The proposal by Mayor Jim Dodge administration includes adding a three or four-story musculoskeletal center to the existing University of Chicago Medical Center campus, ranging from 80,000 to 120,000 square feet, according to the hospital\u2019s letter of intent provided by the village.<\/p>\n
The medical center plans to initially lease 3,000 to 9,000 square feet of ground level retail space in the building, maintaining the right to use that space once the lease expires and to construct another healthcare building on parking lot land north of the existing medical center.<\/p>\n
Dodge said bringing more people into the downtown area through an additional healthcare center will help upcoming restaurants and retail thrive during typical work hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always aspired in the village, for many years, to have better paying jobs and kind of a higher tech office space type of economy, not just strictly restaurants and retail,\u201d Dodge said. \u201cAnd so University of Chicago made the investment with us years ago in that center, and they were interested in expanding, and it just made perfect sense to us as a complementary use.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the village plan, the University of Chicago Medical Center will maintain exclusive use of the existing 547-space parking garage from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, opening up to the public on evenings and weekends.<\/p>\n
Dodge said the village will study a performing arts center as another potential anchor, with the redevelopment agreement requiring the village to decide whether to pursue the project within three years. He said he wanted to set an expiration date on the project so to \u201cnot drag this out forever and take 20 years making the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Looking east toward LaGrange Road in Orland Park in June 2025, some of the property that is part of the village’s downtown development. (Mike Nolan\/Daily Southtown)<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlike Centennial Park West, we want to build the business plan before you build this asset,\u201d Dodge, who has been critical of village spending on the 15609 Park Station Blvd. concert venue<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n The proposed downtown district is often referred to as the Main Street Triangle because of the 27-acre property\u2019s shape. Its first tenant, a Weber Grill restaurant, is\u00a0expected to open<\/a>\u00a0at the southwest corner of LaGrange and 142nd Street later this year.<\/p>\n
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A rendering for Orland Park’s downtown triangle, situated around the planned Heroes Park, northwest of 143rd Street and LaGrange Road. (Edwards Realty Company)<\/p>\n