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The City Council has agreed to move forward with plans for a tax increment financing district for the eastern portion of Wheaton’s downtown, setting Dec. 6 as the date on which the council will vote on–and likely approve–the proposed redevelopment district.
At a planning session this week, the council discussed fine-tuning the proposed redevelopment district documents, including possibly identifying locations where property condemnation might be used to accomplish redevelopment goals.
But the proposed project that has generated the most discussion thus far is a plan to expand a Jewel store that would require the demolition of six local merchants’ buildings. Several of those affected merchants were at this week’s meeting.
