Real Estate
Gated Retirement Community Proposed In New Lenox
Mayor Tim Baldermann predicts that people all over Will County will want to move here.
NEW LENOX, IL - The village of New Lenox continues to attract more high-end development to this growing Will County community. On Monday night, the village board, for the first time, will review plans for a gated retirement community proposed at the current site of Teerling Nursery. The real estate project calls for construction of roughly 600 ranch-style homes on more than 200 acres along Cedar Road north of Route 6.
New Lenox Mayor Tim Baldermann said the senior housing development will include a multi-million dollar clubhouse plus walking trails to serve the hundreds of residents who move there. The project is about a mile northeast of the Silver Cross Hospital Medical Center complex, he said.
"We want to have a diverse housing stock in our community," Baldermann told New Lenox Patch on Monday. "A fifty-five-and-older community is something a lot of people have been asking about."
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The development is being called the Four Seasons. The project developer is K. Hovananian Homes.
Four Seasons is a planned unit development. In all likelihood, the village board will spend the next several months reviewing the plans and offering feedback to the real estate developer.
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Based on his knowledge of the project, however, Baldermann believes Four Seasons will be a tremendous addition to New Lenox.
The mayor of New Lenox said the homes will be maintenance free, yet offer lots of amenities for people who move there. Plus, it's near the Silver Cross Hospital medical campus, he said.
If the senior-housing project is approved during the early months of 2019, the developers want to begin construction next summer and start offering selling property during the summer of 2020, the mayor said.
The proposed location is great, Baldermann said. It's right near I-355 and just minutes away from I-80.
"I think so many empty nesters want to live close to their kids and grand kids," the mayor said. "I can see empty nesters that live anywhere in the Will County area being interested."
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