Developers see it as an opportunity to improve the area.
Most tenants have left and ComEd can turn off the lights, but problems at the Reed-Chatwood complex have left a massive vacancy in the South Main corridor. Some of the larger companies made arrangements with local utilities to stay. Others left by Friday morning, when utilities were allowed to shut off service. But the unpaid bills and empty offices leave questions about the future of the 15-building complex, which is directly behind the site of a planned strip mall on redeveloping South Main Street. Now mostly empty, the complex is quickly becoming a massive, underused property.