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Under pressure to settle a developer’s lawsuit, the Homewood Village Board agreed Tuesday night to give up the town’s control over anything that gets built on the former Calumet Country Club.
The decision to exclude the property from the south suburb’s boundaries could give the developer, Diversified Partners, a better chance to construct a trucking hub on the 127-acre site at 2136 175
th St. The board’s 4-0 vote clears the way for Diversified to ask neighboring Hazel Crest to annex the property.
Under intense pressure from people who opposed the industrial development on open land, Homewood trustees on March 9 unanimously rejected zoning for the project. But the decision left the village open to damages in a lawsuit Diversified filed to bring the property to Hazel Crest.
The buyer of a medical office building in the Stroudwater area of Portland was attracted to the prospect of Maine Medical Partners Dermatology as a long-term tenant and also views medical space as a stable asset.
Northland Enterprises of Portland bought 1601 Congress St. from OGH Realty LLP for $4.23 million. Sam LeGeyt and TC Haffenreffer from NAI The Dunham Group brokered the sale, which closed March 3.
The property, on outer Congress Street, comprises a 29,000-square-foot office building on 12.1 acres.
Maine Medical Partners Dermatology will start renovations to the first floor and plans to occupy the 10,000-square-foot space by early summer, according to a news release.
Homewood officially said no to a rezoning of the Calumet Country Club that would have opened the door for a redevelopment plan calling for a logistics park at the site.