October 13, 2023 In the age of social media, a picture is no longer just worth a thousand words it’s a passport to likes and shares. With this in mind,
Credit: Crescent Communities
A rendering of the new community at the old White Fence Farm location in Lakewood.
The community will consist of three- and four-story, elevator-served buildings with studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms, as well as the adaptive reuse of a 12,500 square foot Americana barn for the clubhouse.
Amenities include the clubhouse, a spacious fitness center with a dedicated yoga room, secure resident storage and bike storage, flexible work from home spaces, a pet spa, dog park and resort-style pool.
Construction begins this month with the first residential units becoming available in early 2023, according to Crescent Communities.
White Fence Farm opened in July 1973 after it was converted from a working hay and cattle farm into a restaurant. Its specialty was a family-style farm chicken dinner featuring fried chicken and unlimited appetizers of bean salad, pickled beets, corn fritters and coleslaw.
UpdatedThu, Apr 22, 2021 at 6:49 pm CT
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White Fence Farm has been an institution in Will County since for 67 years but has fallen on hard times like other restaurants. (Patch file photo )
ROMEOVILLE, IL For more than a year, Laura Hastert kept the doors of her family s White Fence Farm restaurant closed, struggling like every other restaurateur with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The third-generation owner of the Will County institution that has been open on Route 66 since 1954 did so while other restaurants were reopening, knowing that she was better off safe than sorry. Although the business had found a way to keep its head above water thanks to its four takeout locations that kept producing White Fence Farm s famed fried chicken and corn fritters as the pandemic continued Hastert estimates the business lost about $2.4 million over the past 12 months.