After more than 45 years, Suburban Niles is witnessing a redemption, with new buildings and apartments, and at least two of the new shopping, dining and entertainment areas to stimulate parts of the village.
“We have told a lot here in the village now,” said the mayor of Niles George de Albogianis on Monday. “We are in what we considered a kind of” Renaissance ” – many buildings that occur, and more building that has been done over the past two and a half decades.”
Work began in some of this building on Monday, with the demolition of the old residential building of YMCA, which is located in 6300 W. Touhy Avenue. The village said that the demolition will give way to the great redevelopment, with the iconic “Niles Tower” as anchor.
“This is one of the areas that need to raise the speed,” Albagias said. “We give people a place to gather where they can accommodate, can shop, and can eat.”
In 2021, the Christian Youth Association said it permanently closed the tendency of the tower, which includes residents and a gym, noting the increasing costs to maintain the elderly building. In 2024, the village bought a 6.6 -acre property for $ 2.1 million, with plans to convert the site into “multi -use development that includes retail, dining and entertainment options.”
On Monday, Albigyanis said the village was working with different advisory sets to determine the shape of the new boycott, although nothing was placed in the stone.
“We started talking,” he said. “They have reached some kind ideas, and there is a possibility of an internal/external theater.”
Albagias said that the last major development in Niles was the village of the village crossing, built in the late eighties and early nineties. Now, with $ 2 billion of retail sales in 2024, and the new “2040” plan in the village, economic development occupies the lead.
In addition to the new area built around the 90 -year -old famous tower, the village recently agreed to a $ 440 million plan for the redevelopment of the Golf Town Center Mall. Offers for the new area include the fully rebuilt stores, restaurants and luxury apartments – and even a new water mill.
Albigyanis said other developments in the village include new luxury residential buildings on Milwoki Street, with domestic and external swimming pools, surface terraces and halls overlooking the Forest Reserve.
“There are some elegant things that are happening here now,” Albagias said of the area's stimulating plans. “We have always had a mentality, if you control the ground, you control the fate of the village,”
