Apartment complex proposed for site of former Cary senior center

The village of Cary is doing work on a growth agreement with Accurate North Properties to convert the village-owned web-site of the former Kraus Senior Center into a multi-creating condominium intricate.

The long term of the building, crafted in 1888 as a a single-story college and vacated at the conclude of previous yr, was talked about by village board customers Tuesday at a committee-of-the-entire meeting.

While village trustees and Mayor Mark Kownick responded enthusiastically to Legitimate North’s preliminary idea plan — Kownick referred to as it “an unbelievable option” — numerous trustees indicated they’d desire to see much less density and a lot more open place on the parcel.

“We will not want to see it also overbearing or crowded,” Trustee Kim Covelli claimed Tuesday. “This is about maintaining the character of the neighborhood.”

Accurate North Properties President George Ieremciuc promised a “very simple structure” for the rental units, with a great deal of normal light and significant windows, and claimed any new structures would match closely in shade and design and style to the present constructing.

Ieremciuc claimed that in his working experience, tenants prefer more compact condominium buildings, but he could consolidate the amount of structures in even more iterations of the internet site approach.

The improvement also could be completed in phases, beginning with renovations to the existing building to produce flats, Ieremciuc stated. That would enable mitigate any difficulties with provide shortages.

Legitimate North Houses was the developer driving the conversion of Immanuel Lutheran Church and Faith Lutheran Superior School in Crystal Lake into flats and also was picked out by the village of Huntley to redevelop the previous Catty Corp. home.

The subsequent action for the Cary task would be to finalize a growth settlement, such as the order and sale of the home, Neighborhood Growth Director Brian Simmons reported.

While there is no hard timeline for completing the arrangement and submitting ideas prior to the village’s organizing and zoning commission, Simmons mentioned he hopes the arrangement will be finalized right before the conclusion of the yr, and perhaps as soon as this summer time.

“We’re excited about this venture,” Simmons reported. “We feel it is a superior reinvestment and repurposing of that creating, and we’re happy it will go on to be a piece of the community shifting forward.”