North Park Plaza
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| Location | Villa Park, Illinois |
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| Address | 270 W North Ave, Villa Park, IL 60181 |
| Opening date | 1980 |
| No. of stores and services | 12 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 340,000 ft² |
| No. of floors | 1 (formerly 2) |
North Park Plaza is a shopping center in Villa Park, Illinois. Formerly an indoor mall known only as North Park, the mall opened in 1980 as a 340,000 square foot enclosed shopping center. Anchors such as Robert Hall Village clothing store, Dominick's Finer Foods, and JCPenney were found in the mall. Today North Park is modernized.[1]
Past stores
- Original anchors included Robert Hall, Dominick's and JCPenney.
- Robert Hall closed and became Kmart, much like Crystal Point Mall in Crystal Lake, IL.
- Kmart closed in 2000 due to failing sales and became the main mall entrance to the swap market.
- JCPenney closed March 2001 and became Ames Discount Department Store in November 2001 during the short re-entrance to Chicagoland.
- Ames closed in 2002 after bankruptcy and the store became HOBO.
- Sometime in the late 1990's, Dominick's closed and the Fruit Market opened before Staples came.
- HOBO relocated to the former Robert Hall/Kmart store.
- Staples and Pet Supplies Plus opened in 2005.
Shopping center
The shopping center contains Fruit Market, Forman Mills and Discovery. White Castle and Advance Auto Parts opened in the area in 2006. Forman Mills opened in Late 2014.[2] In the Spring of 2016, a strip plaza with Chipotle Mexican Grill, Firehouse Subs, Dunkin Donuts and four other services were built.[3] On August 21, 2017, Wendy's opened to customers. HOBO closed on December 20, 2018.[4]
References
- ^ "North Park Mall: Villa Park, Illinois on DEADMALLS.com". Deadmalls.com.
- ^ www.peopleandplacesnewspaper.com/forman-mills/
- ^ https://www.invillapark.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=233
- ^ "HOBO stores set to close". Crain's Chicago Business. 23 October 2018.
External links
- This article incorporates material derived from the "North Park Mall" article on the malls wiki at Fandom (formerly Wikia) and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (30 January 2019).