[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Military offers more time for Forest Park [IL] to bid on Army base"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Military offers more time for Forest Park to bid on Army base
Nov. 1 is new deadline, Hoskins working on new plan

By John Rice
Forest Park Review (IL)
August 2, 2022

After having a time-constrained and short-handed village council deadlock a week ago on his proposal that Forest Park bid on a six-acre Roosevelt Road site housing the Armed Forces Reserve Center, Mayor Rory Hoskins told the Review Monday that the deadline for proposals has now been extended to Nov. 1.

He said the extra time will allow the village to do an environmental assessment of the site and its main building while also developing a more detailed plan for its potential use by the village.

Hoskins said funds from the Hannah/Roosevelt TIF could be used to conduct soil borings at the site. This would address possible contamination from an underground storage tank. The current building will also require removal of asbestos and lead paint abatement. Hoskins said if the village goes through with submitting a proposal, it will be non-binding.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.forestparkreview.com/2022/08/02/military-offers-more-time-for-forest-park-to-bid-on-army-base/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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