Mokena on target with tax sharing deal with Point Blank Gun Range

On Monday the Mokena Village Board voted on and approved unanimously a tax sharing deal with Point Blank, a gun range that has just been built in the village. The vote came on the same day that the company opened its doors on their 16,000-square-foot indoor gun range. The building currently holds 22 pistol-shooting ranges, space for retail sales and two classrooms for gun safety and handling training. The current lot also has room for a future 100-yard rifle range if found to be economically viable.

Point Blank states that their building is state-of-the-art and contains all the necessary safety requirements for modern gun ranges. The sales tax agreement is a continuation of the original 2006 agreement that all industrial-zoned lots in the business park located at 88th Avenue and Springlake Drive would receive a share of the village’s sales tax revenue, if approved by the board. Village officials estimate there will be around $3 million in taxable annual sales, with around $15,000 going back to Point Blank under the new agreement. The estimates also assume that Point Blank should become a destination spot within Mokena and produce around $180,000 for the village over the next 7 years. This estimate doesn’t include the $45,000 in amusement tax revenue the range should also bring to the village. Mokena Mayor Frank Fleischer stated Monday, “We’re striving to make Mokena a destination and that facility does make it a destination. People will come from all over the place to shoot at that range and come into our town.”