The village board approved $47,328 – half of what Guglielmi will need for such improvements as landscaping, roof repair, security cameras, facade renovation and heating, air conditioning and electricity. <\/p>\n
Trustees also gave preliminary approval for a sidewalk, exterior painting, walk-in coolers and an ice machine at the businesses. Guglielmi can come back for final approval when he has bids on those items. <\/p>\n
The total amount approved for the village’s portion of the project was $70,500. <\/p>\n
Guglielmi seemed relieved that the project was finally moving forward. <\/p>\n
“It’ll be clean, neat and perky when we finish with the project,” he told the board. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n Homewood trustees on Tuesday night approved matching funds to pay for part of a major overhaul of a former gas station at a key intersection in the village. Using funding from a special taxing district, property owner Pete Guglielmi plans to renovate the run-down station that has been vacant for more than two years at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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