Why aren't Village residents included in the "frequent" talks w/ Roundys?

The parking lot next to Sunseekers is owned by Shoreline or whatever they are called now since the split. They bought what was formerly a shade shop for ~$375,000 (N. E. corner of Prospect / Capitol) which had been converted from a gas station. Tore it down and resurfaced and striped out the parking spots that were created. Now, the reason they purchased this was because they needed the parking for their multi story apt building across the street that they purchased some time, though not long, before. Why? Because Shorewood doesn't or didn't allow parking on the streets at night and it is quite expensive to call in nightly and the only other option would be for people to line up in the que to vie for spaces blocks away in the Atwater parking lot. SO, why would Shoreline rob from Peter to pay Paul so to speak unless they are working out some deal w/ Shorewood for all night street parking 24/7 in exchange for redeveloping the lot that is now a surface parking lot that is necessary for them to fill up their property on Prospect/Capitol and charge as much as they can + parking (which helps them greatly).

Don't hold your breaths on being involved in any preliminary discussions on these sites. Love to be a fly on the wall seeing all the behind the door meetings/deals cut w/ preferred developers w/ all the incentives/grants. How many more TIF districts will the village create?

Also, Shoreline or whatever branch of Shoreline owns that parking lot next to Sunseekers is not a developer. Or from my knowledge they have never built. They buy, so it would be interesting to see if they undertake re-developing the site, or sell off the lot and have someone else do it or do what was done on the Cornerstone and just employ the services of a developer w/ ties and history to Shorewood who has an inside track ie Wired Properties and have them act as General Contractor and handle all build out and get their fee and walk away...Time will tell. Hot location especially since they will probably get a variance and go up, up, up and no one or nothing will ever block their view east towards the lake unless they tear down Sunseekers and it makes sense to re-develop or better yet buy it out and combine the 2 parcels for one big development.

That latter part may seem a bit far fetched, but no one has ever been told what Dan Katz was paid for his parking lot behind Sendiks and the attorney working for the Village on this deal mentioned the "high" acquisition costs involved in that deal ie Mandel's new $35,000,000 development that will have an estimated property tax value of ~22,000,000 a good 25 years down the road. Ie someone made a killing and I don't put it past any of the decision makers in Shorewood to throw as much $$ as they can to make a development happen. They just create another TIF and get cagey w/ financing terms/grants/payback times.

Can't wait.