By Madeline Ackley Salazar | Your Valley
Between 2014 and 2017 the city of Litchfield Park purchased roughly 30 acres of land on the southeast corner of Litchfield Road and Village Parkway.
Those pieces of land — once privately owned, but now in the hands of the city — are part of the long-awaited Litchfield Square development. City leadership seeks to sell about 12 acres of that land to developers, but before the city can move forward on sales that exceed $1.5 million, it’ll need a stamp of approval from voters in an election scheduled for Tuesday, May 17.
So far, just one parcel has sold at an amount of $600,000, but city leaders expect some of the larger parcels could go for much more in the future, especially if developers are purchasing more than one parcel.
“We’re getting the approval ahead of time,” Mayor Thomas Schoaf told The Independent, “so we don’t have to come back and try to do it later.”
