DuPage Theater

A quick phone call has just determined there is NO investigation currently involving Jim Devitt, or any residence on Charlotte…

He made sexually innapropriate posts about a young lady in my neighborhood. He also sent her e-mails disguising himself as someone from the side that was opposed to the 86 condominium unit the Friends tried to build in our historic district.

He has harassed her in e-mails and postings on this site. The police have been investigating him as a suspect in a case of vandalism on our block. He drives a blue pick-up truck with a red number 8 on the rear window. His name is Jim Devitt. He lives at 3130 Woodridge drive in Woodridge. My husband has been working with the police.

More sexually harassing e-mails were sent to the young girl last week. He really needs help. I was a nurse for 32 years and I know what sick people are capable of.

I hope that was enough information for you

Hey Anne could you please tell me what this Jim whatever person has done to you to have you exibit such malicious hatred? I have not seen where he has personally attached you or such, so why do it? It just makes you look petty and immature. We are on this site to talk about restoration, not to attack each other. If a person wants to post h/h opinion, that is their right…

How ya doin' there, DuperSupporter? Besides the spelling errors just for ANN PUZAN, what do ya think? Did I hit the nail on the head? BAM!!!

What’s ironic here is that if you compare 2 development projects, both “for the good of Lombard”, one is given roadblocks from the start, and the list is ver long. It includes;
1. Ad-Hoc Committee Chairman who is publically AGAINST the project.
2. Requests for Proposals to developers DID NOT require re-use
of the theatre.
3. Requirements for developer(s) changed several times.
4. ONLY 10% of promised Village funding ever went to Freonds of the
DuPage Theatre.
5. Vital information about the project was leaked to anti-theatre group.
6. Trustee for area goes door-to-door in neighborhood behind theatre
looking for support. He had NEVER previously visited neighborhoods.
a.Organizer of anti-theatre group, Bob Defino, was given a position
on one of Trustees Committees.
7. Anti-theatre group illegally posted propaganda flyers in mailboxes of
Lombard resident’s to scare them into supporting project.
8. Anti-theatre group “invented” people to be against the project.
9. Village Board voted to reject State and Federal funding for project.
They had originally stated the money would never come, but just a
few weeks before it was released, they suddenly voted, after stating
previously there was no need to do so.
10.Village President had opportunity to veto Trustees vote, but did not.
11.Village voted to demolish ONE DAY after their own committees
publically stated that plan was balanced with NO defecit.
12.It is widely believed the Trustee of the district is posting
on this and other web sites under various pseudonyms.

Now let’s look at another development in Lombard…
1. Village lobbies State to change law to allow Lombard to even
construct project.
2. Lombard creates a PFC (Public Facilities Corp) to retain ownership of
project since it is illegal for Village to do so. This was done
to circumvent the normally required referendum to get approval
to do such a costly, unnecessary project.
a. The group’s names are kept from the public as long as possible
b. None of them have any experience in development and managment
of large scale construction projets.
c. Their meetings are held during the day, resulting in no public
attendance and/or comment. The dates and times often change.
d. The committee is also hand-picked by the Village President.
3. The name of the developer changes several times in the early stages
of the project.
4. Despite it’s extremely high cost, the taxpaying public of Lombard
is not allowed to vote on whether ot not it is wanted.
5. The “not to exceed” amount of the project has increased from 120
to nearly 200 million, with estimates by completion to be closer to
235 million dollars, a 51% INCREASE OVER INITIAL ESTIMATES.
6. No funding has been set aside for infrastructure improvements in
area OUTSIDE the mall.
7. ALL tax dollars from project are to be REBATED to the developer for
repayment of bonds.
a.If there is insufficent dollars in tax revenues to pay back
bonds,monies can be taken from the GENERAL FUND to pay them.
8. A great deal of activities for Lomabrdians comes from hotel/motel
tax revenue. With said dollars going towards debt repayment, many
Village activities, such as Lilac Parade, Taste of Lombard, etc.
may be forced to be CANCELLED.
9. No stipulations have been placed upon builder, developer or PFC to
require a percentage of all labor be from Lombard.
10.There has been an extensive list of variations asked for and approved
by the Village Board.
11.Issues regarding parking have never been resolved by the Village.
12.No plan has been presented to expand the police and fire staff to
handle the increased demands that will be placed upon them due to
increased criminal activity in new area (muggings, prostitution,
robberies, assualts, medical emergencies, etc.)
13.The only feasibility study was conducted by the developer itself. No
independant group was brought in to do so.
14.The Brooking Institute has issued a report detailing the decline
in usage of facilities the size of Lombard’s.
15.Hotel usage MUST be AT LEAST 70% at all times in order for any revenue
to pay back the 161 million in bond debt the Village will be saddled
with for somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 years.
16.Lombard itself will now be in direct competition with long-standing
businesses in the area (restaurants, hotels, etc.).

How’s that for Village support folks? Seems like the scales are rather tipped, doesn’t it? Basically, the strategy was two-fold. 1.Keep the theatre in the forefront to move attention away from huge soaring costs on other project. 2. Make sure that theatre project never happens to allow for redevelopment of property for “other” uses…

Does anyone work in Lombard LOL. If you folks used all this energy to raise funds you could have have all the money the theatre needs.

What RSC plan are we talking about? Is there another one out there? because the last one resulted is a vote for demolition. That plan was from March and it’s almost November.

Quit talking as if that plan was approved, which it was NOT. Time to move on.

RSC donation of $100,000 in lieu of “rental income” from the shoppes, in lieu of giving RSC the “ownership” of the upper floors and air rights to squeeze more condos into the so called historically significant building, in lieu of all kinds of things that favor RSC in the long run. Give RSC the $1 million in TIF and let them have the whole complex…even give ‘em the south lot for free..if they along with your so called experts can make a go of it with private equity! Problem is they can’t because without taxpayer intervention the plan simply blows. Key word that.

What’s not “taxpayer intervention” with this RSC plan?

Better yet why don’t you tell us how much money in private donations you have left?

How much from duper? Meldres? RobertR? and the rest of the arm-chair preservationists.

Only $4 million in TIF? Really, was that plan A or B or C or D? Try more like $6 million in TIF plus the carrying cost that made the bonds more like $8 million (if not more). Oh, and don’t forget the million from the sale of the village owned south parcel. The question should be more like what’s not “taxpayer intervention” with this RSC plan?

What “taxpayer intervention”? Key word …. “what”

Lynch,ct1.Lets make one thing perfectly clear. The RSC proposal that was on the table would require only a $4 million TIF bond.AND that TIF bond wouldn’t be needed until year 2007.The facts are this.RSC would donate $100,000 per year for 10 years to the theatre portion.That is SIGNIFICENT PRIVATE DOLLARS.
BTW.The village of Lombard financial staff along with RSC and the Foundation ammended the development plan so there was NO shortfall in the financing.The RSC development was a fully funded plan.The village of Lombard agreed.
BTW. You don’t answer why you don’t protest the constant use of TIF by the village.You don’t answer why you don’t protest the use of GRANT money by the viillage.
Do us all a favor.Put another dollar in your record machine.
Everybody on this website is tired of your “OLD SONG” and “DANCE”