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No. 187 | A JWC Media publication
NEWS
Canal Shores Golf Course Plans Revamp
State of the North I Shore Housing Market
By bill mclean
t is a late afternoon, in a conference room at a real estate office in Winnetka. Karen Arenson, a Coldwell Banker managing broker, is in there. So is Mary Kay Burke, a Coldwell Banker broker. The third person in the room is a listener, wielding a pen and a pad of paper. The prevailing topic is the prevailing condition of the real estate market on the North Shore versus the condition of the real estate market in the United States. Arenson has read the frontpage headlines and the articles of the national reports. They made the front pages of local outlets. She uses the weather, colorfully, to make a cogent point. “What is going on nationally, what people are hearing, what they’re reading in Associated Press stories is the real estate market’s lack of inventory,” Arenson says. “There’s a barrier to entering the market because of inflated prices. But that’s like reading about the national weather and discovering it’s 72 degrees and sunny in the United States. The real estate market is locally driven, and what is going on here, in Illinois and the North Shore, is the opposite of what the national news is saying. Our inventory is up and climbing,
By Emily Spectre
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ILMETTE — Canal Shores is developing a master plan that proposes significant changes to the 18-hole course that spans both Evanston and Wilmette. The Evanston Wilmette Golf Association — a nonprofit organization that oversees the golf course — held a public meeting on April 22 to share the proposed plan. “The goal of the meeting was to get our preliminary idea in front of the community and get feedback on it,” Tom Tully, Canal Shores general manager, said. Lead architect David Zinkand provided an overview Continued on PG 14
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