SUN CITY – Back in the early days of Sun City, Del Webb set up a customer service center on Farm Hill Road on the eastern edge of the community.
Del Webb rented the facility to serve as an administr
The old customer service building on Farm
Hill Road is currently in receivership with its
future to be decided by its owner and a bank.
(Chris LaPelusa/Sun Day Photo)
ative center for maintenance of common areas and individual properties, and administer warranties on homes and buildings. It also was a clearing house for construction activities during the time when Sun City was building homes and creating neighborhoods at a rapid rate.
In 2004, these activities were moved elsewhere and the building was vacated and has remained so for almost a decade. Today, this property, located immediately behind several homes on Cold Springs Road, is in receivership while the owner and a bank sort out its future. It probably will be a while yet before its owner completes the receivership process or sells the property for redevelopment, according to a source involved in the process.
Receivership is a legal process in which a court takes control of a property and appoints a receiver to administer it until all parties involved agree on a course of action for the property’s disposition.
The receiver in this process is Martha Winter of LM Commercial Real Estate, located in DuPage County.
“I’m a liaison between the bank and owner,” she said.
LM is one of two such firms currently marketing all the vacant property located along and near Farm Hill and Regency Square Roads for lease or sale. A medical office building, a village fire station, and Heritage Assisted Living are already located in this area, and a facility for physically disabled adults rehabbing from accidents or military service wounds is in the final stages of construction.
Winter said the law does not allow her to discuss details of the receivership matter publicly, but she did say that eventually she hopes the former customer service facility will be revitalized in the same way as other nearby facilities.
“I envision the possibility of it becoming a senior medical facility, a senior care facility, or as an office building for a financial, real estate, or legal group,” she said.
When Del Webb first came to Huntley in the late 1990s, it envisioned areas next to Sun City like this one would be developed for retail sales, office, municipal, or institutional uses. The Provena medical building, Heartland Bank (formerly Citizens Bank), the small strip centers along Princeton Drive, the fire station, and Heritage Woods are examples of this.
