When most people hear the term adaptive reuse in commercial construction, they immediately think of repurposing a historical building like an old warehouse or industrial space or a building like Chicago’s Old Post Office into something new and useful. As a national construction contractor, the Englewood Commercial Construction team has been involved in multiple adaptive reuse […]
With the recent Chicago commercial construction news of Target moving to State Street and Wal-Mart opening its Neighborhood Market store at Presidential Towers, it begs the question of what other big box retailers might take advantage of current commercial construction costs and available space to introduce a smaller concept store to downtown Chicago. Is this a new retail construction trend? Probably so.
hhGregg is certainly creating buzz in Chicago retail construction with a number of retail retrofit construction projects in Chicago’s suburbs, so perhaps they are a likely candidate to penetrate the city’s urban retail market.