they become instrumental in setting up meetings with the appropriate city representatives. The city staff is also working on all fronts to improve local businesses’ opportunities for growth. Transportation via mass transit to the Golf Road area of Rolling Meadows is currently being enhanced by a joint project between the City, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA) in order to make the area more appealing to employers who need to attract workers. “Sidewalks are being added, as are crosswalks and pedestrian-friendly signaling along Golf Road so that employees in this beautiful corporate corridor can more easily and safely cross the road for access to the forest preserve and the bus stops,” Dehner said. Work on redevelopment of commercial properties within the city also continues. The new owners of part of the large shopping center at the corner of Algonquin and Golf roads are aggressively seeking ways in which to fill the vacant Sam’s Club by sometime in 2016. Bull Dog Ale House is also slated to move into the long-shuttered Chili’s restaurant.
In the downtown area along Kirchoff Road, efforts also continue, Krumstok said. A frozen dessert and coffee establishment called COMET is under construction at 3001 Kirchoff Rd. It will be modeled on similar stores in California. “Clark Street Development has also been working hard to redevelop the Meadows Marketplace shopping center in the downtown with strictly commercial tenants, to no avail. Now they are throwing out the net a bit wider for other possible users and types of product. The City would like to see some commercial development on this site, but we may consider some type of mixed use instead of waiting any longer for all commercial that may never materialize. We hope to see some movement there in 2016,” Dehner said. For more information about relocating or establishing a business in Rolling Meadows, visit www.cityrm.org; call Barry Krumstok or Valerie Dehner at (847) 394-8500; or contact Linda Liles Ballantine, Executive Director of the Rolling Meadows Chamber of Commerce at (847) 398-3730 or via email at office@rmchamber.org.
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