Tuesday, January 8, 2013
With Deerfield considering zoning changes to ease the way for businesses to open in the Lake Cook Road Corridor, Patch wants to know what readers would like to see open in the former Office Depot site.
Readers have been active with their comments throughout Patch’s coverage of attempts to renovate the Deerbrook Mall but little attention has been given to the former Office Depot across the way on the east side of Waukegan Road. The southeast corner of Lake Cook and Waukegan Roads will soon be a medical office building as well as the location of the former George’s What’s Cooking but what is in store for the building which once housed Office Depot? Earlier: Village Moves to Strengthen Deerbrook Area Mayor Harriet Rosenthal has been pushing for retail use of vacant space in the Lake Cook Road corridor to generate sales tax for the Village. The Village Board of Trustees took steps at its Monday meeting to ease the way for retailers to …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
When the former Borders and George’s What’s Cooking became medical office buildings, Mayor Rosenthal set Lake Cook Road Corridor action plan in motion.
When the former Borders and George’s What’s Cooking became destined to be medical office buildings, Deerfield Mayor Harriet Rosenthal wanted to do something to preserve the retail character of the Village’s Lake Cook Corridor. The situation was compounded when two large stores at Deerbrook Mall—Best Buy and Wonder!—closed as well. Rosenthal wanted action and asked the Plan Commission to develop a remedy. Earlier: Village Moves To Strengthen Deerbrook Area The solution developed by the Plan Commission, if it ultimately becomes an ordinance, will ease the way for retailers to open in south Deerfield and will implement some requirements to mandate retail use like the Village has had downtown for more than 20 years. When Deerfield decided to …
Monday, August 27, 2012
Parent company of Chicagoland grocery chain is told to find a buyer.
Uncertainty surrounding the future of Jewel’s parent company, Supervalu, and the economy in general led the owners of Deerbrook Mall to regroup with plans to renovate the Deerfield shopping center. Gateway Fairview, the owners of the mall, had planned a major overhaul which involved moving Jewel into a new, modern store where Best Buy just closed. Other changes included relocating TJ Maxx to an outdoor location at the north end of the center. Earlier: Deerbrook Owners Pull Plug on Renovation Mall ownership had proposed a partnership with the Village enabling it to recoup a portion of its $26 million redevelopment expenses through property tax incentives and the Village Board of Trustees was working with Gateway Fairview to refine it. That …
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Trustees and Village officials making sure the total effect on Deerfield will be positive.
A complete understanding of the financial impact of the Deerbrook Mall renovation on Deerfield is the reason it could take the Village as long as three months from the initial presentation by the shopping center owners to arrive at an agreement. The original proposal made to the Board of Trustees June 18 asked for forms of sales tax assistance to help shopping center owner Gateway Fairview offset $16 million of the estimated $26 million cost of redevelopment. Earlier: Village Continues Negotiations With Deerbrook The two-pronged proposal called for recoupment of $10 million from a sales tax sharing agreement and $6 million from an additional one percent sales tax from the project’s first phase which would apply only to the shopping center …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Respondents to latest Patch poll want the developers to foot the bill for the shopping center’s renovation.
An overwhelming majority of readers who responded to the unscientific Patch poll published a week ago about the renovation of the Deerbrook Mall think the property’s owners should pay for the entire project without help from the taxpayers. Deerbrook owners Gateway Fairview have asked the Village Board of Trustees to declare the property a separate business district and impose an additional one percent sales tax on goods purchased there to help defray part of the $26 million cost of redevelopment. Earlier: Poll: Should Sales Tax Fund Deerbrook? If the Village goes along with this proposal as well as a sales tax sharing agreement, the owners will recoup approximately $16 million of the $26 million project cost if the redevelopment is …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
People are voicing their opinions so let your voice be heard.
(Update: June 22 at 10 a.m.) Due to the popularity of this poll, Patch has extended the voting deadline until midnight Sunday. Results will be published first thing Tuesday morning. Check out what your neighbors have to say in the comments. (Earlier: June 20 at 10:18 a.m.) Sales tax generated from shoppers at a proposed newly renovated Deerbrook Mall will reimburse mall owner Gateway Fairview for $16 million of the $26 million it plans to spend on the project. Since Patch reported on the Village Board meeting Monday where the idea was presented and published a story explaining how some of the cost will be borne by Deerbrook shoppers, Patch readers have been expressing strong opinions. Now Patch is taking an unofficial survey to gauge …
Developers’ plan calls for a special sales tax district to ultimately pay for nearly two-thirds of $26-million redevelopment of 40-year-old shopping center.
Nearly two-thirds of a $26 million proposal to renovate the Deerbrook Mall will ultimately be financed by customers of the shopping center if developer Gateway Fairview can convince the Village Board of Trustees to go along with its ideas. When some of the Trustees balked at certain points in the proposal, Mayor Harriet Rosenthal had the Board take a step back. Rather than approve a letter of intent at Monday’s meeting, the mall owners will return with a more detailed explanation July 2. Earlier: Deerbrook Project Hits Snag “Before we go forward I wanted more information,” Rosenthal said. “That’s why we sent them back to the drawing board so we can get more answers. When you have a project this big you want consensus.” Unanimity among the …
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Plans for renovation and sales tax sharing are part of proposal.
The owners of the Deerbrook Mall will be seeking a partnership with the Village of Deerfield at no out of pocket cost to the taxpayers at the June 18 Board of Trustees meeting as part of their $26 million redevelopment package, according to a report by Deerfield staff. Gateway Fairview, the owner of the shopping center, will ask Deerfield to establish a special business district allowing a portion of new sales taxes generated by the renovated shopping center to help defray the costs. Earlier: $26 Million Plan Coming for Deerbrook “We’re very excited Deerbrook will be renewed,” Mayor Harriet Rosenthal said last month about the plan. “We anticipate receiving a letter of intent and cooperating with the developer.” She emphasized the plan will…
Friday, May 18, 2012
A majority want the shuttered theaters to become an arts venue, but most want private financing.
An arts center is the preferred use of the shuttered theaters at the rear of the Deerbrook Mall by more than half the readers who responded to the latest unscientific Patch Poll gauging interest in such a project. Of the 137 people who answered Patch’s questions, 83 want to see some kind of art center in the space while 54 would rather see the theaters demolished as part of the existing renovation plan. Of the 83 who want the art center, 20 would be willing to pay additional taxes but the other 63 want private financing. Earlier: Should Deerbrook Theaters Become Art Center? One reader, Larry Mason, thinks examples set in places like Highland Park, Skokie and Highwood are ones Deerfield could follow. “Deerfield has a long tradition of …
Kavan Sidhu
2:09 am on Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Please no strip club. Very bad idea. more ›