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Mohr concrete sold; apartments, hotel planned A daycare, multifamily residential complex and possibly more By STACEY SHERIDAN Staff Reporter
The Memorial Day shootout Police from Oak Park and Berwyn plan to prevent recurrence REPORT BY STACEY SHERIDAN, PAGE 9 ALEX ROGALS/Staff Photographer
Hinsdale-based real estate company KrohVan has purchased the H.J. Mohr & Sons Co. concrete site with the intention of developing the land as multifamily residential complex of perhaps five stories. A hotel is also being considered for a portion of the site. A national daycare chain is already approved for construction on an additional parcel on Garfield Street. The Mohr property includes two parcels of land, the larger of which is the 3.29-acre plot at the corner of Harlem Avenue and Garfield Street where the former concrete plant sits. KrohVan purchased that site, as well as a smaller parcel on Garfield Street, which was previously used by Mohr to store concrete trucks. H.J. Mohr & Sons Co. was one of the state’s oldest businesses, even predating Oak Park’s incorporation in 1902 by nine years. The company’s founder, Henry J. Mohr, served as the first mayor of Forest Park. Originally a coal and building materials supplier, Mohr & Sons transitioned into an industrial concrete manufacturing See MOHR CONCRETE on page 14