"When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail." To enhance Cedar Lane, we must see: what we lack, what would compliment the existing mix of businesses; what other similar sized commercial areas are doing. We already have excellent restaurants, two optomitrists, women's clothing stores, a shoe store, even a UPS store and banks. We don't have a children's store (toys and clothes). Anybody remember the old Army and Navy stores for outerwear and work clothes?
Cedar Lane needs a winner. Also, neighbors have to commit to "Trying Cedar Lane First" when they have to dine out or need something else.
I say again that Cedar Lane needs to replace its old faded parking lot signs. New customers are probably intimidated by: the frequent sirens, the rampant double parking, the jaywalkers, and the difficulty of finding off street parking. Try shopping at an unfamiliar shopping area to see what first-timers at Cedar Lane experience. New signs say "Welcome shopper. Right this way to safely, easily park your car."
About Walgreens, its better than a Walmart.

Boycott Walgreens: Given a 46 million dollar tax break to create jobs in Illinois. Instead they outsource their network dept to India putting over 200 high paid IT/Network engineers out of work. Illinois needs to take back the tax break and consumers need to take some responsibility and boycott this company into the ground as they have done with Illinois tax payers!

The Township should exercise it's right to demand a that the proposed building enhance the streetscape and further the already stated planning goals of making Cedar Lane a pedestrian-oriented environment.

The building setback with a parking lot "shielding" the store from the pedestrians of Cedar Lane is a letdown and can be fixed quickly and cheaply by designing the parking in the rear of the store.

There was already a Walgreens on cedar lane that closed... There are two CVS stores on Cedar Lane... Developing a Walgreens there will be a waste.

IF they put a Walgreen's there they will surely put J & J pharmacy out of business. Then we will have another store empty. The whole idea is to put more businesses on Cedar Lane not to take away another. I know that Larry's Sunocco have a right to sell to whomever that want, but I hope they do not sell to Walgreen's and hold out to sell to something better than a store that will surely put a small business out of business. As a small business owner, the brothers should know how hard it is and not want to put another business owner out.