4 projects get Schaumburg's go-ahead
Schaumburg officials Tuesday gave the green light to several new development projects, including a parking garage, medical office building, and renovations to both a nightclub and a park.
The two-story parking garage will add another 538 parking spaces to the 958 that already exist at the currently vacant 11-story office building at 231 N. Martingale Road, which Hoffman Estates-based Career Education Corp. will make its new headquarters in 2011.
The garage will be on the south side of the building.
Schaumburg Community Development Director Christopher Huff said the extra parking is absolutely essential to Career Education's use of the building, as it is expecting more people to be inside than previous tenants had.
The single-story medical office building trustees approved will be at 501 W. Golf Road, just east of the intersection with Higgins Road. Two doctors will share the 4,705-square-foot building, Huff said.
Also approved Tuesday was a complete interior renovation of Heat Nightclub at 616 E. Golf Road, in the Golfwood Square Shopping Center.
Though the renovation will be nearly comprehensive, the only actual addition to the building will be a 174-square-foot vestibule. While the work is being done, Heat Nightclub will be closed for much of June and July, Huff said.
A board decision on a request to extend the nightclub's hours of operation until 3 a.m. seven days a week has been deferred, though the village staff has recommended against it.
The last major project board members approved Tuesday night was the hiring of Martam Construction of Elgin for $162,174 to undertake landscape improvements at Olde Schaumburg Centre Park at the northwest corner of Schaumburg Road and Pleasant Drive.
The extensive renovation will include replacement of the park's bridge and be paid for by the area's Tax Increment Finance fund, which will otherwise expire in 2013.
Public improvements within the TIF district are eligible for such funding, paid for by the increase in the level of property taxes collected in the district since the district was created in 1990.