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Originally Posted by Rizzo
Retail closures are bad, but I wouldn’t say that serious of an issue since there will always be new stores to replace it. Gap brands have not been doing well. Doesn’t help that BR was the go-to affordable clothing store for business casual before the pandemic. Even returning to work a few days a week, the dress code has really become far more casual with my peers. Magnificent mile was mall stores for decades. It’s finally getting over that and will eventually be something different and possibly better. Now the south end of state street, that needs help
As for the parking garage, it’s limited in its function. Functional modernity means it could be converted to something else. That garage was crudely built, the formwork sloppy and it’s incapable of being adapted or supporting heavier floor loads to become any other purpose. Demolish it so we can say we did something correct for urbanity when the anthropologists look back
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It's mind blowing how big of a deal some people are making over a Banana Republic, a generic mid tier store, is closing. They announced over 2 years ago that they were closing over 100 locations in the US by end of 2023. This type of brick and mortar retail in most places has been dying for a long time. People need to wake up, stop thinking it's only their city, and start thinking more intelligently. It could be slow, but Mag Mile will change and be fine eventually. Just hope they get more restaurants right on Michigan Ave
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