Mundelein flips car wash site to owners of proposed brewery and restaurant

Just weeks just after finalizing a offer to purchase a former car wash in city, Mundelein officers on Monday agreed to market the land to a firm organizing to work a restaurant and brewery nearby.

The Tonality Brewing Co. will get the land at 167 N. Seymour Ave. for about $138,075 — the exact sum the village expended on the assets in May well. Tonality plans to operate in the previous village fire station just to the north at 169 N. Seymour.

Tonality intends to raze the six-bay car clean making and flip the 50 %-acre internet site into a parking lot.

The enterprise that after operated there was called the Watertower Car Clean. It has been shut given that at the very least 2015.

In addition to getting south of the aged fireplace station and a water tower, the parcel is west of the village-owned Archer Company Middle, where the Tighthead Brewing Co. and other companies now operate, and it is just not considerably from village hall and the village’s Metra station.

Mundelein officials have been functioning for several years to encourage non-public redevelopment in that spot.

Tonality representatives announced very last yr that they program to obtain the outdated fire station, which most just lately had served as a public performs maintenance garage, and run a company there. The two-tale structure was built in the 1940s.

Officials agreed to sell the previous station to Tonality for about $340,000, and they offered tax rebates and other monetary incentives to make it come about.

Tonality has right until Sept. 15 to shut the purchases of the car wash and fireplace station houses.