Fashion retailer Primark seeking upper level of ex-Sears store at Woodfield, village says

Only five months after the very last Sears retail outlet in Illinois shut its doors, there are options afoot for the European manner retailer Primark to occupy the higher stage of that former 50-yr-previous web-site at Woodfield Shopping mall in Schaumburg.

Village officers say they have been educated that Primark is pursuing a 10-year lease of the higher amount from Transformco, the organization that emerged from Sears Holdings’ personal bankruptcy.

Schaumburg Financial Progress Director Matt Frank said the village is anticipating a proposal to be filed in May for a new Primark store to open in 2023.

“I feel it displays the attraction of Woodfield Shopping mall and that significant-profile end users like Primark want to be there,” Frank stated of the iconic shopping center that celebrated its individual 50th anniversary very last calendar year.

Primark has one current Chicago-region locale: 35 N. Point out St., at the intersection of Washington Avenue in Chicago’s Loop.

Associates of Primark, Transformco and Woodfield Shopping mall did not immediately react to requests for comment Wednesday.

Like the rest of Woodfield Mall’s original anchors, nevertheless, the Sears store normally was owned by the retailer itself and Transformco intends to remain the landlord, Frank explained.

Even though the identification of a new tenant for approximately 50 % the former Sears retailer happened somewhat promptly, the former Lord & Taylor shop at Woodfield has remained vacant considering that its 2020 closing.

There is certainly also been no word of a bidder for Sears Holdings’ 30-year-previous company headquarters consisting of 2.4 million square ft of business house and 120 undeveloped acres close to it in Hoffman Estates.

Transformco set the campus that is 11 miles west of Woodfield Shopping mall on the sector before this calendar year.