Arlington Heights ability accept apparent its endure snow carve by Fran Volz. Afterwards 24 years in an old abode on South Arlington Heights Road, the artisan says he will be affected to move out of boondocks in a few weeks.
The village's accident is apparently Elgin's gain.
Volz's abiding works cover the brownish abiding blaze in Memorial Park and carve of William H. Dunton, architect of Arlington Heights, at Arlington Heights Road and Northwest Highway.
But Volz is apparently best accepted for the busy snow sculptures alfresco his home and flat at 1525 S. Arlington Heights Road.
They began with a Smurf in 1987 and accept ranged from Abraham Lincoln to Marilyn Monroe. He aswell started an all-embracing snow carve challenge that is captivated annually at Navy Pier and has created religious snow sculptures at churches in Mount Prospect and Barrington, and a affectionate one for his dentist in city Arlington Heights.
His endure snow carve at home was apparently a few years ago, said Volz, who cited the abridgement of snow this year.
Volz said about two weeks ago he got a apprehension from Banco Popular, now accepted as Community Popular Bank, that he should leave his home in a month. A backer for the coffer could not accommodate advice about the acreage by deadline.
“It's searching like I will move to Elgin,” said Volz. “I'm traveling to be renting a allowance in an earlier abode abreast the downtown, and they accept a barn area I can plan on my project.”
His accepted project, which he estimates will yield two years, involves a brace of 8-foot-tall robots that will action according to commands from “captains” in abstracted high-tech chairs. It's a larger, added avant-garde adaptation of battle robots he played with as a youngster, like a video bold but three-dimensional.
“It's been my dream for 15 years,” said the 53-year-old Volz, who already has sponsors and promises to “settle down” afterwards commutual it.
Volz believes the coffer wants to breach down four barrio it owns on the 1500 block of South Arlington Heights Road, including his home. The added barrio are vacant, and they use able-bodied and catchbasin systems rather than apple baptize and sewer, he said.
While the acreage is benumbed for single-family homes, the village's all-embracing plan calls for offices there, said Matt Dabrowski, development artist with the village. Apple approval of development affairs would be appropriate afore a annihilation admittance is issued, he said. And if something added than single-family homes are planned, rezoning would be required. No annihilation appliance has been filed, said James McAlister, administrator of bloom and building.
“This is not a accustomed move,” said Volz. “I accept sculptures big and baby and molds that yield up big boxes.”
For example, the cast for the “Book of Dreams” at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library is 10 anxiety tall.
“I'll apparently leave some things behind,” he said. “I busy a accumulator locker and whatever doesn't fit in there I'll just leave.”
Volz accustomed hire acclaim for demography affliction of the four barrio if they were acquired by a developer several years ago, and the coffer connected that if it bankrupt on the property, he said.
Volz has done plan on his abode and abnormally mourns the adjustment he just accomplished on the bathroom.
“It's sad, but maybe this will about-face into something,” he said. “Elgin is big into the arts, too. I'd like to acknowledge everybody for all the years of advancing by and giving me abutment and demography pictures and bringing kids over.”
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