Zoning & Land Use
OUR EXPERTISE
With extensive experience and knowledge of complex Illinois and federal laws and regulations, Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., has been serving the legal needs of a wide array of business clients throughout Northern Illinois (and extending into Chicago and to the Illinois / Wisconsin border). Our corporate, business and banking practice areas cover a wide scope of organizations and an equally wide array of services.
Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., Provides Legal Services in Commercial and Residential Real Estate TransactionsAt Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., our attorneys have handled thousands of commercial and residential real estate transactions.
The lawyers of Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., have extensive experience in providing land use and other entitlement services to our clients. Over the years, we have represented both publicly and privately owned developers and other land owners in such land use and entitlement matters.
At Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., we have attorneys that have more than 40 years of experience helping clients develop plans on how to have their assets administered and distributed in ways that meet each client’s personal goals. This can relate to lifetime gifting or transfers upon death.
At Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., our attorneys have decades of experience representing municipalities and other governmental entities in every aspect of municipal law. We understand a municipality’s unique needs.
Our representation of financial institutions covers essential services, particularly in the area of commercial lending practice and troubled loan workouts. Our team of attorneys has handled legal services that relate to negotiation and documentation of loan transactions and loan workouts.
At Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., we have extensive experience you can depend upon to assist with all of your litigation needs. The Firm’s litigators are experienced in many types of personal and commercial litigation.
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The lawyers of Bazos, Freeman, Schuster & Pope, LLC., have extensive experience in providing land use and other entitlement services to our clients. Over the years, we have represented both publicly and privately owned developers and other land owners in such land use and entitlement matters as:
Annexations
Subdivisions
Rezoning (map amendment); planned unit development and special use approvals
Real estate tax rebate agreements
Sales tax agreements
TIF redevelopment agreements
Special service area (“SSA”) negotiations and agreements
Our land use practice is conducted in communities and counties throughout Northern Illinois, where, in most places, our lawyers are known to and respected by the development staff of those governmental bodies.
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