For Business Owners

Setting Up Your Business Glen Ellyn Style

Glen Ellyn is a vibrant Village pulsing at the heart of affluent DuPage County in the western suburbs of Chicago.  When you open your business in Glen Ellyn, you will join a community of premiere shops and businesses.  In Glen Ellyn, you’ll find competitive lease rates that allow you to minimize your business overhead.  Surveys show that Glen Ellyn’s lease rates are often 10-15% or more below regional options. And, you’ll have your choice of three bustling commercial districts: the historic Downtown, the Roosevelt Road corridor and Stacy's Corners.

Great location, attractive demographics, competitive lease rates, residents who genuinely prefer to shop locally, and existing businesses that draw customers from throughout the region all make Glen Ellyn appealing to retailers seeking new sites.

The Glen Ellyn Economic Development Corporation (EDC) directly recruits targeted retailers.  View our list of retail niches we seek.  The Glen Ellyn EDC also serves as a resource and facilitator for existing business owners. 

Here's how the Glen Ellyn EDC assists business prospects and existing businesses in Glen Ellyn:

• Business owners seeking locations -- Find available commercial spaces and properties for lease or for sale, view demographics and the trade area profile, learn about the retail niches we seek, identify competition, get guidance on site selection, market evaluation, and the business opening process, learn about business incentives -- interior build out retail grants for new and expanding downtown retailers, and commercial façade improvement grants.
• Existing Glen Ellyn business owners -- Get quick access to useful information on operating a business in Glen Ellyn, find technical resources for business growth, find available commercial spaces for expansion, learn about business incentives -- interior build out retail grants for expanding downtown retailers and commercial façade improvement grants, receive support for business opportunities and resolution of business issues (ombudsman), get quick links to Village staff and codes, stay current with local business news.