For some reason I thought I began this blog in March last year but I just realized that my first post was February 16, 2007! WOOPS!! How quickly time flies -
While the last year wasn't necessarily filled with great progress in Volo, I think next year at this time will be a completely different story. 2008 marks Volo's 15th anniversary as an incorporated Village. The other day I posted the first in a series of articles from the Daily Herald archives and later this spring, I will post a whole series of articles regarding the trials and tribulations eventually leading to the incorporation of Volo. You should see an early version of the zoning map! What a mess!! Also, did you know that there was almost a 750,000 square foot enclosed shopping mall built at the corner of 120 and 12??? My Dad worked for the company that was going to originally develop the land that now looks to become The Shops of Lakemoor so I'm hoping to have more information to share about what eventually caused that project to die out.
This year will also mark the groundbreaking for Volo Village Marketplace as well as the hopeful intersection improvements at Molidor/12, Fish Lake/120 and Fish Lake/60. Starbucks is nearing completion and looks to be ready to open sometime in late March/early April. As for the Volo Village Corner Market, I have a feeling the 2008 that covered the 2007 on the sign is about to be covered with a 2009! :-)
I managed to make 72 posts over the course of the year. That's about 1 post every 5 days on average. Hopefully this year I'll have a lot more to say! :-)
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Are the Shops at Lakmoor no longer in the works?? Tucker Development still has this on their website and supposedly spring 2008 is when groundbreaking happens. Is this no longer the case?
I don't generally talk about Shops at Lakemoor only because it's not a Volo project. It will obviously impact we Volozens as I'm sure we'll shop there as well, but I'm more interested on how Volo Village Marketplace is going to work out.
I'd also refer you back to an article that was published in Crain's and that I posted here back in September titled "Big retail targets tiny towns." In that article, Mayor Russell did remark that the current economic environment might not support both projects.
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