The owner and the operator of Dali’s Cafe, located at 5128 – 5130 Main Street, have applied for a Façade Improvement Grant for $26,000 The plan is to make improvements and repairs to the fronts of both buildings, which together house the popular breakfast/lunch eatery. The plan, details of which are located here, include: Replacing [...]
Everybody missed it? Pick a local business; any one — about 80 folks involved with them protested the approval of ATI taking 10,000 square feet of prime retail space at reduced rental rates any one of them would gladly pay. Many of those local businesses are owned by people who live here. They bank here, [...]
A contingent of downtown retailers is expected to address the village council tonight about a proposal by the ATI Physical Therapy and Fitness Center to lease space in the Acadia on the Green complex. The group is concerned that village commissioners may back down from an earlier goal calling for 90 percent of the development’s [...]
Editor’s note: Tim Canning of the Lemon Tree posted this note this morning. Hi friends- The Lemon Tree is coming! Thank you all for your comments. The project slowed down due to business terms with the lease and binding contract deals with Michael’s. I can assure you that all business issues have been sorted out. [...]
Village commissioners Tuesday night wrestled with a staff recommendation to allow a physical therapy and fitness center to lease first-floor space that has stood empty for three years at Acadia on the Green. For some, the issue was one of dollars and cents, specifically the opportunity to realize $50,000 a year in property taxes in [...]
Director of Public Works Naneil Newlon gave a report to council tonight, an update on tree concerns along Prairie Avenue. Three additional trees to those already taken out will also be lost. A fourth, the huge sycamore at the corner of Forest and Prairie on private property, will be severely trimmed back for newly located [...]
Between January 2007 and now, the village has taken down 899 trees. Let’s call it 900. This doesn’t count trees taken down on private property (the village has no way to track that), trees on park district land, or school district land. The village planted 1,127 trees in that same time frame. More trees going [...]
With my thanks to EDC President Greg Bedalov, from his quarterly presentation to council: where our sales tax revenue comes from, why we’re in a budget vise that’s sqeezing us hard, and what’s being done to ease the pain…
As in, get that brush off the parkway. It’s been three weeks since a storm powered by 70 mph winds rained branches (and even a few trees) down on Downers Grove yards and parkways. Yet, the moldering remains still dot many local streets, bearing witness to the hope that some congenial tree service engaged by [...]
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