Waukegan revises deal for renovation of downtown buildings; ‘We’re not giving a blank check’

Waukegan revises deal for renovation of downtown buildings; ‘We’re not giving a blank check’

Within a month of the Waukegan City Council initiating an agreement with the Waukegan Community Development Partnership for the renovation of two downtown buildings, the terms of the transaction changed with one council member concerned the city was taking too much of a risk. Planning to renovate the two vacant downtown buildings into mixed-use projects with commercial space on the ground floor and apartments on the upper stories, the partnershi…