Economic & Community Development

Economic Development Profile

2003 STATISTICS
Population (4/2000 Census) 14,816
Average Home Value $98,700
Average Income $54,049
Value of Building Permits:   
            1962 $6,612,035
            2003 $4,085,780
Village Building Permits 23
Municipal Revenues (FY 2002 Audit) $9,701,098
Municipal Expenditures $10,158,914

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Business

The Village of Hazel Crest is a pro-business community which works closely with developers and business owners to encourage and enhance the Village’s business environment for all of its citizens.

Economic Development Incentives. The Village has been aggressive in the application of economic development incentives including sales tax incentives, property tax rebates and TIF districts. The Village welcomes interest in potential development opportunities and has created a subcommittee of two trustees and staff which directly advises the Board on economic development issues.

New Business Development Since 1993:

  • Financial Federal Savings and Loan, Lawndale and 183rd
  • Hoekstra Automation in Palmer Lake Center, 175th and Jovanna
  • Gierzyck Corporate Headquarters in Palmer Lake Center, 175th and Jovanna
  • Walgreens, Crawford and 183rd
  • Wendy's, 183rd
  • Continental Pancake House, 183rd
  • Shop-N-Save Grocery, 183rd
  • Fitzsimmons Medical Supply, Kedzie
  • South Suburban Hospital Emergency Room Expansion
  • U.S. Postal Service Office Relocation to 175th and Kedzie
  • Revitalization of Fountainbleau Shopping Center, 183rd
  • Revitalization of Hazel Crest Shopping Center, 175th and Kedzie

Existing Large Employers. Successes are readily visible from the Village's largest employers including MI-JACK Products ( http://www.mi-jack.com/ ) and South Suburban Hospital ( http://www.advocatehealth.com ).

Founded in 1955, MI-JACK has grown from three employees to more than 300 at its corporate headquarters in Hazel Crest and to more than 1,500 employees with five regional offices, facilities in 17 U.S. cities and five international sites. MI-JACK began as a distributor of heavy equipment to railroads, ports, pre-cast concrete, and steel fabricators. Today, its construction equipment manufacturing includes forklifts; scissors lifts; serial work platforms; and hydraulic trucks, rough terrain, and industrial cranes, often noticeable during interstate construction in the Chicago area.

The Village's other largest employer is South Suburban Hospital with more than 300 physicians plus support staff. The 270-bed facilities offers 24-hour emergency services, complete in-and out-patient services, including diagnostic, rehabilitation and surgical; family-birthing; sick-child day care center; skilled nursing units; complete wellness and education centers; and Club Vitality with more than 8,000 membership by seniors.

South Suburban Hospital offers a wide range of comprehensive inpatient, outpatient, diagnostic and ambulatory medical services. South Suburban has a strong tradition of innovation in the use of state-of-the- art technology. The hospital offers such high-tech services as laser surgery, laser, angioplasty outside the heart, lithotripsy, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), SPECT nuclear imaging, echocardiography, cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, and vascular imaging.

The hospital was first organized in 1946 by three doctors as Hazel Crest General Hospital, a 16-bed facility located at 171st Street and Dixie Highway. The hospital was renamed South Suburban Hospital in 1966, opened a new facility at its current site in 1971 and is now a full service acute care hospital, licensed for 325 beds. South Suburban Hospital also operates family health centers in Glenwood, Tinley Park, Frankfort, Hazel Crest and Richton Park. Click here for more information about South Suburban Hospital.

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TIF Districts

The Village has two designated TIF areas, both on 175th Street between Dixie Highway and Kedzie Avenue.

Palmer Lake

Location: On 175th between Governor’s Highway and Dixie Highway.
Site: 30 acres total; six acres available
TIF Established in 1988; 5 years remaining

Name Type of Business
Graycor The corporate headquarters of construction company.
Southwest Community Services A non-profit job training facility for the mentally challenged.
Ruklic Screw A wholesale distributor of nuts, bolts and screws.
Hoekstra Building Automation A manufacturer of computerized control systems.
Palmer Centre Gierczyk Development Corporate offices, developers of Palmer Lake.
Homewood Industries Manufacturer of kitchen cabinets including "Cabinetpak."
Bailey Controls Assembler of heating and air conditioning controls.
  • For site information, contact Geno Bilotto, Gierczyk Development, 17475 Jovanna, #2A, Homewood, IL 60430, 708/647-4747.

Cherry Creek Business Park

Location: Vacant Land on 175th, between Governor’s Highway and Kedzie
Site: 26.8 acres zoned M-OR which permits light manufacturing, research, and offices.
TIF established in 1996, the land has not yet been developed

  • For more information, contact: Mr. Bill Milan, LAN Construction.

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Village of Hazel Crest
Commercial and Industrial Development Opportunities

Site
No.

Acres

Location

Current Zoning

Contact
1 6.45 ; Vacant Land South side of 183rd at Lawndale Special Use:
Planned Business B-2		 Dave Zajicek
(630/954-2100)
2 2 parcels each
at 100 ft. X 310 ft.;
Vacant Land		 North of 183rd; between Lawndale & Springfield   David Palmer
3753 W. 153rd
Midlothian, IL 60445
3 46,000 sq. ft.;
Redevelopment
(TIF Proposed)		 French Village Shopping Center Special Use
Business (B-2)		 Bernard Susman
(847/272-6800)
4 11.13 Ac.
Vacant Land		 South of 167th, West of 294, North of 80, East Kedzie Special Use  
5 27 Acres
(TIF)		 North of 175th between Governor’s Highway & Mahoney M-OR (Light Mfg. & Office Research) Bill Milan
 at LAN Development
6 5 acres; Remaining
(TIF)		 Palmer Lake Business Park at 175th & Jodave M-OR Geno Billotto
Gierczyk Corporation
(708/647-4747)
  • For more information, contact Robert Palmer,  Village Manager, 708/335-9600.

