delivered the 2026 State of the Village address, saying 2025 marked "a transformational year" for Hoffman Estates as demolition of the former Sears headquarters finished and Compass Data Centers began construction on a new data-center campus, a project the mayor described as an investment of more than $10,000,000,000.
"Compass Data Centers is giving new purpose to the West side of our community by investing over $10,000,000,000 to transform a legacy site into a modern data center campus," McLeod said, adding that the redevelopment will help diversify the…
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