Northpoint Development

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Palos Chamber of Commerce 'Fashionable Lunch Series' with many of my fellow Chamber members. Each of these meetings features a speaker that shares information relevant to Palos Heights and the Chamber members. The topic at this meeting was the Northpoint development at the corner of Harlem and Rt. 83, the site of the long gone car dealership. The presentation was extremely well done and the plans look beautiful, if not ambitious. The site actually includes property much farther east than is apparent now. It will offer diverse professional and retail business opportunities.

One of the highlights of the plan to me is the senior living facility that is included. I questioned why we need more space of this type when we are surrounded by similar facilities in Palos Park and Lemont, and Orland Park among others. I have recently been in need of information on senior living and visited Sunrise on LaGrange, Peace Memorial on 104th Ave. and a facility in Homer Glen. All of these facilities had availability, so my question; why do we need more? I was assured that the potential facility operators have done a thorough needs analysis and they want to provide a facility that the residents of Palos Heights will want to and will be able to afford to live in while staying in the community.

Some of the other highlights include a restaurant/banquet facility and an access point for the bike/walking trail that runs along the channel. There will be retail space and professional space. Whatever the final building design, it will be much better than the boarded and broken building that was recently demolished.

This is my first ever blog entry. I am terrified that I won't have anything to say. If you know me, I realize that is hard to believe. Somehow words come out of my mouth much more easily than out of my keyboard. I have been working on this blog to compliment my new website www.palosheights.com

The website isn't finished yet, but I figured I would just jump in and maybe you will help me with the content. I hope to make it something that you will want to visit often. To get started, I am offering a Free Starbucks® Gift Card to website visitors that register in my Guest Book. Of course this is not purely out of the goodness of my heart. I would like to gather your email address so I can reduce my postal mailing costs. If I can send you my monthly newsletter by email instead of snail mail, it will be worth the cost of some coffee for my visitors.

Back to the content of my website. If you would email me or comment on this post with any ideas or suggestions for the website, I would appreciate it.

Take Care until next time.