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Old 12-20-2016, 04:28 PM
 
Location: Johns Island
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Yup. Not sure how I feel about this location, but it should get plenty of business from all the residents of the new apartments going up.
My point was that there is no intersection of Lake and Maple... Unless things have changed.
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Old 12-20-2016, 06:28 PM
 
Location: Oak Park, IL
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My point was that there is no intersection of Lake and Maple... Unless things have changed.
There will be a new roadway to the west of the new development linking North Blvd with Lake St. This road will provide access to the parking garage being built. It is roughly in line with Maple St, although according the the downtown master plan from a decade ago, it is/was supposed to be called "Station Street".
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Old 12-21-2016, 10:15 AM
 
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There will be a new roadway to the west of the new development linking North Blvd with Lake St. This road will provide access to the parking garage being built. It is roughly in line with Maple St, although according the the downtown master plan from a decade ago, it is/was supposed to be called "Station Street".
The various iterations of the "master plan" that happen in the core of any town with active development is going to see lots of shifts. The lessons of past mistakes (cough pedestrian mall cough) have pushed most towns to prefer greenlighting private development over costly public infrastructure. While that some times seems like the developers are writing the code / master plan the bigger issue is that with Illinois broken fiscal systems (cough unsustainable public employee pensions cough) there is no funding for anything else...

I have my doubts that this mini Target will really serve as many tenants as the developer hopes nor do I think it is likely to really be a plus for other shoppers in the region ( as much because of the ever increasing pressure on Target and other bricks and mortar stores to fend off online retail...) and who knows what'll happen with even more competition for the other stores in that area, but one has to at least be grateful that there are developers willing to take a chance in the face of really uncertain future.
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