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Union Pacific Railroad Buys Vacant Brach's Candy Plant Site In Austin
This 29-acre site at 401 North Cicero used to be home to the Brach's candy plant. It is now vacant.
The West Side property once home to the largest candy plant in the U.S. has a new owner. Union Pacific Railroad bought the 29-acre Brach's candy plant site in Austin from ML Realty Partners for $12.2M, Crain's Chicago Business reports.
The site has been vacant since Brach's shuttered the plant in 2004. After unsuccessful negotiations on how to repurpose the plant, the buildings were destroyed in two phases. In 2007, director Christopher Nolan used part of the site as Gotham Hospital in "The Dark Knight" movie. The remaining structures were razed in 2014.
