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JOURNAL of Oak Park and River Forest
April 19, 2017 Vol. 35, No. 35 ONE DOLLAR
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South Blvd. developer misses deadline, faces fines Oak Park board could impose monthly $75,000 penalty for failure to build By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Lincoln Property Company has spent more than three years working on its proposal for an 11-story, mixed-use development at the corner of South Boulevard and Maple Avenue in Oak Park. The company is expected to miss its April deadline for breaking ground on the project, at what is now two village-owned surface parking lots, and could face fines of $75,000 a month from the village if it does not begin the project by June 29. The Oak Park Board of Trustees approved an amended redevelopment agreement on Monday, April 17, stating that the first fine comes at the end of June and the second, about two weeks later on July 15. Lincoln Property Group was handpicked by the village for the project in 2014 as part of a request for proposals that included five responses from various development companies. Joe Segobiano, director of development for Lincoln Property Company, told trustees on Monday that the company expects shovels in the ground within the next 60 days. “We’d like to do it sooner,” he said, assuring the board that Lincoln has secured financing for the project. He said a general contractor also has been chosen for the development, which will include 250 luxury apartment units, 10,000 square feet of retail space and a parking garage able to accommodate 450 vehicles. The village noted that the project also includes “five affordable units and a pedestrian walkway on what is now Maple Avenue.” The original planned development agreement was approved by the village on May 15, 2016. Despite the missed deadline and pending fines, Segobiano said Lincoln has been “extremely happy” to have been chosen for the project and said the village has been “a great team to work with.” CONTACT: tim@oakpark.com
Courtesy of Sitka Salmon Shares
THE LAST FRONTIER: Marsh Skeele (center) is an Oak Park resident and co-founder of Sitka Salmon Shares, which provides wild Alaska fish direct to consumers and at Midwest specialty stores such as Sugar Beet Food Co-Op.
Oak Parkers fish Alaska, sell local Sugar Beet Co-Op now carries fishermen’s wild salmon
By TIMOTHY INKLEBARGER Staff Reporter
Drew Terhaar has about one month left in Oak Park before he heads up to his fishing boat, the F/V Mary Carl in Alaska, where he’ll spend the summer catching about 30,000 pounds of wild salmon. As a fisherman for the indepen-
dently-owned Sitka Salmon Shares, Terhaar’s catch of King and Coho salmon won’t be sent to a national wholesaler who will then send it to a regional wholesaler and then to a distributor and a finally a local retailer. Instead, his fish will be sold throughout the Midwest at farmers markets, specialty grocery stores,
food co-ops — Sugar Beet Food CoOp, 812 Madison St., started carrying Sitka Salmon Shares fish last year — and directly to consumers through the company’s so-called “community-supported fishery.” “People here think it’s neat to find the guy who caught the fish See ALASKA FISH on page 17
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