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Houzz was founded as an online platform in February 2009 by Adi Tatarko and her husband Alon Cohen, in response to the challenges they faced with their own home remodeling project. [2] They found it difficult to communicate their vision for their home, and to find the right professionals for their project. [3]
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois.Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
But now, Macy's is forging ahead and closing 45 more stores in the year ahead in hopes to try out smaller store formats and only have a presence at top-tier malls, as noted by CNBC.
Construction began on Woodfield Mall in October 1969 [9] and the mall opened on September 9, 1971, with 59 stores, growing to 189 stores with 1.9 million retail square feet by 1973, along with a 135-foot (41 m) water tower to supply water to the mall and the nearby village. It was the largest mall in the United States at the time of its opening.
Stratford Square Mall was a shopping mall that opened on March 9, 1981, in Bloomingdale, Illinois, a northwestern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, United States.Originally owned by Urban Retail Properties Co., the 1,300,000-square-foot (120,000 m 2) indoor shopping mall was designed by RTKL Associates, and built [4] by Graycor of Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois.
In the 1950s and 1960s, storefronts were modified in an attempt to modernize their looks. The department stores closed in the 1970s and 1980s after SouthPark Mall opened in 1974. Since then some of the older buildings in the district have been torn down, but for the most part, the buildings that remain have retained their historical integrity.
Nov. 16—CHAMPAIGN — Morez Johnson Jr. got a boisterous round of applause Tuesday night when he was shown on the State Farm Center videboard during the second half of No. 23 Illinois' Gavitt ...