Business View Magazine | January 2020

314 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JANUARY 2020 years ago. We’ve been able to rejuvenate that land and it’s going to be turned into commercial and light industrial.” In addition, Lemont’s residents recently approved a one percent sales tax to help support infrastructure improvements and road construction throughout the Village. Today, Lemont’s population hovers around 17,000, and according to Berry, it has been growing mostly through single-family, residential construction. “We have about a hundred new homes a year, and we have around 300 homes entitled, so we always make sure we have a pipeline of development ready to go. We have some fantastic local builders, and some national builders, as well. A couple of years back, Chicago Magazine described Lemont as ‘a mecca for Millennials.’ We see a lot of folks, who have grown up in the area, head to Chicago’s hip neighborhoods, and then, once they start to have kids, they come back to Lemont. We have two blue-ribbon schools in town: St. Cyril’s & Methodius, and Lemont High School. So we are Front Street Lemont Housing