Tinley Park to purchase Mental Health Center from state
Chicago Tribune (IL)Oct 24, 2014
Mayor
The property, near
Village officials have had their eye on the property for many years, dating back to Gov.
In the 2000s, the village hired a lobbyist to track any potential sales of the property during Gov.
"Probably the biggest fear I had during that administration was that I would pick up the newspaper and find that he sold it to somebody," Zabrocki said.
The property comes with significant challenges, officials have said, not least of which are estimated environmental cleanup costs that the state estimates at
The village thinks it could be double that but expects those dollars will come through development, Zabrocki said.
Another problem is that the property is in
"That's a difficulty," Zabrocki said, along with the sales tax differential.
Many of the
The village has no concrete plans for what will go up on the property, Zabrocki said, "not even wet sand plans."
But the village is buying it to make sure that it has a strong say with the development there going forward.
"We want to make sure that we have control over what goes on that property," Zabrocki said. "While we have some control with zoning, we have 100 percent control with ownership."
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