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May

High-End Retailers Line Up For Commercial Space at Block 37 in Chicago

Author: Adam Fendelman, Category: Real Estate

CHICAGO – While still under construction, owners of the Block 37 project on State Street in Chicago have already lined up an impressive list of high-end retail companies to fill the new commercial space.

Crain’s Chicago Business and the Chicago Sun-Times reported this week that German sportswear company Puma is the latest big-brand retailer to sign a lease with Block 37 owners Joseph Freed & Associates.

Puma, which will occupy 8,500 square feet on two levers, joins an eight-screen Muvico movie theater and a David Barton Gym. Freed, which is targeting upscale merchants, is also rumored to be in talks with Bebe Stores, Zara, Apple, J.Crew and Coach.

Freed announced last week it had signed a lease with high-end grocer Fox & Obel for 25,000 square feet of space in the former Carson Pirie Scott store at 1 S. State St. in Chicago, which is another one of the developer’s State Street locations.

By Megan O’Neil