Nordstrom Pitches Minority/Women Owners

ORLANDO-In an obvious public relations move, Seattle-based Nordstrom Inc. is holding an open house here Tuesday for minority and women-owned subcontracting and supply firms.

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.