Meijer Rezoning Concerns Land Owner
The Village Board amended its land use map Tuesday to accommodate a Meijer store; however, the man who owns that land says village leaders overreached.
There’s no doubt the proposed 200,000-square-foot Meijer development has created a buzz amongst residents in Sussex lately. But the Schellin brothers, who own the land on which the store would be built, have concerns about their future. The Village Board on Tuesday rezoned the Schellin’s land to make way for the big-box retailer and gas station that will rest on 20 acres of the roughly 68 acre plot. Steven Schellin supports the Meijer development, but he feels the village went too far by deeming 18 acres of his land an environmental corridor, which undevelopable for future buyers. “We support the Meijer project and those changes required to be made in order to make the project a success. However, Meijer has not purchased the land yet, and …
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Lois Liebau-Templin
4:54 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
You can count on us not shopping at the Meijer Store. When we say we are against something, we are against it. It is no problems for us to travel the short distance to Capitol Drive, and 164, to do our shopping. We so not patronize any business just because it is close. We have more ambition than that. Why doesn't Sussex try to fill the empty stores that are just sitting there? There is a need … more ›