Wal-Mart Looking at Second Lakeview Location

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 28, 2011 3:40PM

Curbed Chicago is reporting that Wal-Mart's is considering a second location in Lakeview.

A Northfield-based venture company bought the former Recycled Paper Greetings building at 3636 N. Broadway earlier this month. Crain's reported the sale and quoted JSM Venture Inc. President John S. Mengel as saying the company planned on converting the building into a self-storage facility. Mengel declined further comment.

Curbed's Mark Boyer cited the Wrigley Blog and the Belmont Harbor Neighbors Association in reporting Wal-Mart has applied for permits for the building to build a "Wal-Mart Express." Or, as the Wrigley Blog wrote, "a smaller version of their big A-- stores in the suburbs."

14,086 square feet is hardly a smaller version of the superstore concept Wal-Mart is best known for. But it is in line with the proposed sizes of their planned stores in River North, River West, South Shore and the much ballyhooed Broadway on Surf location. If Wal-Mart hopes to bring a couple dozen stores to the city as it's long planned, this is how it's going to happen.