The Skokie Village Board gave final approval for Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center’s $100 million redevelopment plans at its Dec. 2 meeting. The redevelopment will include apartments to be rented at rates that meet affordable criteria, and Patrick Deignan, the village’s Communications and Community Engagement Director, said it is so far the only mall redevelopment in the Chicago area to include affordable units. The redevelopment will be taken on by the mall’s owner, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, in partnership with the construction group Focus, to create 425 apartments, 16,625 square feet of retail and restaurant space and open space in the first phase of construction. According to the village’s approval of the plans, the first phase permit applications process must begin no later than one year, and the second phase permit applications process must begin no later than seven years. The second phase of construction will include a seven-story mixed-used building with 200 apartments and an eight-story mixed-use building that could house either a 200-room hotel or another apartment building with 125 units. Any celebration of the new phase of the village’s economic engine was muted by critics who said the village should have done more to push Westfield to portion out more than 3.5% of the development’s 625 to 850 apartment units at affordable rates. Because Westfield submitted its redevelopment proposal to the Village Board in February before the board approved and adopted its affordable housing ordinance in May, the proposal did not need to adhere to the ordinance that would otherwise require it to rent 7% of the development’s units at rates affordable to households that earn between 60% and 80% of the area’s median income. Courtesy of JLL / HANDOUTWestfield Old Orchard Shopping Center in Skokie will be adding up to 200,000 square feet of healthcare space, and has several stores and restaurants opening or relocating.
Skokie Village Board Oks $100 Million Westfield Old Orchard Redevelopment
Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune: Business
Mon, 12/09/2024 - 4:56pm
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