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A good start on a long project Five things you need to know about St. Charles' First Street redevelopment.

Publication: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Publication Date: 29-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: A good start on a long project Five things you need to know about St. Charles' First Street redevelopment.(News)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Josh Stockinger

jstockinger@@dailyherald.com

In downtown St. Charles, it's best to keep your eyes peeled these days or you just might miss it.

A parking deck going up here. A new grocery and bank over there. Six blocks of sparkling storefronts and condos.

"It still blows my mind," Mayor Don DeWitte said during a June 5 tour of the First Street redevelopment project. "Fourteen, 15, 16 months ago, none of this was here."

Welcome to the new downtown St. Charles, a $105 million work-in- progress.

Over the past two years, contractors have torn up and rebuilt streets, sewers and sidewalks. They've constructed five stories of parking and offices, and built a new bank and supermarket.

The list goes on.

But city officials say there's much more to come between now and 2012, when a revitalized First Street is expected to be fully open for business.

Here are five things you need to...

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