As planning moves forward on the new CompassPoint development in downtown Des Plaines, Via Roma restaurant owners plan to move into the former Maine Insurance building at 464 Northwest Hwy. “We’re not going far,” said restaurant owner Lisa Leslie. The new location is only about a mile from where the Italian restaurant has operated for the past nine years along Lee Street just south of Ellinwood.

Via Roma’s current location at 686 Lee is in a building already sold to CompassPoint developers. Plans for the 200-unit residential building with retail space on its bottom level are expected to come before the city’s planning and zoning board this week, said Mike McMahon of the Des Plaines Community and Economic Development Dept. Construction could start next spring.