Lombard's YorktownCenter is reinventing the suburban shopping mall with hundreds of apartments. Could a grocery store be next?
Drive around Yorktown Center, and you'll find an empty Carson's department store and a wide-open parking lot where there was once a steady crawl of traffic.
The development team is looking to invigorate a tired area of Yorktown with a five-story apartment complex. The dormant Carson's store would be demolished to clear the way for a public plaza between the mall and two proposed residential buildings. Tenant spaces around the grassy plaza will get a fresh new facade. A new, two-story mall entrance and pedestrian improvements will help create a"neighborhood-like environment.
Lombard's plan commission has endorsed the proposal. Village trustees are set to discuss the revitalization effort and an economic incentive package on April 20. A final vote is expected in May. "A lot of these were built in the '60s, in the '70s, and especially with what's happened and transpired over the last couple of years, things have to change, things have to adapt," Rood recently told Lombard plan commissioners.
"That section of the property is a blight," Whitaker said."Expansive parking lots, particularly those that sit mostly empty, are a sign of the past. They show a lack of activity. I think they actually detract from the atmosphere of the mall."
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