In January 2009, the Village Council adopted a Façade Improvement Program for Downtown Downers Grove. Up to $100,000 each year is designated from TIF funds for the program. The program is a dollar for dollar matching grant program and requires that a project complies with the Downtown Design Guidelines to receive funding from the Village.
Hanging tough, hanging in. Greg Bedalov of the Downers Grove Economic Development Corporation and Linda Kunze of the Downers Grove Downtown Management Corporation will offer up their respective quarterly reports to council Tuesday.
Unmaking the road to hell. I missed this one Monday at the Plan Commission. Petition PC-12-09 is for the redevelopment of a single family home at 4929 Montgomery Avenue on the near northwest side. The plans call for an significantly larger home to replace the house currently there, and consolidates two lots into one. [...]
Downers Grove’s blogging public will remember Bill White, publisher of the late, lamented Wired Grove and constant contributor to this blog’s 2007 election debate. White, a local attorney, is currently advising neighbors of the proposed Fairview Village expansion, which would require a change in zoning from R-3 to R-5. He’s also the chairman of the [...]
Glad it’s not me who must ultimately decide whether to rezone seven parcels in the Green Acres subdivision from R-3 to R-5 in order to allow Fairview Village to expand its campus to the west side of Fairview Avenue. That would be the job of the Village Council, which last night signaled its intent to [...]
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