The firms would be those interested in bidding on the retailer's planned construction start this summer of its estimated 100,000-sf store at the 1.1 million-sf Florida Mall near Orlando International Airport.

Nordstrom took out a half-page, black-and-white advertisement in the Orlando Sentinel at an estimated cost of $1,500 to invite vendors and suppliers to the one-day, 9 a.m.- to-4 p.m. event at the Adam's Mark Hotel in south Orlando.

Nordstrom is looking for subcontractors and suppliers for the interior and exterior portions of the estimated $15 million store. Barbara Valdez, in charge of the supplier diversity program, and Claude Greene, the program's coordinator, could not be reached at GlobeSt.com's publication deadline to learn the aggregate value of the contracts available to minority and women-owned businesses or the hard construction cost of the building.