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Ravenous for Bite-Size Retail

Published Thursday, October 01, 2009

They're just mad about corned beef in Chicago. And hamburgers. And pizza and frozen yogurt. For the first time in years, as large-format retail development has screeched virtually to a halt, it's the small-store tenants who have come out from the shadows and moved to center stage in the Windy City. Quickly expanding chain restaurants, many of them franchised fast-food emporiums offering deep-discount value to budget-strapped consumers, have brightened up an otherwise dreary retail landscape in the nation's heartland. A couple of large projects left over from pre-recession planning — including the 280,000 sq. ft. Block 37 urban ...

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