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New Niles Police Garage Planned After Old Touhy PW Facility Demolished


Back hoes and other heavy construction equipment sits on a cleared lot where the old Niles Public Works Garage once stood. Just west of the site sits the Niles Community Rain Garden, undisturbed.

The former Niles Public Works Garage at 7104 W. Touhy Ave. that stabilized a parking lot for police was razed earlier this month. A new parking deck planned for in the fiscal year 2019 draft budget will be built in a different location.

The new, one-story, 32-car garage is planned for construction just west of the police building between Touhy and Milwaukee avenues, west of the police driveway entrance and digital police department sign off Milwaukee, Niles Police Chief Luis Tigera said. Village officials said the earliest the project would see construction bids is early 2019.    

The former public works garage was demolished over the last month to make way for a proposed 72-unit senior affordable housing development by the Alden Foundation, which responded to a village request for proposals for senior affordable housing at the site.

Alden officials submitted a planned unit development proposal to Niles plan commissioners in February. If approved, the project could break ground by next year and open in 2020, Alden officials said.

Although the public works garage was leveled, the adjacent Niles Community Rain Garden was not. Given development at the site, officials said, the rain garden’s future remains uncertain.

The old Niles Public Works Garage on Touhy Avenue several months ago before demolition.

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