A piece of Chicago that served the country in wartime and got reinvented for postwar consumerism only to struggle in recent years could be reinvented again. It’s a “back to the future” strategy ...
The buyer of a suburban Chicago mall wants to trade food courts for forklifts. Chicago-based Bridge Industrial is under contract to buy Ford City Mall on the city’s Southwest Side with a $150 million ...
Pete Kastanes is reminiscing about the golden days of the Ford City Mall. The rambling Southwest Side indoor shopping center opened 60 years ago this summer, as Chicago’s enthusiastic answer to the ...
Ford City Mall could soon be sold and replaced with an industrial park, according to a letter obtained by WGN-TV. The letter, sent to constituents of the 18th Ward by Ald. Derrick Curtis, centers ...
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As Ford City Mall Faces End, Nostalgia Grows For Former Shopping Mecca Of Southwest Side
CHICAGO — By the time Ford City Shopping Center opened at 76th Street and Cicero Avenue sixty years ago this month, over 4,500 enclosed shopping centers that were small cities unto themselves dotted ...
Bridge Industrial is looking to buy and demolish Ford City Mall near Midway International Airport and replace it with four warehouses. If approved, the project would cost more than $150 million.
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