Tinley Park officials will consider plans next month for a retail shopping center that would include a grocery store, AutoNation car dealership and Gas N Wash gas station. The village needs to annex property now in unincorporated Will County for the project, which is partially on a site once considered by Lincoln-Way High School District 210 for a school, and had over the years been proposed as as site for retailers including Walmart and more recently a Woodman’s Food Market. Brookside Creek would be built southwest of Harlem Avenue and 191st Street, directly south of the Brookside Marketplace shopping center. It would be to the north and east of the Brookside Glen subdivision. A coffee shop with a drive-through window is planned along with a McDonald’s, according to the village. Items including site plan approval, special use permit and annexation will be considered by the Village Board at 6 p.m. Jan. 7 at Village Hall, 16250 S. Oak Park Ave. The overall site is more than 72 acres, and 55 acres on the west side that is in Will County would need to be annexed to Tinley Park. Gas N Wash would be on an outlot closest to 191st, according to plans submitted to the village. The Tinley Park Plan Commission recommended approval Dec. 5. A grocery store would anchor the development but hasn’t been identified, official said. Lots would be developed individually, and all seven developable lots are under contract to tenants including Gas N Wash and AutoNation. Gas N Wash has several locations in the Chicago area, including in Tinley Park and Mokena. In Tinley Park, it recently opened a location at the northeast corner of La Grange Road and 183rd Street, and also has stores at 7451 183rd St. and 19420 Harlem Ave. Gas N Wash also has a location in Mokena at the northwest corner of 191st and 88th Avenue. AutoNation, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sells both used and new vehicles. In October, it reported third-quarter revenue of $6.6 billion. The property owner, GSP Development, applied to annex to the village in July. Under the annexation agreement, Tinley Park would foot the bill to install a four-way intersection with stoplights at Market Place Drive, which is west of Harlem and east of 76th Avenue. The village would also pay for widening 191st to add turn lanes. The Brookside Creek development doesn’t include the hard corner of Harlem and 191st, which is owned by Webster Property Group. The property was zoned and approved in 2016 for a nearly 20,000-square-foot retail center, although plans never advanced. The property owner indicated the site is under contract with Quick Trip for a gas station and convenience store. In December 1996, Lincoln-Way acquired the parcel where Brookside Creek is planned for $2.9 million with plans to put Lincoln-Way North there. In early 2022, Tinley Park paid $1.5 million to District 210 for the property, which in the past had been eyed for large-scale commercial development. In a sale approved by Tinley Park’s Village Board in April 2022, GSP Development paid the village $1.7 million for the land where Brookside Creek is planned. An 2020 appraisal of the property for District 210, by Chicago-based Appraisal Associates, noted 23 of the 72 acres of the site are considered developable, and estimated the market value for the 72 acres at $1.55 million. The firm noted that the “future development potential of the site is negatively impacted by a pipeline easement, flood plan and stormwater requirements.” The firm also noted not all 23 acres that are considered developable are contiguous. In plans under review by Tinley Park, GSP has said that about 22 acres of the site will be built on. The retail development would be about 400 feet from the closest homes in Brookside Glen, and the company is proposing landscape buffers to screen buildings from the subdivision. The sale to GSP was the latest in a long line of transactions for the property, directly south of the Brookside Marketplace shopping center. District 210, in June 2017, approved a sale agreement with the Wisconsin-based retailer to sell the property for about $4.6 million, which planned a 240,000-square-foot store as well as ancillary uses such as a gas station and car wash. In May 2018, however, the company walked away from the purchase after determining the site couldn’t yield the developable property it needed. Anticipating a major boost in enrollment due to housing development, Lincoln-Way acquired the parcel for $2.9 million with plans to put Lincoln-Way North there. After residents objected to having a school on the busy commercial intersection, North was built at 199th and Harlem. The school was closed at the end of the 2015-16 school year.