By Benjamin Cox on January 30, 2021 at 8:41am
A vacant manufacturing complex is getting some use for the next year. The Journal Courier reports that Apex Clean Energy has leased the former AC-Humko property on the east end of Jacksonville from Hayes Properties to be used as a lay down yard for the Lincoln Land Wind Project.
The grounds will hold equipment and materials and will also be an employee and engineer gathering site while each of the turbine sites are developed. Work on the 38,000-acre project began in December after final permits were approved and issued by the Morgan County Commissioners. According to the Journal Courier, excavation at several of the sites have already begun, with the project’s construction expected to be completed by October. Apex then will continue through the remainder of the year taking care of soil decompaction and reclamation efforts, including road maintenance.
Apartments, events hall projects could breathe new life into former MacMurray campus
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The Jacksonville Plan Commission is being asked to approve a zone change that would allow Annie Merner Chapel on the campus of the shuttered MacMurray College to be used as a special events hall.Journal-Courier
Part of the shuttered MacMurray College could see new life through separate projects to bring an events facility and multi-family housing to the former campus.
The college closed in May. Property at the 174-year-old institution was auctioned Nov. 12 after being divided into 18 tracts. The auction brought in about $1.35 million.
Jacksonville businessman Mike Hayes, owner of Hayes Properties, was the top bidder for a tract that included one of MacMurray’s best-known buildings, Annie Merner Chapel, and the neighboring McClelland Dining Hall.