I’m surprised that they still haven’t reached reached an agreement on what to do with the Grant School site. It would be more reassuring if in the future such decisions are made before anything is demolished. Elgin’s old buildings, institutional and commercial included, are community assets. When the building’s are gone, so […]
Smoking Popes At Metro (live reunion CD/DVD) comes out today
Adopt Garth (d0g)
Elgin - It’s happening here (new web site?)
Teeple barn picture
Downtown railroad station (Elgin & Aurora)
Downtown railroad station (watch factory)
Blog entry on concert hall feasibility study
The Tribune said something interesting:
Council members justified the additional incentives by explaining that the Chicago firm had incurred $7 million in extra costs for demolition and cleanup of a former department store and relocation of a cell phone company’s antenna.
This is intriguing, because if RSC already sank $7M into their downtown condominium project, they […]
The city agreed to give RSC another $2.5M for their Fountain Square condo project. I thought it sort of amusing that both RSC and PAR were faced with the same problem: rising construction expenses–hence reduced profit margins; but each chose a different solution. PAR chose to raise its condo prices–disgruntling buyers and reducing […]
