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Cancer Center wants to buy adjacent property
NORMAL -- The Community Cancer Center has a contract to purchase the back 5.4 acres of Custer Bros. Nursery and could use some of the land for a future expansion. Meanwhile, South Bay Partners Ltd. of Dallas still hopes to build an Alzheimer's facility on the front 2.6 acres of the property. The proposals will go before the Normal Planning Commission at its 5 p.m. Jan. 5 meeting at City Hall. Barb Nathan, executive director of the cancer center, said there are no immediate plans for the property but the purchase "allows us to keep our environment and expand." The cancer center is in a tree-lined area west of Custer Bros. on Vernon Avenue. "We are full," Nathan said of the current site. The center will conduct a facilities planning study after the first of the year to determine what portion -- if any -- of the Custer Bros. property is needed to expand, she said. "We don't need all 5 acres, so we'll probably market the other parcels," Nathan said. The cancer center is requesting the land be rezoned from agriculture to office district. The town code only allows about 30 uses in an office district, and building director Greg Troemel said most are professionally oriented. Nathan said the hope would be for something complementary to the center, such as a medical office, pharmacy or other health-related business. Town code restricts most uses to daytime hours. The cancer center has a good relationship with its neighbors, Nathan said, and wants to maintain it. Neighbors voiced several concerns with a previous plan by South Bay Partners to purchase the entire Custer Bros. site and build housing on the back 5 acres. South Bay ended withdrawing the plan in September. Patrick McGonigle of South Bay said the new plan still calls for a 66-bed Alzheimer's facility but the roadway into the site has been moved from the east side of the property to the west side, as suggested by neighbors whose property abuts the east side. The road would be one of two entrances into the site and would be named Custer Court, according to the proposal. McGonigle said if the plan is approved, construction could start in the spring and the facility opened by spring 2007. South Bay is opening a similar Alzheimer's facility in Springfield next month and in Urbana in February. E-mail this story | Print this story | Search archives | RSS Show comments |  Hide comments | Hide comments on all stories |
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