Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Five years' of building inspection reports are fairly mundane--until the day before the roof collapsed on Jan. 19.
Village inspection reports obtained by a freedom of information request reveal that roofers were called to inspect the roof of Casual Male XL the day before it collapsed on Jan. 19. Sign up for the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Evergreen Park Patch requested the building inspection reports dating back to 2008 for the commercial properties at 2637-2641 W. 95th St., including Casual Male LX and the Sherwin-Williams paint store. The building inspection reports are fairly mundane for most of the five-year period, citing housekeeping issues, malfunctioning emergency exit lights and improper encasement of fire extinguishers. In August of 2010, Sherwin-Williams was asked to keep its front doors unlocked during business…
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
The latest in area business news
Amid announced plans to expand nationally and internationally by more than 400 stores, the Krispy Kreme doughnut chain recently closed its last remaining Southland location at 14747 S. Cicero Ave. in Midlothian. Bloomberg reported that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.'s stock value has soared 60 percent since adding such healthy menu items as oatmeal, fruit juice and smoothies, and 22 percent this month after rumors of a takeover. In December the doughnut-franchise closed a Philadelphia-Krispy Kreme, saying "it was a bad fit" for the area it was in, after just 18 months of operation. The Casual Male XL store at 2627 W. 95th St. in Evergreen Park is closed indefinitely after its roof collapsed without warning on Saturday. The store, which caters…
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Investigation of collapsed roof at Casual Male XL has been turned over to Evergreen Park building department, fire chief says.
Authorities still don’t know what caused the roof to cave in at a men’s clothing store on Saturday afternoon. Sign up for the Evergreen Park Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Evergreen Park Fire Chief Ron Kleinhaus said that a bowstring roof truss at the Casual Male XL store at 2627 W. 95th St. failed and took the roof down with it. What exactly caused the truss to weaken is under investigation. “It was probably fatigue but I’m not an engineer,” Kleinhaus said. “That may be a possible cause.” Firefighters rushed to the scene around 1:26 p.m. Saturday. An employee at the adjacent Sherwin Williams paint store told Patch she heard what sounded like a loud boom and then watched smoke fill the paint store’s warehouse. The employee …
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ep concerned
3:35 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
How could the EP building dept do anything correctly? A lot of patronage jobs there that's for sure! more ›