Comments on: International Plaza

By: Twenty Years At the Keyboard - Windypundit

Twenty Years At the Keyboard - Windypundit — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 20:42:50 +0000

[…] some photography. I also ran a series of posts about eminent domain abuse and used my photos to document the properties at […]

By: Dane Hooper

Dane Hooper — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:47:06 +0000

Ron Popp at Century 21 Advisors in Arlington Heights – phone 847-952-0909 has a law suit pending right now for Multi-Millions of dollars against the village of AH people for this area of the botch. Call him and he will tell you lots of interesting stuff.

I worked that area in real estate with RE/MAX and later with Ron Popp and . . . well I have some infomation the supports Ron’s law suit.

By: REPORTER

REPORTER — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:36:25 +0000

International Plaza is Run By AGolf L.L.C the owner is a small asian woman probably in her 70’s. She is a lier and a thief and a terrible landlord.Who lies to her tenants, lies at the signing of the lease and tries to milk her tenants for repairs to the building. She is a multimillionaire and will bitch to you about cost of a piece of paper. Everyone at the plaza hates her. She cons you into signing a 50 page lease that has hidden trapps in it! She uses a bum looking guy named Tom to do repairs illegal repairs for example. Illegally dumping free-on in air condition units on the buildings. Tom does not have a license to do this. This is ILLEGAL! Also she will tell you that she will maintain the heating and air for the 1st year of the lease which is a lie, she will not have coils cleaned or filters changed. I had a space there and the unit filters were not cleaned for 10 years. Which will cause units to break down. She will also tell you the heating and air units are new or 1 year old, LIE! They are over 30 years old and interrible condition. So after the 1st year of the lease that she doesnt maintain the heating and air if in year 2 it doesnt work guess who has to pay for it? YOU! Too further note, if the unit does not work in the 1st year and if you yell and bitch enough she will have it fixed buy not puting in new good quality parts but by having her handyman put in old parts from other units. Yes, taking parts from other units and placing them in your unit. Junk work right! Susan is a con artist!

By: FORMER TENANT

FORMER TENANT — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:15:43 +0000

By: Target Man

Target Man — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:52:54 +0000

American loves Target LOL

By: International Dog Sh%t

International Dog Sh%t — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:11:07 +0000

This shopping center is absolutely terrible. Its an eye sore to the entire community. I have been living here for over 50 years and I am embarrassed to drive by it. There are much nicer shopping centers in the immediate area such as the Jewel-Osco shopping center on Golf and Arlington Heights Rd, the Tuesday Mornings shopping center across the street, even the Lovers Lane shopping center on Golf down the street from the eye sore.

I cant wait for someone to tear down this dump. I’ll even consider a landfill instead of that place!!!

By: Target Man

Target Man — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:02:41 +0000

The center looks horrible and TARGET SHOULD HAVE GONE THERE!!! The place looks like complete dog sh**!!! I can’t believe a bunch of idiots stopped it from happening. You should all be ashamed of yourselves!!!
TARGET WILL RETURN AND I WILL SEE ALL YOU LOUD MOUTHS SHOPPING THERE!

IDIOTS!!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:59:46 +0000

Lauren: “a waste of space”. “the big picture”

Wow, I didn’t know we were socialists.

The inalienable rights of individuals are not to be subservient to the government or society. This is one of the most crucial tenets of our Constitution.

There are plenty of legal ways to improve a neighborhood without stealing property.

My house has doubled in value in a few years, and no one had to kick anyone out to do it.

I wonder how you would feel if it was your house or your parents house?

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:52:01 +0000

I am sure you won’t post this, but…I commute every morning on the 8:01 express train and I saw you “International Plaza People” out there this morning, so I logged on.

The thing is, I remember moving to Arlington Heights 20 years ago when the town was barely a blip on the radar. Since then my parents home has more than quadrupled in value. I personally enjoyed the benefit of the Windsor, South, Prospect, trio of excellent schools. I graduated four years later, with a degree in Political Science/Pre-Law from DePaul University.

I find our renewed and refreshed downtown area to be the very best thing about our community, even though most of it is relatively new. I will probably choose to live here for the rest of my life. I love Arlington Heights, I respect our village board, and I support the big picture. Tax revenues mean a better community, blighted shopping centers with purely nostalgic value are a waste of space. I grew up blocks from Arlington Market, so I get it, but at some point we all must realize that things must change and evolve or they will eventually perish.

