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Twenty-seven years after the Die Cast factory was demolished, 10 townhomes remain the only development on the 10-acre site. The green space around the townhouses is going to stay green for a while longer. Two years after the city chose Chicago Hubs Realty to develop a mix of senior housing, retail space, and a parking garage on the vacant land, the developer told the city it could not obtain financing for the project. Independent Photo by Andrew Rousey

By Larry Loughlarry@the woodstockindependent.com Development of the former Die Cast factory site will start over after Chicago Hubs Realty informed the city it could not obtain financing for its ambitious […]

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Larry Lough is editor of The Independent and reports local news. He has worked for community newspapers in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa for the past five decades, and was a college journalism instructor for 17 years.

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