Coopers Hawk building under construction in Oak Lawn

By Steve Metsch smetsch@southtownstar.com October 15, 2014 5:16PM

Updated: October 16, 2014 2:15AM

The next piece of Oak Lawns Stoney Creek Promenade is being built construction started this week on a Coopers Hawk Winery & Restaurant.

It is the second big name thats part of the upscale retail development planned for the northwest corner of 111th Street and Cicero Avenue in Oak Lawn. The first, Marianos grocery store, set sales records in its first day of business, officials have said.

Mayor Sandra Bury, village manager Larry Deetjen and several trustees spoke highly of the restaurant during Tuesday nights village board meeting.

Trustee Mike Carberry, 6th, said the development is going to go down as a successful deal for Oak Lawn.

Not long ago, there were a few cars and a lot of seagulls out there, he said of the site that formerly was home to a Kmart, a shuttered Dominicks grocery store and other retailers like a muffler shop, hair salon, restaurant, and chiropractic office.

Carberry praised the project in response to criticism of the deal by Trustee Bob Streit, 3rd, who fears the village will end up losing money or not make as much as expected when its all said and done.

You should embrace it. Youre a lone guy with this deal. Its going to be a winner for Oak Lawn. Get behind it, Carberry told Streit.

That was after Streit engaged in a heated debate with Bury and village finance director Brian Hanigan about the financial implications of the village entering into a deal with Hamilton Partners regarding the former Edgar Funeral Home, just north of the site.

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Coopers Hawk building under construction in Oak Lawn