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What Should Fill the Former US Bank Building?

Visions for Vacancies: A grocery store? Another bank? The library, perhaps?

Part of the includes ideas for what kinds of business to promote and encourage. Real progress, of course, is predicated by the market. You can make all the wish lists in the world, but in the end, there has to be a buyer—and in this economy, that's a tough prospect.

That said, there is nothing wrong with making a wish list. And there is something positive—even healthy—in gathering creative ideas from the community.

In that spirit, what do you think would be the right uses for the former US Bank building at 21 N. Third St." The asking price for the property has dropped from more than $3 million to under $2.4 million, according to LoopNet.com.

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The building has been on the market since the bank moved to its new Geneva location in August 2010.

In the Geneva Patch "Icons for Sale" series, a managing director for the Kennedy Wilson Properties Group, told Patch intern Garrett Lance that an ideal tenant would be a bank, a "boutique grocer," medical office or restaurant.

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So Patch asks you, what would you like to see in the former US Bank property? Share your ideas in the comments section below.


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