SPRING VALLEY — Spring Valley City Council members and the mayor are debating whether to purchase the former Bassicks industrial property along Route 6 for possible future economic development.

The property has recently received a No Further Remediation letter from the Illinois EPA which allows it to be sold and utilized. City officials are considering purchase of the property so that they can control this development and use, for and in the best interest of the community.

“The perception was the property was dirty,” Alderman Walt Marini said.