Lake Barrington to get small used-car dealership

Lake Barrington officials have approved a small used-car dealership's use of an industrial park warehouse space to store the vehicles it intends to sell on eBay.

TC Global Ltd. will occupy unit 3D of 22258 Hillview Drive.

The small operation intends each month to sell about two or three late-model cars, which its owner will buy at auction, and hardly replaces the Saturn dealership that recently closed, Village Administrator Christopher Martin said.

"This is more of an entrepreneurial thing," he added.

The new business required a special-use permit simply to insure appropriate measures were taken to insure drainage and groundwater protection were sufficient for the possibility of leaking vehicles in the building, Martin said.

Purchased vehicles will either be shipped to or picked up by their buyers, but there will be no display of vehicles on the site for shoppers to browse.