JOLIET, IL — This summer, Joliet Patch reported that the empty Kmart store at West Jefferson Street and Larkin Avenue was under contract by an investment group. On Thursday, Joliet officials will review plans to create indoor and outdoor mini-storage units, a 60,000-square-foot grocery store and one or two restaurants at the 10.6-acre parcel.
Joliet's most prolific real estate attorney, Michael Hansen, is representing the investment group for the Kmart site.
During Tuesday afternoon's interview with Joliet Patch, Hansen said the residents of Joliet will be pleased with the overall project. The Kmart property has been vacant the past four years.
During the past several months, homeless people have used the front of the property for shelter.
"This is really a good project for that corner," Hansen told Joliet Patch. "You are not going to have trucks. Trucks are not on the property."
Hansen said the investors plan to open at least one undisclosed restaurant that would be built on the property. If a grocery store occupies about 60,000-square-feet of existing Kmart space, Hansen said the concept of a second restaurant would not materialize. The possible second restaurant space would be needed for additional parking, he explained.
"We've got a great development plan for that area," Hansen added.
Hansen said that Phil Murphy, a Naperville resident who owns a mini-storage facility at 1906 Plainfield Road in Crest Hill, would be expanding his business to the former Kmart site.
"He knows what he's doing," Hansen said of Murphy.
City documents state, "the owner/operator of the facility is projected to be Next-Door Self Storage. According to their website information, they have 14 locations in the Chicagoland area including a Plainfield Road site in Crest Hill."
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Hansen said that Joliet residents should realize "trying to get retail is extremely difficult. You're just not going to get all retail. A grocery store, we could use one, but the market for Joliet is a combination of uses."
In the best case scenario, the Joliet City Council would approve the redevelopment project later this year and construction for the mini-storage units would start next spring, Hansen said.
On Sept. 30, the Tinley Park Patch broke the news that an empty Kmart store in Tinley Park on Harlem Avenue has been approved for a Pete's Fresh Market warehouse and distribution center and that a Pete's grocery store would also be built within the plaza.
Joliet Patch asked Hansen if Pete's Fresh Market could be filling the vacant Kmart store in Joliet. He said that Pete's could be a possibility for a grocery tenant, but Hansen emphasized that the investors do not have any contract in the works with representatives of Pete's at this time.
Joliet Zoning Board member Vincent Alessio told Joliet Patch he had a favorable first impression of the design plans submitted by Hansen for the Kmart site.
The property encompasses a giant empty parking lot and a 97,000-square-foot vacant Kmart retail store that "is generating no revenue," Alessio said.
This "would be getting rid of an eyesore and redeveloping it into a modern multi-use development. This is the type of project and development ... the city is looking for," Alessio added.
The investment group, called 1801 Jefferson Development LLC, is seeking a special use permit from Joliet for a climate-controlled storage facility as well as for outside mini-storage units to be built on the existing Kmart parking lot.
The Preliminary Planned Unit Development also needs city approval to redevelop the empty Kmart building and "create up to two additional restaurant sites for future commercial uses," city reports reflect.
The White Castle, Checkers restaurant the Circle K gas station are not part of the Kmart project because they are under different ownership, city memos indicate.
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