The popular discount chain is in lease discussions with Joseph Freed & Associates LLC, the firm that owns the building, said Jayne Thompson, Freed spokeswoman.<\/p>\n
“Freed is talking to a number of retailers about the Carson location, and they [Target] are one of them,” Thompson said Saturday. <\/span><\/p>\n She declined to name the other interested parties. Freed is also the developer of the Block 37 property in the Loop, which is in foreclosure.<\/p>\n If Target opened in the former Carson space, now called Sullivan Center, its store would include a grocery section, Thompson said.<\/p>\n The former home of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., 1 S. State, was designed by famed architect Louis Sullivan more than 110 years ago. It housed the company’s flagship department store for 102 years.<\/p>\n Bon-Ton, owner of Carson Pirie Scott, announced in August 2006 it was closing the State Street store because of lagging sales and high operating costs. The store closed in February 2007.<\/p>\n The entire building includes about 1 million square feet, though Carson’s used only about 600,000 square feet of that for retail.<\/p>\n After Bon-Ton announced it was closing the Carson store, Freed officials were hopeful of quickly filling the retail space.<\/p>\n One company official told the Chicago Sun-Times in 2006 he hoped to have retailing open for the 2007 Christmas shopping season.<\/p>\n That never materialized.<\/p>\n Currently, offices occupy several of the building’s floors. Stir-fry restaurant Flat Top Grill is the building’s lone retail tenant, occupying 5,400 square feet at 30 S. Wabash.<\/p>\n Several rumored tenants for the space — including Whole Foods, now-defunct clothing chain Steve & Barry’s and Canyon Ranch resorts — never materialized.<\/p>\n Officials at Roundy’s Supermarkets, a Milwaukee-based grocery chain, also expressed interest in the space but never inked a deal.<\/p>\n Freed announced in 2008 that upscale grocer Fox & Obel would open a 25,000-square-foot store in the building, but that fell through, too. Australian surf shop Billabong International also dropped plans to open a three-level store in the building.<\/p>\n Discount chain among firms in talks for former State Street store The Chicago SunTimes reported this morning that Target Corp. may be focusing its trademark bull’s-eye on a distinctive piece of Chicago property — the former Carson Pirie Scott & Co. building on State Street. The popular discount chain is in lease discussions with Joseph […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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