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| A Top Local Story Can be Summed Up in One Word |
We begin our look Tuesday at the top stories of 2011 with an event -- rather, a series of events -- that can be summed up in one word.
Progress.
Whether residents like them or not, building and improving has gone on in a number of ways in 2011 -- to say nothing of the first of three rail crossing grade separations being built.
One, with much controversy, is the student housing about to be constructed for students at Carl Sandburg College. Following hours of debate in front of both the City Council and the Galesburg Planning and Zoning Commission, ground was broken a few months ago on what's being called "The Villas at C-S-C."
College president Lori Sundberg said at a groundbreaking in October that the project is one that the community needed.
"This ground breaking is happening because our community worked together for a common cause," Sundberg said. "And that cause was to support the college, our students, but also to support our community."
"Today is a great day for Galesburg."
But some residents who live in the area of the former Regency Hotel don't like it one bit, like Chuck Frick, speaking back in August.
"We have a declining population, incomes in this area are horrible," Frick said.
"Does this just benefit a few people? I don't think it benefits Galesburg to any great degree."
The apartments, being built by a firm who deals solely with such facilities and says they will never become federally-subsidized housing like some continue to fear, are expected to be open by the fall semester. |
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