Oak Forest to buy site to aid Gateway redevelopment

Oak Forest aldermen have approved the city buying a two-acre site that includes a long-vacant retail building to help with the Gateway redevelopment project around the Metra station.

The city will buy the property and the former Ace Hardware store for $470,000, but Mack Companies, the project developer, will contribute $85,000 toward the purchase, according to city officials.

The property is within the area the city has planned for transit-oriented redevelopment, including retail use along Cicero Avenue and multi-family housing targeting Metra commuters…Please click here to read Gregory Tejeda’s story in the Tribune/Daily Southtown.