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0 Business Comise's Sports Bar and Grill will have pool tables, dartboards, video gambling, and plenty of TVs to catch a game. Lauren Traut , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Reply NEW LENOX, IL — The owner of a Frankfort bar and restaurant is ready to put what he's learned there to use in a new space, as he tackles a complete makeover of a former microbrewery space in a New Lenox strip mall. Mike Comise, who has owned Pete Mitchell's Bar and Grill for nearly a decade, soon plans to debut his own Comise's Sports Bar and Grill in the space formerly occupied by Hickory Creek Brewing, 1005 W. Laraway Rd. in New Lenox. But first, he's overhauling the interior to make it his own. The space has been demoed, with plans including epoxied floors, a large bar that seats 60, pool tables, dartboards, video gambling—and the biggest draw, Comise said—more than a dozen 65-inch TVs. Seventeen of them, to be exact. "It’ll be a … [Read more...] about Frankfort Biz Owner Readying New Lenox Spot ‘Comise’s’ For Opening

19 Business One year after World Vape & Tobacco Wholesale opened in the West Jefferson Street plaza, the entire Joliet commercial property is vacant. John Ferak , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies JOLIET, IL — In 2017, Mayor Bob O'Dekirk and the Joliet City Council rejected a proposal to open a 12,000-square-foot liquor store called the Joliet Market inside the commercial strip mall at 2155 West Jefferson St. Nowadays, the entire strip mall is empty. There is not one viable business operating inside the strip mall, which is next to the dilapidated former Baker's Square that closed in 2019 and the large pile of rubble where Senor Tequila's once stood. Last September, Joliet Patch reported that a business called World Vape & Tobacco Wholesale opened in the corner storefront at 2157 West Jefferson St. Window displays advertised cigar accessories, CBD White Owl, glass pipe hookahs and Swisher Sweets cigars . … [Read more...] about Jefferson Street Strip Mall Becomes Empty

22 Business The Crabigale's Comedy Club has been empty for at least 15 years in downtown Joliet, and John Bays plans to buy it from Joliet now. John Ferak , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies JOLIET, IL — Now that John Bays has finished redeveloping the Two Rialto Square Building, Joliet's most successful commercial real estate investor said he plans to turn his attention to another downtown property that has fallen on hard times in recent years. Last week, Bays told Joliet Patch's editor about his plans to purchase the Crabigale's Comedy Club building at the busy downtown intersection of Cass and North Chicago streets. The city of Joliet now owns the property; despite showing the building to a number of prospective buyers in recent years, nothing ever materialized. With downtown Joliet in the midst of its most successful renaissance in decades, Bays believes the old Crabigale's property can become his next major … [Read more...] about John Bays To Buy Crabigale’s From Joliet, Here’s What He’ll Do

79 Business The Bakers Square pie restaurant went out of business, and it's been vacant ever since. But a marijuana dispensary is now planned in Joliet. John Ferak , Patch Staff Posted | Updated Replies JOLIET, IL — One of the first noteworthy economic development projects put forth by Joliet's new economic development director Cesar Suarez is a proposed marijuana dispensary at the vacant Bakers Square restaurant, 2211 West Jefferson St. On Tuesday, Joliet Patch spotted a large sign erected on the former Bakers Square property. According to the sign, there will be a public meeting at 2 p.m. July 21 inside Joliet's City Hall to discuss a special use permit for "an adult-use marijuana dispensary." Joliet's zoning board is supposed to hold its next meeting at 2 p.m. on July, which is a Monday, according to the city's website. People seeking more information about the new marijuana business planned for West … [Read more...] about Joliet Marijuana Shop Planned For Vacant Bakers Square

HOUSTON — During his presidential campaign, Donald J. Trump repeatedly hailed the Keystone XL pipeline as a vital jobs program and one that sharply contrasted his vision for the economy with that of Hillary Clinton. “Today we begin to make things right,” President Trump said Friday morning shortly after the State Department granted the pipeline giant TransCanada a permit for Keystone construction, a reversal of Obama administration policy. The pipeline would link oil producers in Canada and North Dakota with refiners and export terminals on the Gulf Coast. It has long been an object of contention, with environmentalists saying it would contribute to climate change and the project’s proponents — Republicans, some labor unions and the oil industry — contending that it would help guarantee national energy security for decades to come. When President Barack Obama rejected the project in late 2015, he said it would undermine American leadership in curbing reliance on carbon fuels. … [Read more...] about U.S., in Reversal, Issues Permit for Keystone Oil Pipeline

WASHINGTON — The State Department gave a crucial green light on Friday to a proposed 1,711-mile pipeline that would carry heavy oil from oil sands in Canada across the Great Plains to terminals in Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast. The project, which would be the longest oil pipeline outside of Russia and China, has become a potent symbol in a growing fight that pits energy security against environmental risk, a struggle highlighted by last year’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. By concluding that the $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline would have minimal effect on the environment, President Obama would risk alienating environmental activists, who gave him important support in the 2008 election and were already upset by his recent decisions to expand domestic oil drilling and delay clean air rules. Pipeline opponents have protested in front of the White House for a week, resulting in nearly 400 arrests. At the same time, rising concerns about the weak economy and high gas prices have made … [Read more...] about U.S. Offers Key Support to Canadian Pipeline