One small step for Mariano's - one big leap for the near South Side?
http://www.chicagorealestatedaily.co...to-bronzeville
Mariano's, Wal-Mart push into Bronzeville
Micah Maidenberg May 29, 2013
Two big retailers are honing in on properties for new stores in Bronzeville on the South Side.
Milwaukee-based Roundy's Supermarkets Inc. plans to open a Mariano's Fresh Market on land owned by the Chicago Housing Authority near
39th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, according to a person familiar with the project.
Less than a mile from that site, at
39th and State streets, Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc. wants to open a supercenter, another source said.
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“It's kind of what most retailers have been doing over the last few years — finding sites in the urban fabric, with the density that the city provides,” Todd Cabanban, principal at Chicago-based brokerage Cabanban Rubin & Mayberry LLC, said of the potential deals.
Yet parts of Bronzeville, once home to scores of public housing units that have been demolished, have grappled in recent years with vacant lots and population loss, which could complicate both companies' plans.
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