Freeport, IL The City of Freeport received a grant provided by the Land Bank Capacity Program (LBCP) of the Illinois Housing Development Authority (IHDA), created to help empower local and regional revitalization efforts by increasing planning and land bank capacity statewide outside of the Chicago…
Teska prepared a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Wood Dale, working with Business Districts Incorporated (BDI), Gewalt Hamilton Associates, and wohltgroup. The City’s location near O’Hare Airport and major roadways place it at the center of a major Chicago area logistics, distribution, and business…
Faced with questions about potential annexation of a ½ square mile area at its south edge, the Village of Clarendon Hills engaged Teska Associates to prepare the 55th Street Subarea Plan. Key questions for the study were to understand what options existed for potential commercial…
Hoffman Estates, IL In 1989, The Sears Roebuck Company selected a 780-acre site in the Village of Hoffman Estates as the much-publicized new location for its Merchandising Group. After a determination by the State of Illinois that direct government intervention and financial assistance would be…
The Village of Winnetka has three, very different business districts. While all are located on the same road corridor (Green Bay Road), each has a separate type of business focus, traffic pattern, and role in the community. When it came time to update plans for…