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Once towering Rolling Meadows office building reduced to rubble

For nearly 45 years the 10-story office tower stood high above Interstate 90 in Rolling Meadows, a testament to the Northwest suburbs’ growing presence as a center of commerce in the 1970s. By Tuesday, it was nothing more than a large pile of rubble. Built in 1979 at 2550 Golf Road and one half of

By |2024-01-05T20:50:13+00:00January 2nd, 2024|Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|

Former Lizzadro Museum, Elmhurst, IL

Wilder Park’s open green space will grow following the approval to demolish the former Lizzadro Museum building later this summer. The Park Board approved the project at its Monday, April 10 meeting. The building is located at the southeast corner of the park and has been vacant since 2019. Removing the building will decrease the

By |2023-07-28T19:56:18+00:00July 28th, 2023|Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|

Avalon Banquets, Elk Grove Village, IL

A long-standing banquet hall at a busy intersection in Elk Grove Village is set to close at the end of the year and be torn down to make way for a warehouse. Avalon Banquets, 1905 E. Higgins Road, will be demolished and replaced with a one-story, 81,400-square-foot light industrial warehouse office building, according to plans

By |2023-05-12T17:17:10+00:00May 12th, 2023|Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|

Demolition Of Former Mount Prospect Police & Fire Headquarters

Almost a year after Mount Prospect trustees approved a planned unit development to replace the village’s former police and fire headquarters, demolition of the structure has begun. Earlier this month, T2 Capital Management, LLC,  began demolishing the existing, former police/fire building at 112 E. Northwest Hwy. and will construct a mixed-use residential building. The development,

By |2023-01-08T19:48:42+00:00January 8th, 2023|Buildings, Demolition, News|

100-year-old building in downtown Mount Prospect, IL

A nearly 100-year-old building in downtown Mount Prospect will be torn down to make room for a new commercial development. But the new structure will be built along the historic outlines of the Edward Busse Building at the corner of Northwest Highway and Emerson Street, said Nick Papanicholas Jr., president of Nicholas & Associates and

By |2023-01-08T19:43:08+00:00January 8th, 2023|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|

8-Story Office Building Near Woodfield Slated For Demolition

By Eric Peterson | on July 29,2020 Anticipated changes to the outskirts of Schaumburg's Woodfield Mall this summer include rezoning of the restaurant campus on the southeast corner of Golf and Meacham roads and the demolition of the eight-story office building just south of it. A demolition permit has been obtained for the vacant office building at

By |2020-08-13T15:06:59+00:00August 13th, 2020|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, News|

Developer Doubling Size Of Mount Prospect Headquarters

By Richard Mayer | on February 19, 2020 Photo of the progress made so far on Nicholas & Associates’ headquarters in the Kensington Business Center. In the next few months, Nicholas & Associates will move back to the company’s headquarters in Mount Prospect that’s doubling in size. According to President Nick Papanicholas, Jr., the company’s one-story 17,000 sq. ft.

By |2020-02-21T19:21:03+00:00February 21st, 2020|Architecture, Buildings, Construction, News|

Demolition permit filed for Frank Lloyd Wright’s ‘Booth Cottage’

The property would be the first Wright-designed home to be destroyed in over a decade By Jay Koziarz May 22, 2019, 2:14pm CDT Photo courtesy of Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy/Landmarks Illinois A cottage designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright is on track for a date with the wrecking ball in suburban Glencoe, Illinois.

By |2019-06-15T20:28:02+00:00June 15th, 2019|Architecture, Buildings, Demolition, News|

Des Plaines recommends tax incentive for $4.4 million industrial facility

A rendering shows plans for a 72,000-square-foot speculative industrial facility that Seefried Industrial Properties wants to building at 2100 S. Wolf Road. (Courtesy of Des Plaines) Des Plaines aldermen have recommended approval of a Cook County property tax incentive for a developer that wants to build a $4.4 million speculative industrial building on Wolf Road.

By |2019-04-05T13:02:48+00:00April 5th, 2019|Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|

Developer buys former AT&T campus in Hoffman Estates for planned ‘metroburb’

New Jersey-based Somerset Development has closed on its purchase of the former AT&T campus in Hoffman Estates, enabling its planned transformation of the 150-acre site into a self-contained community of multifamily housing, businesses and entertainment venues. Representatives of the firm were not immediately available Wednesday, but village officials confirmed the closing had been completed Tuesday

By |2019-03-28T13:46:18+00:00March 28th, 2019|Buildings, Construction, Demolition, News|
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