Article: $120 million convention center, hotel planned near Yorktown.(News)

Byline: Kathryn Grondin Daily Herald Staff Writer

A deal has been inked to bring a long-awaited hotel and convention center to Lombard.

Yorktown Shopping Center and Harp Mid-America, a development firm, have reached a deal on 6.7 acres near the mall, officials announced Monday.

The developer plans a 20-story facility with a 500-room, four- star hotel and a convention center with 50,000 square feet of meeting space.

"It will be a home run," said Bob Long of Long/Pehrson Associates, the mall's management company. "For the shopping center, it's a huge plus."

In the works for more than three years, the center would be owned by the village through a public ...

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