The Village of Orland Park has officially chose a developer to finalize the downtown district the town has been trying to create over the past decade.
Currently on site is the Ninety7Fifty apartment building, public parking garage, 143rd street Metra station, and a University of Chicago outpatient facility.
Orland Park requested bids from developers in early 2018 to develop the rest of the triangle.
6 bids were received, and the developers of the top two schemes were asked to return during the summer with a more developed plan, so a final decision could be made.
Those two developers were Orland based Edwards Realty, and Chicago based Structured Development.
The village announced their developer of choice to be Structured Development in late 2018, and in a town meeting the developers announced that Wight & Company would be the architects behind the project.
A final plan is yet to be released by the architects.
The other developer, Edwards Realty, hired The LJC (The Lamar Johnson Collective) to design their proposal to the village, which is now uploaded to the architects website.
Its a solid looking proposal, and would really outshine most of what already exists in the village.
I'm hoping whatever Wight & Company comes up with is of the same quality.
*I'm sorry for the size of the images, just use ctrl - to zoom out hahah*
All credit of the renderings goes to The LJC in conjunction with Edwards Realty
https://www.theljc.com/our-work
Overview looking north east-ish (toward Chicago)
Lagrange and 142nd street, looking west
View looking north east from the Metra station
Office(?) addition to the existing parking garage
143rd and Main street, looking north
Jefferson Ave looking north
Ravinia Ave just north of the parking structure, looking north east
Jefferson Ave looking south
Can't wait to see the real proposal when it comes out.