After more than 45 years, the suburbs of Niles sees a redevelopment “Renaissance“With new buildings, apartments and at least two new shopping, catering and entertainment areas to revitalize animated parts of the village.
“We have a lot here in the village right now,” the mayor of Niles said on Monday, George D. Alpogianis. “We are in what we have considered a kind of” the era of the Renaissance “- many buildings in progress, more buildings that have been made in the past two and a half decades.”
The work on a part of this building began on Monday, with the demolition of the old residential building of the YMCA in the tower, located at 6300 W. Touhy avenue. The demolition, said the village, will give way to a major redevelopment, with the “leaning tower of Niles” emblematic as anchor.
“This is one of the areas that was to be informed,” said Alpogianis. “We give people a gathering place where they can spend time, they can shop, they can eat.”
In 2021, the The YMCA said that it permanently closed its installations leaning on the towerWho housed the residents and a gym, citing the increase in the cost of maintaining the aging building. In 2024, the village bought the property of 6.6 acres for $ 2.1 million, with plans to transform the site into a “development for mixed use featuring retail, catering and entertainment options”, according to a press release.
Alpogianis said on Monday that the village worked with various council teams to determine what the new district would look like, although nothing has been set.
“We are starting to speak,” he said. “They found great ideas, and there is a possibility of an interior / outdoor theater.”
Niles’ last major development was the village crossing, said Alpogianis, built in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Now, with 2 billion dollars in retail sales in 2024 and the new “2040” plan of the village, economic development occupies the stage.
In addition to the new area under construction around the famous 90 -year -old tower, the village recently approved a plan of $ 440 million to redevelop the age of decades of the suburbs Golf Mill Town Center Mall. The renderings for the new area include completely rebuilt stores, restaurants, luxury apartments – and even a new water mill.
The other developments in the village include new buildings of luxury apartments on avenue Milwaukee, said Alpogianis, with interior and outdoor pools, roof terraces and salons overlooking the forest reserve.
“There are really treated things here at the moment,” said Alpogianis, plans to revitalize the region. “We have always had the mentality, if you control the earth, you control the fate of the village,”