News From Your Neighbors
In today’s slow real estate market some sellers are using “add-ons” such as a new car to lure a buyer who might have otherwise passed on the property. Others are offering stereo systems and gym memberships to help seal the deal on a home or apartment.
Then there is John O’Donnell, who may have come up with the most rewarding incentive to buy his 2,800-square-foot ranch home at 17520 S. McCarron Road in Homer Glen.
Once his home sells, O’Donnell says he will donate $5,000 to the families of the victims of last February’s shooting at the Lane Bryant clothing store in Tinley Park. He is also offering a $5,000 “reward” to the person who leads the eventual buyer to his home.
O’Donnell has placed a large red and white sign to the north of his property that reads, “$5,000 reward to the person who brings me the buyer of this home and $5,000 donated to the Tinley Park murder victims.”
Built in 1986, the home is located on 1.5 acres of land. O’Donnell recently finished an extensive remodeling project on the home. It has five bedrooms, three baths, two brick fireplaces, a full basement and a detached garage. The home also boasts a hot tub, wet bar, cedar deck and central air conditioning.
Neither the board of trustees nor residents are happy with the Walgreen’s proposal for the corner of 84th Avenue and 171st Street.
The proposal was tabled by the board of trustees at their Tuesday, May 7 meeting based on a lack of cooperation from the Orland Park-based development firm spearheading the project, Gemini Companies.
Among many other issues, the board had concerns that building permits were taking too long, the development site was left in poor condition and sales tax that would have been generated had the Walgreen’s been built has been lost over the course of the two-year discussions.
The proposed development would replace the Walgreen’s at 171st Street and would include a 14,820-square-foot Walgreen’s with two drive-throughs and an adjacent 5,848-square-foot strip mall.
Trustee Dave Seaman said they were hoping for a more decorative front and decorative lighting, which the developer agreed to change.
The No. 1 concern has been over the building’s roof line, which runs straight across the top of the rectangular building. Seaman said that homeowners believe the design may not fit in with the neighborhood architecturally.
The developer is yet to agree to changing the roof line.
He added that the developer may have skimped on the design for the Tinley Park Walgreen’s because he said that other local Walgreen’s, including the one in Frankfort, are much more aesthetically pleasing than the proposed design.
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