Thursday, January 17, 2013
Geneva mayor says his municipality’s monicker will be in bank’s new name.
St. Charles Bank & Trust, which is remodeling a historic Geneva building into a drive-through facility to serve it’s new home right next door will change its name to reflect its change of location. The a Geneva Historic Preservation Commission on Tuesday supported an application to list the city’s Pure Oil Building on the National Register of Historic Places. The bays of the former service station building are being converted into drive-through lanes for the bank that is moving in next door, 514 W. State St., Geneva. Until Tuesday, it was unclear which bank might be moving in, but Geneva Mayor Kevin Burns, who was in the audience for the meeting, confirmed that the new property owner is St. Charles Bank & Trust — which he said soon will be…
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
The Geneva City Council votes 8-2 against a motion that would have allowed demolition of the iconic Pure Oil gas station building at 502 West State St.
After more than three-and-a-half hours of passionate testimony, parliamentary confusion, light outages, fables, facts and catcalls, the Geneva City Council came to the same conclusion it did a week ago as a Committee of the Whole: The Pure Oil Building will stand. The City Council voted 8-2 Monday, April 2, against a motion that—in essence—would have allowed a demolition permit for the historic, blue-roofed gas station building constructed in 1937. City Hall was filled to standing-room-only capacity as residents on both sides of the issue addressed developer Joe Stanton's argument that the building is not economically viable in its present form or as an adapted re-use. The public commentary ranged from the emotional to hard facts and …
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Property owner's appeal denied amid strong opposition to plan that included demolition of historic building.
Upholding Geneva's historic integrity still outweighs the financial issues faced by the owner of the Pure Oil property on State Street. The City Council's Committee of the Whole sent that message Monday night when it upheld the Historic Presentation Commission's February decision to deny developer Joe Stanton's plan for the land at 502 W. State. The committee, after more than three hours of testimony and debate, voted 7-3 to back the HPC decision, with aldermen Sam Hill, Richard Marks and Dawn Vogelsberg unsuccessfully voting to move the appeal to the City Council. Stanton has proposed a move to put a bank drive-through on the property and, in doing so, tearing down the Pure Oil Building. The HPC shot down the idea in a 5-1 vote, …
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Building owner Joe Stanton says the plan to build a bank drive-through and tear down the old Pure Oil building is still on hold.
Geneva property owner and developer Joe Stanton said Monday that the plans for a bank drive-through on the site of the historic Pure Oil gas station building are still on hold. "No status right now," Stanton said after the Geneva City Council meeting Monday. Asked if he might take the proposal to the City Council following the Historic Preservation Commission's Feb. 21 denial of a demolition permit, Stanton said, "It's still being discussed, so it's still up in the air." "It's up to the bank," he added. "It depends on if they want to go forward with it." Plans presented to the commission sought the demolition of the former gas station in order to provide a drive-through for St. Charles Bank & Trust, as well as additional city parking on …
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Katherine Filkins
12:01 pm on Saturday, November 17, 2012
I like Bob's idea. more ›