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the wilmette beacon | August 23, 2018 | 3<br />
Wilmette Park Board<br />
Demolition of Gillson beach house delayed<br />
Todd Marver<br />
Freelance Reporter<br />
Demolition was originally<br />
slated to begin the<br />
day after Labor Day for<br />
the $9.7 million Gillson<br />
beach house and parking<br />
lot project the board approved<br />
July 31, but the<br />
start date has been pushed<br />
back.<br />
Due to a one-week delay<br />
in the bid process<br />
compared to the initial<br />
schedule, work is anticipated<br />
to begin the Monday<br />
following Labor Day,<br />
as compared to originally<br />
planned, the day after Labor<br />
Day.<br />
At this time, it is not<br />
anticipated that this delay<br />
in starting the work will<br />
cause a delay in the conclusion<br />
of the project prior<br />
to Memorial Day weekend<br />
in 2019.<br />
“We are looking at a<br />
demolition happening<br />
probably about a week<br />
after Labor Day, probably<br />
somewhere about Sept.<br />
10,” Wilmette Park District<br />
Executive Director<br />
Steve Wilson said.<br />
Subsequent to the<br />
board’s July 31 action,<br />
the staff at <strong>WB</strong> Olson, the<br />
construction managers for<br />
the project, as well as the<br />
architects for the project,<br />
Woodhouse Tinucci Architects,<br />
have been vetting the<br />
bids and compiling contracts<br />
in conjunction with<br />
the District’s legal counsel<br />
from Tressler LLP.<br />
As the contracts are assembled<br />
and ready for signature,<br />
Executive Director<br />
Steve Wilson has been<br />
signing the contracts in accordance<br />
with the board’s<br />
July 31 vote.<br />
“I’ve been working a<br />
lot with our construction<br />
managers at <strong>WB</strong> Olson on<br />
getting contracts signed,”<br />
Wilson said. “They are<br />
facilitating the contract<br />
process and getting the<br />
documents to me to sign<br />
electronically and then<br />
back to the contractors.<br />
So we have some of our<br />
trades already fully signed<br />
and some yet to go.”<br />
The parks and recreation<br />
committee is scheduled to<br />
hold a meeting 6:30 p.m.<br />
Aug. 28 at Village Hall<br />
where it plans to approve<br />
contracts for the Langdon<br />
Park renovation project.<br />
Contractor bidding opens<br />
on Aug. 23.<br />
“We’re out to bid for the<br />
project,” Wilson said. “The<br />
bids will be opened on the<br />
23rd. Nothing is done until<br />
you approve contracts, so<br />
those bids are out there in<br />
the public. Contractors are<br />
looking at it and putting<br />
together their proposals<br />
and that’ll be opened on<br />
the 23.”<br />
Renovation is slated to<br />
include removal of existing<br />
playground equipment,<br />
removal of sand<br />
surfacing and border material,<br />
removal of asphalt<br />
sidewalks, providing and<br />
installing new playground<br />
equipment, poured-inplace<br />
rubber safety surfacing,<br />
concrete walks, brick<br />
pavers, benches, decorative<br />
fencing (port-a-let<br />
screening), drinking fountain<br />
and site restoration.<br />
“We’ve heard not universal,<br />
but certainly strong<br />
support for a larger playground,”<br />
Commissioner<br />
Bryan Abbott said. “A<br />
playground that is unique,<br />
natural, rainbow colors instead<br />
of greens and browns<br />
so that it would blend in<br />
with the park and some<br />
unique equipment.”<br />
Abbott desires to lengthen<br />
the width of the sidewalk<br />
from five to six feet.<br />
“With regard to the sidewalk,<br />
five foot is what the<br />
width of those sidewalks<br />
are now,” he said. “Most<br />
parks have 8-foot sidewalks.<br />
Six-foot to me is a<br />
nice compromise.”<br />
Two residents spoke during<br />
public comment about<br />
Phase 1 of the Village’s<br />
neighborhood stormwater<br />
storage project. Phase 1<br />
calls for an underground<br />
detention structure at either<br />
Centennial Park or<br />
Community Playfield.<br />
“What criteria will the<br />
park commissioners be using<br />
to decide between the<br />
Community Playfield and<br />
Centennial Park for the<br />
stormwater tanks?” said<br />
Edie Rowell, president of<br />
the Little Garden Club of<br />
Wilmette.<br />
“I’m here to ask that the<br />
board really stand very<br />
firm and recommend very<br />
strongly that the park district<br />
preserve Centennial<br />
Park prairie,” said prairie<br />
founder Charlotte Adelman.<br />
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