SEARS CENTRE

An 11,000 seat indoor arena featuring sports, music and specialevents. Commitments have been made for a professional hockey team, soccer, an indoor football team and a National Lacrosse League Team. Other entertainment will include concerts, performing arts, family shows, sports exhibitions and college athletics. Some135 events per year will bring over 750,000 consumers per year to the area. Go to www.searscentre.com for more details.

Cabela’s

This 185,000 square foot store typically draws some 5 million visitorsper year. The premier outfitter offers taxidermy museums, dioramas,aquariums, a shooting gallery and fudge shop to extend the shopping experience. Typically, Cabela’s has had significant ancillary development locate in their vicinity. Visit www.Cabelas.com for store and product line
information.

Water Park

Sun Island Resort and Conference Center is a proposed development on 22 acres to be constructed just south of the Beverly exit off I-90. The planned structure will be almost a half million square feet, over 100,000 of which will be indoor/outdoor water park. Some 450 rooms will accommodate over a thousand people per day. A small conference center will cater to area businesses seeking meeting and conference space.

Prairie Creek

The proposed Prairie Creek Amphitheater is a new outdoor facility (seating 9,000) and will be located within the Prairie Stone Development in Hoffman Estates, within view of the site of one of the country’s most successful amphitheaters, Poplar Creek, which closed in 1995. What makes Prairie Creek different is that its capacity will be approximately one-third the size of Poplar Creek, but it will share the same positive memories which are imprinted in many people’s minds.

The current plans were designed to create an environment that accomplishes six basic goals: (1) desirable location of the venue; (2) ample and easy ingress and egress to parking; (3) good sound and viewing sightlines; (4) abundant space to congregate within the venue; (5) a varied selection of good food and beverage; and (6) no waiting in long lines for concessions and washrooms.

Restaurants and Fun

Seven to eight restaurants plus other forms of entertainment retail are proposed for parcels between the Sears Centre and Cabela’s. These food services will be just east of Pratum Boulevard and south of Prairie Stone Parkway. Efforts are ongoing to recruit restaurant venues ranging from a brew-pub to a steak house to ethnic choices.

Poplar Creek Crossing:

Poplar Creek Crossing is a 42-acre, 400,000 square-foot power center located at the southwest corner of Routes 59 and 72, just north of I-90.

The new shopping center is anchored by a 124,000 square foot Target store and joined by other national retailers, including T. J. Maxx, Linens ‘n Things, Michaels Crafts, Cost Plus World Market, OfficeMax, PetSmart, Kirkland’s and others.

The building features blended use of face brick, Prairie Stone and synthetic plaster accents along with ornamental steel canopies. Unique, stepped store front facades were built to give each tenant a unique space. The site includes seven outlots, five additional building pads for future development, more than 600 trees planted on multiple parking lot islands, two keystone retention ponds and nearly 2000 parking spaces.