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2006 Annual Meeting

Reprinted from the September 11, 2003 edition of the Glenview Announcements:

“Hangar, retail signs to be altered slightly by Lynne Stiefel staff writer

The letters and signs on what remains of Hangar One’s control tower will be rearranged, the Glenview Village Board has decided. But the changes won’t alter the order in which signs are placed on the tower as specified in a year-old agreement between the village and the developer of The Glen Town Center. The agreement insures air station lettering on the tower keeps top billing in relation to the book store tenant’s sign. The controversy leading to that agreement began when Borders Books and Music asked to mount its sign higher than the air station lettering on the tower last year. OliverMcMillan, developer of The Glen Town Center, presented a plan to the trustee’s September 2 that, as the agreement calls for, put the wings insignia highest, the air station lettering next, and the sign for Book Market at Hangar One lowest. The Book Market is to occupy the space originally reserved for Borders.

Borders pulled out of its commitment last spring, and National Book Warehouse, Inc. was enticed to lease the central 15 thousand square feet of the retail, entertainment and residential complex. Paul Buss, the projects chief development officer, suggested one change, though, He asked that the “US Naval Air Station” lettering remain centered, and that the “Glenview Illinois” and “Field Elevation 653 Feet” lettering flank it on both sides.

The change made sense to the Hangar One Foundation Board, which August 14th voted unanimously to endorse it. “That should have been that way when they put it up there,” Col. Ace Realie, the foundation’s president told trustees. Originally, field elevation lettering was on the north front end of the hangar, which Realie said helped guide pilots but wasn’t an optimal location.

“The planes that used to come in here didn’t have radios, though the idea was that the tower would give them a green light to make their approach,” he explained. “The only way they knew what the elevation of the field was to look out there and see 653.”

The developer also asked to use new letters that would be “historically accurate,” a request the Hangar One Foundation also endorsed.

To the north of the tower, a separate sign to identify the Blue Angle Expresso Café which is part of the bookstore.

Installing the signs and lettering is amongst work remaining as the developer prepares The Town Center’s three-day grand opening beginning October 17. Buss said last week that 87% of the retail space has been leased, and three percent more in the signing stage. He called that “simply phenomenal in a market that has not been good to retail leasing across the country and certainly in the suburbs of Chicago.”

In all, about 50 tenants will fill the retail spaces. Of those, 11, or 70%, will be ready for business by the grand opening.