PHOTOS: Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
Cleanup work has begun on the site of the Tinley Park Mental Health Center. The state sold the 280-acre parcel to the Tinley Park-Park District last year and provided $15 million for cleanup. Plans for the property include a 90-acre recreation center.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
The Tinley Park Mental Health Center property is being cleaned up to make way for redevelopment.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
A look inside a fuel tank on the property of the Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
Environmental cleanup at the Tinley Park Mental Health Center property started in the fall.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
All of the buildings at the Tinley Park Mental Health Center property will be demolished to make way for new development, including a sports facility.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
The water tower also will be demolished.Â
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
Tinley Park-Park District Board Commissioner Lisa O’Donovan speaks to the media Feb. 26 about immediate plans for the abandoned mental health center.
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
State Sen. Michael Hastings helped bring state dollars to the project at 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue.Â
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
The timetable for demolishing abandoned buildings at the site will be determined as cleanup is complete.Â
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
Graffiti from trespassers marks up the property that has not been used for 10 years.Â
Transformation begins at Tinley Mental Health Center site
A worker tends to an underground fuel tank, three of which were removed from the site.Â
A very warm and sunny February day greeted those assembled at the Tinley Park Mental Health Center property. Officials took that as a good sign.
Now that the state has agreed to sell the Tinley Park Mental Health Center site to the Tinley Park-Park District for $1, what’s next? First comes the cleanup.
Eighteen days after finding out they were going to get the Mental Health Center land for $1, officials from the Tinley Park-Park District took a victory lap.
Tinley Park and officials of its park district have disagreed about the land once occupied by the Mental Health Center. But working together may be the ticket to redevelopment of the 280-acre parcel.
A bill on the desk of Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker would sell 90 acres of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center to the village's park district for $1 for a sports complex.
Tinley Park keeps pressure on Illinois to sell it the derelict 300-acre site of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center.Â
