Mundelein to offer vacant land to trucking firm for $600,000

Mundelein officials are boosting the town’s coffers by advertising a piece of village-owned residence to a suburban trucking organization for $600,000.

The village board on Monday agreed to offer the roughly 3-acre parcel at 927 Tower Highway to West Wind Specific.

The Bedford Park-centered corporation intends to build a truck terminal and storage yard on the web site, which is in an industrial place south of Allanson Highway.

The house had been donated to the village by the Canadian Countrywide Railway in 2014, records show.

The village held on to the residence for financial enhancement functions, these kinds of as the opportunity relocation of a enterprise, records exhibit. But a development in no way transpired.

The village authorities has no use for the assets, Village Administrator Eric Guenther stated. So, the land was declared surplus house in 2018 and set up for sale that year.

At the time of West Wing Express’ present, village officers have been inquiring $535,000 for the house. That was the appraised price, paperwork reveal.

A past inquiring price of $750,000 experienced been requested, on-line real estate elements indicate.

The village board unanimously permitted the sale Monday.

Mayor Steve Lentz predicted the village could use the earnings from the sale on foreseeable future money enhancement jobs.

“We are extremely pleased about this,” he reported.

West Wind Specific has not however submitted building ideas for the site to the village, Guenther claimed.

It is not going to be the initial trucking company on the block. XPO Logistics operates down the street at 957 Tower Road.