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Thursday, May 13,
The HimtieY Famiside
1999 A Press Publications newspaper a/serving the Huntley community Voh
lity
Volume 39, Issue 5
Residents and business people join forces to help with Clean Sweep Huntley on April 24. Shown are Steve Butler (from left) and Charles Braun, of Moming Star Ministries/World Outreach Church-Huntley; Bob Luckey, Roxie Kaminski, Nickey Farr, Cindy Luckey, Tom Quinn, Monique Mahon and Cary Cook, of Amcore Bank; and John Garven, of Benico Ltd. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in cleaning up the village, with more than 300 bags of trash collected to help make the event a big success.
Intersection improvements are on tap for this summer
Steve Brosinski
Press Publications Village officials are confident the Illinois Department of Transportation will move ahead with plans to modify the bottle¬ neck at Main Street and Route 47.
Village Administrator Carl Tomaso said in a memo that IDOT should be holding public meetings on the busy intersec¬ tion.
"IDOT has assured me that the project is proceeding on schedule. Staff is planning in conjunction with IDOT to schedule information meetings prior   to   the   construction,"
"It's a good deal for us. I appreciate
that they are finally doing something
to improve east-to-west traffic
on Main Street."
James Dhamer
# Village president
Tomaso said.
Major modifications of the intersection include improve¬ ments to traffic signals and adding tum lanes to northbound and southbound Route 47 and easttxjund and westbound Main Street.
An additional left tum lane will be installed along south¬ bound Route 47, north of the railroad tracks. Village Presi¬ dent James Dhamer said the curbs on Main Street will be pushed back to the sidewalk. see Improvements—page 2
Prime Group Inc. expands plans for Route 47 corridor
Steve Brosinski
Press Publications
A new bank, a white table¬ cloth restaurant and an 18-hole golf course are some of the pro¬ jects that are under construction along Route 47, or may be soon.
The Prime Group Inc. may soon unveil plans for a 135-seat restaurant on Freeman Road, across from Prime Automall. Company Vice President Bohdan Himiak said plans are on track for multimillion dollar commercial construction on Huntley's main thoroughfare.
"It's progressing well," Himi¬ ak said.
North of Sun City in Prime's commercial park, an agreement is expected to be reached on a professionally-designed golf course. The course should be open in 2001.
"Each hole will mirror anoth¬ er m^ajor U.S. course," said Vice President of Marketing' Philip Waters. "This will be a high end destination course, which will act as a buffer between Del Webb and our corporate com¬ munity." ""
Waters said individual holes on the "Reunion at Huntley" will be similar to those at Augusta National, Pebble Beach and Medinah.
At the automall, work on the Tom Peck Ford dealership is nearly complete, and Prime plans on adSing up to seven additional car dealerships. The village has agreed to sales tax rebate deals with Tom Peck Ford and three of Prime's deal¬ erships.
Big plans are in the works for
"We've had a lot
of interest, and
we're trying to
determine the best
mix of retailers."
Philip Waters
Vice president of marketing for Prime Group Inc.
the Power Center, an 83-acre retail center east of Sun City on Route 47. When finished. Waters said the center Will include between 650,000 to 750,000 square feet of retail shopping, banking and theater space. Along the "main street," shoppers will find an assortment of specialty stores ranging from fumishings stores to beauty and linen shops.
"We've had a lot of interest, and we're trying to determine the best mix of retailers," Waters said.
A major Chicago grocery chain may be interested in putting up a store in the center. Jewel Food Stores may be inter¬ ested in Iniilding a store in Huntley, though Prime officials would not confirm this.
On the comer of the Huntley Village Green, at Oak Creek Parkway and Route 47, Waters sai^ Mobil service station with a restaurant will be going up. Waters said Carvers Restaurant of Wisconsin is expected to seek approval from the Village Board either later this month or early
see Plans—page 2