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After years of waiting, development work will begin again on the development at Hilliard’s Hickory Chase. The Hilliard school board this week unanimously approved “a compensation agreement with the city of Hilliard and gave its support to a tax-increment-financing [TIF] district for Hickory Chase,” ThisWeek Community News reports. Hilliard City Council went into recess during a concurrent meeting to wait for the board’s vote, reconvening after the school board vote and then voting 6-1 to approve “three legislative items related to Hickory Chase,” the article reports. The TIF will “allow the development of Greenwich Investors Hickory Chase LLC’s 58 acres at the southeast corner of Davidson and Leap roads,” land that has been “virtually abandoned since 2009” after a previous developer filed for bankruptcy. NBC4i.com reports that Greenwich Investors has plans to develop retail space and apartment residences, while Hilliard will purchase the community center space as a new location for the Hilliard branch of the Columbus Metropolitan Library.