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Possibilities for Former PEO Home Lot in Knoxville
The Knoxville City Council has received some feedback that proposes plans for the former PEO Home site.

The property in Knoxville on East Main Street is essentially used as a park. The city council previously asked the public for proposals. There's been no consensus on what to do with the site that was torn down in 2002.

Kirk Heller, who filled for Mayor Terry Pool at Monday night's meeting, says the city council plans to consider the proposals sometime later this month.

"We've received three proposals, and just information tonight," Heller said. "We're going to pass them out, have you guys take them home and look at them."

Heller recommended the proposals first be taken up by the economic development committee, then the city council. No date was set.

Aaron Skinner, Alanson Jared Charles and Johnson Building Systems of Galesburg submitted the three proposals.

Skinner proposed a 50-unit, five or six story senior citizen apartment building. Johnson Building Systems' plan is for what the firm described as affordable housing for the 55 and up age group. Charles called for a five-story, mixed-use building that would also include apartments.

The city council in other business unanimously approved the sanitation ordinance. Along with Pool, City Clerk Pam Eagle and Treasurer Jim Whitney were also absent from the meeting.
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