The Naperville City Council recently granted a $49,050 grant to fix up the Ogden Mall, at the northwest corner of Ogden Avenue and Naperville Wheaton Road, as part of the Ogden Avenue Site Reimbursement Grant Program.
The grant funds are being used to help reimburse property owners for qualifying sign, building facade and landscape improvements made to their sites.
According to the grant application, the landscape improvements will "enhance the landscaping at the three main parkway entrances to the mall as well as throughout the perimeter." The landscaping will include installing or replacing parkway and perimeter shade trees and the parking lot will be screened with shrubs and ornamental grasses.
Do you think this is a good use of tax money? Are there other areas along Ogden Avenue you'd like to see fixed up or otherwise improved?
