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Article: Development slated for Northbrook site
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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Vacant land at Willow and Waukegan in Northbrook will become home
to a complex of stores, restaurants and offices designed to invoke a
small-town atmosphere under a deal announced Wednesday.
The Society of the Divine Word, a Roman Catholic order that owns
the former farmland at the northwest corner of the busy intersection,
said it will lease the property to developers for 150 years. It
signed the agreement with North Shore Village LLC, which includes
developers George Olsen and Kent Brisbin.
The deal calls for construction of 450,000 square feet of
commercial development over 48 acres. The project will complement
surrounding residential growth, some of it on other parts of the
society's ...