Wilmette Approves to Purchase Green Bay Property for $3.675M
The sale ends a year-long dispute between the board and the previous owner.
Wilmette Village Trustees approved the purchase of the property at 611 Green Bay Road for $3.675 million. The village bought the roughly one-acre parcel of land from Mitch Miller, Wilmette Village Center LLC’s owner, who sued the village last year when they denied him a permit that would allow Miller to put in a drive-through CVS drugstore. With the village’s approval to purchase this land, the year-long dispute and suit will be dropped. “It gives the village control of a very key parcel of land that allows us to move forward with planning,” said Alan Swanson, village trustee. The village views the property as a crucial piece to revitalizing the village center and a first step in the newly adopted comprehensive plan. The village would …
