By Anne Trautner
Assistant Editor
The small, triangular piece of land located on the corner of Highway 14 and Madison Street in Walworth may become home to a restaurant business.
George Kasnick hopes to purchase the property from the village and sell ice cream and either deli sub sandwiches or Chicago-style hotdogs and fries there. His plan is to landscape the area, enclose it with a fence, install lighting and set up outdoor seating. Patrons would enter the area through French doors and could sit at bistro-type tables, Kasnick said.
“It’s going to look nice,” said Kasnick, who just bought a large restaurant in Chicago.
The land, which measures 56 by 40 by 38 feet, or about 1,000 square feet, is currently covered with grass. The area has been notorious in the past for being difficult to maintain, Village Board President David Rasmussen said.
“If we purchase it, that is going to be made into a nice area with landscaping and everything else,” Kasnick said. “Right now, I got a garbage can full of garbage out of that thing. It is just lying garbage , that’s all it was, all over the property.”
Village trustees discussed the benefits of renting versus selling the land parcel at their meeting Monday night, but Kasnick said he was not interested in leasing the property.
The village board requested that Kasnick make an offer in writing before Monday, when the board will hold a closed session to determine the property’s fate.
“It sounds like it would be a real attractive entrance to the village,” Rasmussen said.
