A major industrial play is taking shape in Slinger, where a hardware manufacturer is moving ahead with plans for a roughly 90,000-square-foot factory inside Three Leaf Partners’ Merchant Village development. The building is slated for a 130-acre master-planned site just off Interstate 41 and Highway 60, with project paperwork now showing up in public notices. Officials have not yet put a construction timeline on the record.
According to the Milwaukee Business Journal, filings describe the prospective tenant simply as a hardware manufacturer that is looking to secure about 90,000 square feet of production and warehouse space at Merchant Village. Reporter Addison Lathers noted that the formal site documents have advanced far enough to circulate with local reviewers, but the paperwork does not identify the company by name or lay out a specific start date.
About Merchant Village
Merchant Village is being promoted by Three Leaf Partners as a 130-acre, pad-ready mixed-use campus that can accommodate retail, hospitality, senior living, medical uses and light manufacturing, according to Three Leaf Partners. Project materials emphasize completed or planned infrastructure work, stormwater management features and reserved prairie space as core pieces of the overall build-out.
State support and site access
The village has secured a $165,000 Transportation Economic Assistance grant to build a new roadway, Karius Court, which state officials say will provide direct access into Merchant Village and serve incoming tenants. In a November 20, 2025 press release, the Office of Governor Tony Evers and WisDOT said the TEA award will help Allegis Corporation relocate a materials-converting operation from Libertyville, Illinois, to the site and support about 33 jobs.
Local stakes and next steps
The Merchant Village build-out is backed by a newly created tax incremental district and an upfront village commitment to infrastructure that local reporting pegged at $7.75 million, part of a strategy to make parcels shovel-ready, according to the Daily Reporter. Early site work has already produced the first build-to-suit tenant, a fireside MARKET convenience store, illustrating the phased rollout Three Leaf and its partners have outlined in development filings.
Before any new factory walls go up, the site still needs final permitting, utility connections and road improvements. Public filings and building permit records are expected to reveal the project’s next milestones. Officials have indicated that the TEA-funded road work and the village’s infrastructure commitment are key steps toward unlocking the industrial pads at Merchant Village.
