(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Ground has been broken on the $25.5 million Willowbrook Wildlife Transformation Project in DuPage County.
“This is definitely exciting,” said Karen Bray, the Landscape Architect Supervisor for DuPage County’s Forest Preserve District. “We’ve been working on this for over a year now. This is probably the biggest undertaking that the district has really been part of.”
Bray said a big part of the project includes a 27,000-square-foot wildlife rehabilitation clinic.
“A lot of these animals come in due to injuries from human interaction,” Bray said. “It’s a way to kind of turn it back around so, you know, humans aren’t responsible for all of these injuries.”
Bray said the building is slated to be one of the first net-zero facilities in the county.
“We’re creating the energy that we need,” Bray said.
The entire project is expected to wrap up in 2025.
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