What Should Go in the Former Odegaard's?
The brick building in the heart of the downtown offers three floors of potential space for purchase or lease from the owner Mr. Odegaard himself.
Unlike most of the buildings available for new business in Western Springs, Odegaard's doesn't have a realtor's sign in the window. Why: because it's being sold by the man himself, Arthur Odegaard, of the family that operated the cleaners since the Great Depression (!) and up until September of 2008.
We didn't manage to get in touch with Mr. Odegaard this week for pricing on the building, but we do know that it's available for sale or for lease, and that the two-story-plus-basement building could also be divvied up into multiple future businesses.
Like the ever-discussed Tischler's, the ex-Odegaard's is right near the center of town, and thus has high Western Springs visibility (you can't miss looking at it if driving south on Wolf Road.) The red-brick facade is regal and imposing, but might be even more so with a business sign or two over it.
What would fit here? Or, perhaps, what multiple businesses would fit here?
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Address: 805 Burlington Ave.
Size: 7,000 (first floor), 2,500 (second floor), 1500-1700 (basement)
Asking rent: Unknown.
Asking purchase price: Unknown.
Former occupant: Odegaard's Cleaners & Launderers (1937-2008.)
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What do you think would look great filling this prominent building close to the Wolf/Burlington crosshairs of the Village downtown?
Dell
8:22 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Are there any environmental issues with the site? Unfortunately I had heard that the soil needs to be mitigated somehow?
Billy Gallagher
9:41 am on Saturday, August 4, 2012
What great marketing! A place that's for sale and no one can determine the asking price nor even reach the seller. Paging WSBA.....anyone???
EK Walsh
8:36 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
Music / Dance / Art studios.
I think it was a huge business FAIL by both the Village, and Music Makers - not to find a downtown location. What a perfect set-up...Kids taking a 1/2 hr. music lesson & parents/nannies/siblings with time on their hands. Time that could easily be spent in the hardware store, having coffee, shopping for a gift, buying lunch/dinner - or ALL of the above!
Joseph R. Martan
12:04 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
And the plot thickens. Wasn't that parcel by the Theatre, in part, purchased for Music Makers to have a site?
Dell
9:17 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
An art/music/dance studio would've been great! If there are environmental issues, it would probably be too expensive for a business like that to mitigate those. I wonder who is responsible for making sure the site is environmentally sound?
EK Walsh
12:57 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
No, Music Makers will be going in across the street from Field Park School. They purchased the house & will build their studio on that site. A neighborhood street, in an already congested area just doesn't seem the ideal spot to me. But, classes like these would draw people into town - to drop their kids off. Because of the relatively short time of a class - it does not always make sense to go home....You just need to turn around & come right back for pick-up. An in-town location would be ideal for generating traffic to other local businesses.
Darren McRoy
2:26 pm on Monday, August 6, 2012
This is correct, about the Music Makers location.