SKOKIE, IL — Following a contentious board meeting Monday, Skokie village trustees approved a plan to build a 137-foot illuminated glass tower of used cars beside a forest preserve.
The plan for the 14-story Carvana “vending machine” drew organized opposition from environmentalists and representatives of the roughly 3 percent of the village population who live at the adjacent Optima Old Orchard Woods.
Bret Sassenberg, senior director of real estate and development for the publicly traded Tempe, Arizona-based online used car dealer, said the company currently has 30 towers across the company, which it fills with cars that have already been purchased while they await pickup. Car buyers get a customized coin upon arrival that they can insert and watch their car descend.
“We wanted those cars in a protected building, we wanted those cars stacked in an automated system so we didn’t use a lot of manpower to deal with that, and so the coin, the slot was created,” Sassenberg said. “We essentially took an automated car system and called it a vending machine and made for a fun experience which lots of people have enjoyed over the years.”
The site that Carvana chose for its just-approved tower — due to be its third in the Chicago area after Oak Brook and Schaumburg — led to a kind of opposition Sassenberg said the company had never faced before: bird strike reduction advocates.
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As the proposal was amended, company representatives agreed to use specially marked glass aimed at deterring bird strikes and to turn off most of its lights during migratory bird seasons.
But the bird advocates continued to move the goalposts, Carvana’s senior director told trustees Monday. He said the company’s proposal for mitigating the risk of bird strikes would put the village somewhere between the standards imposed by San Francisco and New York.
“Not the city of Chicago, where there are tall buildings, dense buildings —and quite frankly where a lot of these folks are finding dead birds — but Skokie would be a suburban market with a very strict standard,” he said.
“So we are volunteering to do that even though we don’t think you need it, we really don’t. And there’s no evidence to suggest that Harms Woods is the epicenter of bird strike. I think you would have found that out at the Optima Tower years ago if it was. But this is what we’re willing to do,” Sassenberg continued.
“We believe that this should be an adequate approach to bird strike concerns for any development in Skokie, whether it’s along the woods or somewhere else in the suburban market, we just don’t know what more we can do,” he said. “We believe we’ve tried to appease as many folks as possible about the issue, without guidance, without guidelines, without code or zoning.”
George Kisiel, Carvana’s planning consultant on the project, pointed out that current Office Research, or OR, zoning district would allow for 200 residential units to be built on the site, a much more intensive use than was being proposed.
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“The OR district, as you can seen on the map, is limited to the Old Orchard Edens Expressway interchange and it’s designed for high-intensity, expressway-oriented development,” Kisiel said. “Needless to say, Carvana is expressway-oriented development, but it’s extremely low intensity compared to what could be on the site.”
