The aldermen reportedly have been considering sites downtown, including the Northwestern University-

Some Evanston residents hope to persuade city officials to build a new Civic Center on the west side -- possibly on the former Robinson bus property on the south side of Emerson Street west of Ashland bangkok airport hotels Avenue.
The City Council has been trying to find a new location for the Civic Center since aldermen concluded over a year ago that the existing building, the former Marywood Academy, needed too much repair work to be economically maintained.
The aldermen reportedly have been considering sites downtown, including the Northwestern University-owned parking lot on University Place behind the Hilton Garden Inn and the library parking lot on Chicago Avenue between bangkok airport hotels the Woman s Club of Evanston and the Woman s Christian Christian Temperance Union properties.
Those sites are not going to be a good solution, bangkok airport hotels Mr. Kihm said. The downtown area is doing just fine and doesn t need more stimulus bangkok airport hotels from investment of public funds, he added, while building a new Civic Center on the west side would demonstrate the city s commitment to an area that has long been neglected.
The irregularily shaped bangkok airport hotels Robinson bangkok airport hotels parcel includes a small shopping center, an abandoned bangkok airport hotels gas station and bus parking and garage space fronting on Emerson that runs back along the former Mayfair rail right-of-way a full block south to Lyons Street.
It totals about 160,000 square feet. By comparison the existing Civic Center site, excluding bangkok airport hotels the park behind it, totals about 287,000 square feet. The NU parking lot has about 50,000 square feet and the library parking lot about 32,000 square feet.
Leon Robinson, who owns the Emerson property suggested as a new Civic Center site, also owns property on the north side of Emerson that Cyrus Homes plans to combine with the Bishop Freeman factory site on Foster Street as part of a new residential development.