Welcome to the Winnetka Post Office Site Community Survey!
The former Post Office site holds a highly visible and central position within the Elm Street District, presenting a rare opportunity to shape the area’s future. Now vacant, the site allows the Village to build on previous planning efforts while inviting meaningful community input to re-imagine its potential. To support this work, the Village has engaged Teska Associates to lead a planning and engagement process that will provide the Village Council with a clear, actionable path toward redevelopment.
This planning process includes a community survey and preliminary concept development (Winter); a public meeting and online feedback opportunity (Late Spring); and concept refinement and Council action (Fall).
We need your help to make this project the best it can be!
We invite you to take the Community Survey to share your thoughts on current site conditions and future possibilities. Your input will help shape redevelopment concepts, which will be presented to the community in late spring for review and feedback.
This planning effort will result in a preferred concept and clear, implementable actions that will help Council move the site toward its future vision.
The study area is described in the map below:
BACKGROUND + HISTORY
Over the years, the Village has completed several studies to guide the future of the Post Office site within the West Elm Street District. With the Post Office now vacated from this Village-owned property, the site presents new opportunities while continuing to provide much-needed public parking for the District—an important consideration as planning moves forward.
The upcoming planning process will be a community-wide effort that builds upon the following studies, summaries of which were included in the October 14, 2025 Village Council Study Session materials:
- 2025: Winnetka Caucus Survey Results
- 2023: Winnetka Futures 2040 Comprehensive Plan
- 2018: Winnetka Downtown Streetscape and Signage Plan
- 2016: Downtown Master Plan
- 2007: Ad Hoc Post Office Committee Planning
SHARE YOUR FEEDBACK
Use the following activities in the tabs below to share your ideas about the future of the Post Office site:
- A community survey questionnaire to understand your relationship to and ideas for the Post Office site
- A comment map where you can share places you love, new ideas, and places that need improvement near the Post Office site