By: Dean

Dean — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:17:58 +0000

The Village of Arlington Heights should be ashamed of itself. This is clearly an abuse of power and a gross abuse of eminent domain. The original intent of eminent domain was aquire property for public works (highways, damns, etc) that would benefit the community. It was never intended to be used to steal private property to generate tax revenue. Follow the money people. You can be sure there are plenty of tax taking people in government benefitting from this and not a single tax paying private citizen. In fact I wouldn’t be surprised if the teachers union has their filthy money grubbing hands in the pot!
You should be very angry people!
Boycott Arlington Heights!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 18:05:04 +0000

Thank you Jim.

I was wondering what motivates village boards to go through the trouble of eminent domain hearings. What if, in some way, they are doing the right thing?

Now that I realize that an unholy alliance of real estate salesmen, bankers and architects stand to benefit from these deals, it makes all the sense in the world to fight it.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:58:39 +0000

I want to make some comments on the comment made by Russ on Oct. 11th. I don’t know where you got your facts on Arl. Hts. restricting the size of teardowns but they are totally wrong. I live next door to 2 of them and they are over 3 times the size of my home and every other home on the block.
The limitations they placed were a smokescreen to make it look like they were sympathetic to preserving the character of neighborhoods.I went out and collected over 500 signatures from residents who were opposed to the revised sq. foot allowances which they passed. I made copies for each trustee and provided them at a village board meeting. I was told to bring them to the ordinance review committe and the design commission which I did, only to be ignored again. I also found out while attending these commission meetings that the board members were all appointed by our own trustees and were populated by real estate agents, members of local banks lawyers, and local architects. I asked why no one from the aingle story neighborhoods who were being most seriously affected were not members on these boards and was told that anyone could volunteer but would have to be approved by the trustees. In further investigation I found that many of the appointed members were profitting off the teardowns through the designing of them, the financing of them and the sales of them. It’s a great country isn’t it? Eminent domain is just another tool for these thieves.

By: Cal Skinner

Cal Skinner — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:33:36 +0000

If you would like to read about the TIF fight in Crystal Lake, take a look at McHenryCountyBlog.com. No pictures of businesses the city council wants to “go away,” but details you won’t read in the daily paper.

By: Glenn Anderson

Glenn Anderson — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:30:47 +0000

another example of an out of control judiciary setting law . We need a major change.

By: Windypundit

Windypundit — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:12:14 +0000

" I thought it was already deemed ILLEGAL to eminent domain one private use area to deed over to another private use area."

No, it's not actually illegal. The Supreme Court's recent Kelo decision confirmed that it's legal to do if there is a public benefit, even if that public benefit was simply that the new owners would pay more taxes.

I'm no expert, but I believe eminent domain has long been used to condemn abandoned buildings so they could be taken away from owners who weren't maintaining or using them. This evolved into the ability to declare entire neighborhoods "blighted" so they could be redeveloped. Lately, they've started to take properties if the owners aren't using the property as well as they should; i.e. in a way that pays more taxes.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 04:06:16 +0000

Am I missing something here? I thought it was already deemed ILLEGAL to eminent domain one private use area to deed over to another private use area. Please double check this. If Arlington Heights wanted to eminent domain this mall to put in a public park or a water park, they could do it… but NOT to deed over to Target.

By: Russ

Russ — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:05:50 +0000

This is interesting because Arlington Heights is ALSO severely restricting residential teardowns, limiting the size of homes that can be built in place of the old ones. So the town government/residents are worried about people putting up homes that are “too upscale” but can’t stand the idea of small businesses that aren’t upscale enough. Can’t have it both ways!

By: Gary O

Gary O — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:26:47 +0000

Wow! This is America? I am dumbfounded that this kind of thing is possible. If this is allowed to happen, I will boycott any stores that take over that area, though I’m afraid it will do little good against the draw of the new store(s). I am ashamed to say my initial reaction was, “Ooh! A Target closer to home!”

I hope you do continue to point out these abuses, but I also hope and pray that someday soon there won’t be any to report.
-Gary