Founder of J. Jeffers & Co. has been meeting with civic leaders as they prepare to restart construction
ROCKFORD — Longtime southwest Rockford businessman Joe Bove has watched plans to revamp the Barber-Colman campus evaporate several times during its roughly two and a half decades of vacancy.
There was the late businessman Ken Hendrick’s pitch for a casino, a plan to turn it into a youth sports complex, and a proposal to make it the home of Rock Valley College’s advanced technology center…