The Skokie Village Board approved the 14-story Carvana used car vending machine glass tower next to a forest preserve despite opposition.
A last-ditch effort by bird lovers and others to stop construction of a 14-story Carvana glass tower next to Skokie’s Harms Woods forest preserve failed to take flight Monday night after the Skokie Village Board voted 6 to 1 to give the company the zoning relief it had been seeking.
Many residents said they fear the 14-floor glass curtain wall of the Carvana tower, planned for the 9800 block of Woods Drive next to the forest preserve and near the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, will be a “killing machine” for birds that fly into it. However, Mayor George Van Dusen noted the village is requiring mitigations to prevent such bird strikes.
“And that it is a vending machine for cars, which is about as tasteless a thing as you can imagine, just makes it that much worse,” she said. “As for Carvana, this is a slimy company from start to finish. They are mired in lawsuits all over the country.” Indeed, Carvana has over the last few months made changes to its plan to address concerns by altering the route trucks will take coming to and from the building, reducing delivery hours and agreeing to treat the glass exterior with decals to reduce bird strikes and to dim lighting at the site.
Skokie resident Jay Parker urged residents to remember the board vote during the next municipal election.
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