The Mokena Village Board will consider a performance-based financial incentive that could award Midwest Furniture Liquidators, a business with a Mokena store for 10 years, up to $150,000 in sales tax revenue over the next five years, according to Brent Cann, Mokena community development director.
Cann said the incentive, which would apply if the business increases its sales, may be voted on Nov. 24 or Dec. 8 as part of a larger effort to reinvigorate the area. He said the company plans to invest in needed improvements to the store along 191st Street.
Amjad Hamdan, head of operations for Midwest Furniture Liquidators, said his renovation plans will be a “little twist of a new image for the business.” Midwest Furniture Liquidators also has a Chicago area store in Schaumburg.
Hamdan said h

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