Afrigather Lynwood has grown by greater than 100 acres, with a trucking facility and Muslim burial website deliberate for a number of the acreage just lately annexed, in line with Mayor Jada Curry.
The Village Board just lately authorised annexation of three parcels that had been in unincorporated Prepare dinner County, together with two websites alongside Joe Orr Street between Stony Island and Torrence avenues.
The mayor acknowledged the initiatives deliberate for the websites won’t be main mills of jobs or income for Lynwood.
“Lynwood has been this municipality with undeveloped or underdeveloped land,” Curry, elected final yr, stated in a cellphone interview Monday. “Lynwood is rising, jobs will come. If we will usher in 5 jobs, 10 jobs, it’s a win for Lynwood.”
Curry, was the primary Black feminine elected mayor of Lynwood. She’d beforehand been a trustee of the village, the place Eugene Williams had served 4 consecutive phrases.
Curry stated one of many annexations authorised by the village is for 46 acres at 1400 E. Joe Orr Street, west of Illinois 394 and Stony Island. There, Cardinal Categorical Logistics plans a trucking facility that may initially create 10 to fifteen jobs, however that quantity might develop, in line with the village.
The location is close to the interchange of Glenwood-Dyer Street and Illinois 394, which to the north connects to Interstates 80 and 94.
Simply to the south of the Cardinal property, Lynwood has annexed 31 acres at 1120 E. Joe Orr Street that the Harvey-based Heart for Islamic Teachings and Group Growth in Harvey plans to make use of for a burial website, Curry stated.
She stated the middle is earmarking 5 acres of the location for Lynwood residents, no matter their faith, who’re unable to pay for burial providers.
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A message left Tuesday with the middle looking for particulars of the plans was not instantly returned.
Lastly, Curry stated Lynwood has annexed 23 acres the place Sauk Path and U.S. 30 intersect, simply west of the Indiana state line.
Owned by the Sisters of St. Francis, the convent on the location is to the west of Franciscan Well being’s Dyer hospital.
Curry stated Lynwood is seeing some positive aspects in attracting different companies that may generate gross sales and property tax income, together with a Dunkin’ Donuts slated for the nook of Glenwood-Dyer Street and Torrence Avenue and a Greenback Basic on the nook of Glenwood-Dyer and Stony.
The mayor stated that these companies and the annexations and potential jobs that they are going to create imply that “Lynwood is rising, jobs will come.”
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