By Susan Sarkauskas | Daily Herald
West Dundee is ramping up its efforts to redevelop the site of the former Spring Hill Mall, using a computer model of what it could look like with housing and stores.
But a consultant and village officials, including Village President Chris Nelson, stressed in a presentation Monday night that the interactive model is just a starting point for developers to envision what they would want to build on the site near routes 31 and 72.
On Monday, West Dundee trustees got a glimpse of what could go on the former Spring Hill Mall property. The concept design plans serve as a starting point for a redevelopment of the site. | Courtesy of Houseal Lavigne Associates
“It’s really just to service marketing material and to signal that the village is open to development of the site that sort of meets this character and intent,” said Devin Lavigne, co-founder of Houseal Lavigne Associates, a planning and design firm the village hired to come up with the model. “This is to court developers.”
The presentation contained two concepts: “Urban village” and “Mixed-use boulevard.” Drawings of both showed tree-lined, pedestrian-friendly streets and turning the current stormwater pond in to a park amenity.
The urban village concept suggests 778 housing units in buildings up to five stories tall, with 320,000 square feet of retail space.
The mixed-use boulevard suggests 1,326 housing units could be built, and 400,000 square feet of retail space.
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