Plans for a new Chicago Billabong retail store on the city’s State Street have apparently been scrapped according to a story in Chicago Business.
Gourmet grocer Fox & Obel and trendy surf-wear retailer Billabong are dropping plans for stores in the former Carson Pirie Scott & Co. building on State Street, leaving the ambitious project with only one tenant as it approaches an opening next fall amid the bleakest retail climate in decades.
Probably not a bad idea. Are people even shopping any more?
[Link: Chicago Business]