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Village of Hazel Crest
Available Leasing Space

Name & Location

Owner

Contact

Sq. Footage

Vacancies

Fountainbleau Court
3450 W. 183rd Street

Repak Real Estate

Alan C. Kaplan
1540 Hazel Ave.
Deerfield, Illinois 60015
(847) 770-3259
(847)914-0728 (Fax)
alankaplan@ameritech.net

38,696 sq. ft.

1 @750 sq.ft.
1 @1250 sq.ft.

French Village
183rd & Kedzie Avenue

Val Skarlov
SLS Management, Inc.
736 Western Avenue,
Ste. 301
Lake Forest, IL 60045
(847) 735-0200
(847) 295-0601 (Fax)

Joseph R. Jankovsky
Midland Realty & Development
One Trans Am Plaza, Ste. 310
Oak Brook Terrace, IL 60181
(630) 621-1500
(630) 630-620-1501 (Fax)
jankovsky@midrd.com

53,131 sq. ft.

41,100 Sq. ft.

Grenoble Square
3330 W. 183rd Street

Paradise Properties, LLC.

Moo & Oink & More
Mort Levy (773) 420-2103
Cathryn Taylor (773) 420-2102
7158 S. Stony Island
Chicago, IL 60649
(773) 420-2002 (Fax)

93,000 sq. ft.

3500 sq. ft.

Hazel Crest Center
175th & Kedzie Avenue

Matanky Realty Group

Terri J. Cox
Dir. Of Leasing & Sales
1332 N. Halsted, Ste. 300
Chicago, IL 60622
(312) 337-1001
(312) 337-5996
www.matanky.com

83,800 sq. ft.

2,000 sq. ft.

Highlands Shopping Center
17302 S. Kedzie Avenue

Arthur Wolf

Arthur Wolf
11 Graymoor Lane
Olympia Fields, IL 60461
(708) 748-0748

 6,400 sq. ft.

None

Karp’s Plaza
170th & Dixie Highway

Joseph J. Karp

Joseph J. Karp & Company
9358 S. 83rd Avenue
Hickory Hills, IL 60457
(708) 430-8300
(708) 430-8301 (Fax)

7,200 sq. ft.

None

The Crossings
175th & Kedzie
(N.E .Corner)

Ted Pyrilis

Anna Reidler
5515 Madison Street
Morton Grove, IL 60053
(708) 470-2366

11,000 s. ft.

2500 sq. ft.

Updated Nov. 2004

  • For more information, contact Robert Palmer,  Village Manager, 708/335-9600.

Name & Location

Owner

Contact

Sq. Footage

Vacancies

Crest Courts Offices
17500 – 17516 Carriageway 

Mars Equities

Diane DeCicco
Mars Equities
8100 W. 185th Street
Mokena, IL 60448
(708) 532-4321
(708) 614-1987
Ddecicco@marsequities.com

17500 – 4262 sq. ft.
17504 – 4650 sq. ft.
17508 – 4650 sq. ft.
17512 – 7440 sq. ft.
17516 – 1813 sq. ft.

Yes
598 sq. ft.
1860 sq. ft.
930 sq. ft.

Doctor’s Pavilion
17850 S. Kedzie

GLR Medical Properties One

Brenner & Wiley
Steve Souris
10200 S. Cicero, Ste. 203
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
(708) 499-4660
(708) 499-3156 (Fax)

50,491 sq. ft.

Yes

Medical Park Condos
3330 W. 177th

Chiliad Partners Ltd.
Gierczyk Constructors, Inc.

Rodney Falls
Chiliad Partners Ltd.
311 S. Wacker Dr., Ste. 4550
Chicago, IL 60606
(312) 203-2959
(708) 647-4748

62, 000 sq. ft.

Yes
3 Units
10,000 sq. ft.

 

South Suburban Medical Ctr.
17860 S. Kedzie

South Suburban Professional Building Partners

Dr. Prakash G. Sane
17680 S. Kedzie, Ste. 201
Hazel Crest, IL 60429
(708) 799-2499
(708) 799-4093

7,100 sq. ft.

Yes
1,500 sq. ft.

South Suburban Professional Building
171st & Dixie Highway

Bruce Rackouski

Eagle Properties
1820 Ridge Road
Homewood, IL 60430
(708) 206-0496
(708) 799-4858 (Fax)

11,292 sq. ft.

2,274 sq. ft.

Stonebridge Professional Building
17577 S. Kedzie

 

Dr. Bansi D. Sharma
17577 S. Kedzie,  Ste. 109
Hazel Crest, IL 60429
(708) 799-1780
(708) 957-5150

 6,250 sq. ft.

 

Village West Professional Building
3649 W. 183rd Street

Collin Alpert

Collin Alpert & Assoc., LLC
3649 W. 183rd Street
Hazel Crest, IL 60429
(708) 799-1520
(708) 922-1023 (Fax)

29,764 sq. ft.

 800 sq. ft.

Updated Apr. 2005

  • For more information, contact Robert Palmer,  Village Manager, 708/335-9600.

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Last Revised: September 11, 2005 02:35 PM