Only five months just after the previous Sears retailer in Illinois closed its doorways, there are plans afoot for the European manner retailer Primark to occupy the upper amount of that previous 50-calendar year-previous web-site at Woodfield Shopping mall in Schaumburg.
Village officials say they have been educated that Primark is pursuing a 10-yr lease of the upper stage from Transformco, the organization that emerged from Sears Holdings’ bankruptcy.
Schaumburg Economic Progress Director Matt Frank reported the village is anticipating a proposal to be filed in May possibly for a new Primark keep to open in 2023.
“I assume it exhibits the attraction of Woodfield Mall and that significant-profile end users like Primark want to be there,” Frank reported of the iconic shopping heart that celebrated its possess 50th anniversary past yr.
Primark has 1 present Chicago-location area: 35 N. Point out St., at the intersection of Washington Avenue in Chicago’s Loop.
Reps of Primark, Transformco and Woodfield Shopping mall did not quickly react to requests for remark Wednesday.
Like the rest of Woodfield Mall’s initial anchors, even so, the Sears shop often was owned by the retailer itself and Transformco intends to continue being the landlord, Frank reported.

























Although the identification of a new tenant for nearly 50 percent the former Sears keep transpired rather promptly, the previous Lord & Taylor keep at Woodfield has remained vacant since its 2020 closing.
There’s also been no word of a bidder for Sears Holdings’ 30-yr-old company headquarters consisting of 2.4 million square ft of office environment place and 120 undeveloped acres about it in Hoffman Estates.
Transformco set the campus that’s 11 miles west of Woodfield Shopping mall on the sector before this calendar year.