CHICAGO—The retail group of Englewood Construction recently completed an interior build-out for Chicago Cruise Lines and has also begun work on two new projects, including an American Girl Store in Orlando, FL.
“As consumers gain confidence and the economy continues to improve, we have seen a willingness for retailers to take on ground-up developments and substantial expansions,” said William Di Santo, president of Lemont, IL-based Englewood. “There is a lot of pent-up demand in the market and healthy retailers are finding this is the right time to embark on new projects.”
Englewood will build American Girl, a retailer of children's dolls and accessories, a new 15,000-square-foot store by expanding the 1.8-million-square-foot Florida Mall, the largest mall in Central Florida. The architect for the project is Morristown, NJ-based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
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Brian J. Rogal
Brian J. Rogal is a Chicago-based freelance writer with years of experience as an investigative reporter and editor, most notably at The Chicago Reporter, where he concentrated on housing issues. He also has written extensively on alternative energy and the payments card industry for national trade publications.
