High-end fitness center, retail coming to old Dominick’s site in Buffalo Grove

Buffalo Grove trustees gave their endorsement this week to the plan to transform the old Dominick’s site into a high-end fitness center with retail.

Buffalo Grove-based Shorewood Development Group plans to redo the long-dormant Chase Plaza development at 1160 W. Lake-Cook Road.

The first phase will involve the long-vacant Dominick’s site. In its place will be a 34,000-square-foot Club Studio, a high-end fitness center operated by Fitness International LLC, the parent company of LA Fitness. About 27,000 square feet will be reserved for general retail use.

The renovation will include the complete demolition and reconstruction of the building's front facade, a new roof and loading dock, a redesigned parking lot and replacement of the existing monument sign.

Shorewood’s Louis Schriber III said his firm intends to close on the Dominick’s site Jan. 29. The physical work on the site will begin in the next 45-90 days.

The approved ordinance grants permission for future drive-through restaurant uses within the shopping center.

The Dominick’s site is just the first phase of the development. Schriber said the property has four owners: Albertson’s, which owns the Dominick’s parcel; Butera, which owns the east and west sides of the center; Hamilton Partners, which owns the office buildings; and Anthony Donato, who owns the former Buffalo Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor.

Under Schriber’s plan, the western portion of those buildings will remain under the ownership of Butera.

Shorewood Development Group has worked on the Woodman's development at Milwaukee Avenue and Deerfield Parkway and the Tesla-anchored development on Dundee Road.

“We take great pride in knowing our communities,” Schriber said.

Trustee Frank Cesario noted at Monday’s meeting Chase Plaza and the former Rohrman property now occupied by Tesla had been the two most challenged properties in the village for years.

“You've decided why not just fix both of them, and one is going along very nicely, and I look forward to the other,” Cesario said.