Plainfield OKs Plans for Gas Station, Car Wash

Site near Route 30 and 119th Street received approval for annexation, rezoning, special use.

In about a decade, a parcel of property at 25491 W. 119th Street, near the intersection of 119th and Route 30, could become home to a fuel station and car wash. Currently, the site is home to a residence and a facility that manufactures sheds and picnic tables. On Monday, trustees voted in favor of annexing the property into the village, along with rezoning it for commercial use. The property received approval for pre-annexation in August. READ: OWNER EYES FUTURE GAS STATION for 119th STREET SITE A nearby parcel, known as the Sabadosh property, was also annexed into the village Monday so that the future gas station site would be contiguous to the village. The property owners, Peter and Gaylene Metrou, are no strangers to small business. …

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Owner Eyes Future Gas Station for 119th Street Site

But the change will be a long time coming; trustees OK'ed a "pre-annexation" agreement for a property that could be developed into a fuel station in the next decade, owner says.

Plainfield trustees on Monday signed off on a pre-annexation agreement for a site near 119th Street and Route 30 that could one day become a gas station. But it could take about a decade for the project to become a reality, according to Plainfield Mike Martin, who addressed the board behalf of property owners Peter and Gaylene Metrou. The couple, owners of the Grandma's Table Family Restaurant in Montgomery, currently rent the property at 25491 W. 119th Street to a tenant that manufactures sheds and picnic tables. There is also a home on the property. The property is located in unincorporated Will County and is not contiguous to the village. The pre-annexation will allow the parcel to be annexed into the village if the owners of the …

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Plan Commission Votes No on Gas Station Plan

Rezoning and special use request for Route 30/Route 59 project will go before the village board next.

In the end, all seven plan commissioners came to the same conclusion regarding a proposed gas station at Route 30/Joliet Road and Route 59, voting to recommend denial of a developer’s rezoning and special use request. “I can’t support the filling station or the drive-through,” Chairman James Sobkoviak said of the proposal, which calls for a BP station, eight fuel pumps, a 3,600-square-foot convenience store and a drive-thru such as a Dunkin’ Donuts or a Subway restaurant. The project received pushback from some residents, who were opposed to a new gas station occupying the former site of the Go-Tane station. That station was demolished to make way for the Route 59 widening project. Back when the Go-Tane was built, Sobkoviak said, "There …

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Ram Seichert

1:03 pm on Thursday, June 21, 2012

I agree completely. I don't know where some of these people come up with these bids. Kind of similar to the purchasing of the homes for the Renwick bridge. All that money when they aren't worth nothin.   more ›

A Town Called Plainfield

Lambert: Windmill Diner Survived Prohibition and Thrived until the '50s

John and Mabel Powell opened their restaurant-saloon-gas station on Lincoln Highway in 1925.

The Inquiry What is the history of Powell’s Mill along the Lincoln Highway? The Facts Opening around 1925, Powell’s Mill was a longtime landmark along the famed Lincoln Highway. The windmill-inspired diner and gas station stood on the west bank of Lake Renwick, about one mile south of the village limits. However, Powell’s Mill was not the first business operated at Plainfield by the family of John Powell. From Coal Fields to Plainfield The Powell family’s story arises out of the coalfields of Illinois, where the hard-working immigrant family pursued a better life in America.  In 1864, as a new water well was being dug on a farm south of Wilmington, a rich vein of black coal was discovered. Soon, a string of new mining towns sprung up in …

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