The City Council is dark on Monday as the city continues to reel from the untimely death of District 3 City Councilman John J. Kennedy.
The City Council has two public hearings scheduled on Aug. 15.
An application to designate the I. Magnin & Co. Building, located at 475 South Lake Avenue, as a landmark.
The vacant building was the subject of complaints for several years after Barnes & Noble pulled out and left it empty. In 2021, organic grocery story Erewhon purchased the former department store, which previously housed Borders Books until the chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011.
I. Magnin & Company was a high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store.
The City Council will also hold a public hearing on the proposed vacation of Nina Street from Sunnyslope Avenue to the East end of the street. It was previously approved by a city committee.
The recommendation was made by the Department of Public Works to vacate a segment of Nina Street, starting from the intersection of Sunnyslope Avenue to Nina Street’s eastern terminus, in order to accommodate a request by automobile company Rusnak Porsche to develop its property and construct new automobile sales, leasing, services and parts buildings with a paved parking lot.
A street “vacation” means that the public is letting go of, or “vacating,” the public interest in a property. After a street or an alley is vacated, the public no longer has a right to use the property for access.
Rusnak Daimler Chrysler Center Inc., owns all abutting properties along both sides of the street segment, and is the developer for the proposed development.
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