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Residents urge caution over possible data center at former Metro South Hospital site
Summary
At a packed Blue Island council meeting, residents urged officials to reject or fully study any push to convert the privately owned former Metro South Hospital parcel into a data center, citing water use, noise, pollution and few local jobs; the mayor said no formal application has been submitted.
Mayor Fred Velado opened the public-comment period by reading a prepared statement saying the former Metro South Hospital site is privately owned and that no formal development proposal has been submitted to the city. He told the audience that any future proposal would have to go through planning, zoning, council review and public hearings.
Residents who spoke during an extended public-comment block urged the council to reject or slow any data-center plan for the 12-acre parcel near City Hall. Marie Nitteman said the parcel ‘‘fits…
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