Outpatient Center, Duplexes Approved For Tinley Park Development

TINLEY PARK, IL — Village officials approved a duplex development and an ambulatory care center during Tuesday's board meeting. Both properties would build on acres of land which currently sit empty.

Crana Homes Inc. were given the green light to develop the set of 49 duplexes as an addition to their existing Brookside Glen subdivision. Officials said the plan would result in 98 units at the 191st Street and 80th Avenue property, to be called Brookside Glen Villas.

Before the construction company approached the village to bid on the property, officials said the 31-acre span was designated for commercial buildings such as shopping malls, hotels and indoor recreation centers, but no businesses seemed interested in the site.

Officials said they assume the development will attract older residents as the homes are zoned as ranch style units. Close by, The Magnuson is also under construction to add four 36-unit apartment buildings to the Tinley Park skyline. The incoming high-end apartment buildings and nearby town houses swayed the village's planning committee to approve Crana Home's residential development.

Loyola Medicine also was given the go-ahead to start development on their outpatient care center, which will sit on the southeast corner of La Grange Road and 179th Street, the hospital told Patch.

Loyola plans on building the 72,000-square-foot facility near Moraine Valley Community College, even offering to fund traffic lights to separate the two campuses.

According to plans submitted before the village board, the facility is expected to open in 2023 with orthopedic surgery, oncology, cardiology, pulmonary medicine and urology specialists and equipment.

Loyola's current outpatient center, Loyola Medicine Palos South Campus, is expected to transfer ownership in April, leaving the Tinley Park site as one of the hospital system's largest suburban facilities.

The proposed site will not have any rooms designated for overnight patients, a representative told Patch, but will have an urgent care center open to residents. The building is expected to add about 130 jobs to the community.

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board still needs to sign off on the project, which is expected to take place at a board meeting on Dec. 14.