{"id":2331,"date":"2008-11-03T09:12:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2008-11-03T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T16:12:26","slug":"billabong-scraps-chicago-retail-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Billabong Scraps Chicago Retail Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/31637.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/31637.jpg','popup','width=260,height=292,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/31637-tm.jpg\" height=\"224\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"31637\" \/><\/a>Plans for a new Chicago <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> retail store on the city&#8217;s State Street have apparently been scrapped according to a story in Chicago Business.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gourmet grocer <strong>Fox &#38; Obel<\/strong> and trendy surf-wear retailer <strong>Billabong<\/strong> are dropping plans for stores in the former<strong> Carson Pirie Scott &#38; Co<\/strong>. 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Probably not a bad idea. Are people even shopping any more?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/news.pl?id=31637&amp;seenIt=1\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Business<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for a new Chicago Billabong retail store on the city&#8217;s State Street have apparently been scrapped according to a story in Chicago Business. Gourmet grocer Fox &#38; Obel and trendy surf-wear retailer Billabong are dropping plans for stores in the former Carson Pirie Scott &#38; Co. building on State Street, leaving the ambitious project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,3,4,6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}