A Fresh Market grocery store will open next year at Yorktown Center, which is undergoing redevelopment in the Chicago suburb of Lombard.
Fresh Market will join other new retailers at Yorktown, including a nearly 20,000-square-foot Dave & Busters that opened this week; a Tapville Social Drink While You Shop kiosk; the newly opened Empire Burgers + Brew, and Ancho and Agave, set to open this winter.
The North Carolina-based grocery chain, which started in Greensboro in 1982, now has 161 locations in 22 states.
The addition of Fresh Market comes amid the redevelopment of the 1.2 million-square-foot shopping center's former Carson Pirie Scott department store into residential and commercial space.
Pacific Retail Capital Partners of El Segundo, California, and Synergy Construction of Chicago are building 700 apartments, a three-acre park, and dining and retail space at the 12-acre location at 230 Yorktown Center.
Yorktown Center opened in 1968 with Carson Pirie Scott as one of its first anchor stores. The store operated until the summer of 2018, when it shut its doors for good.
Pacific Retail has owned the property since 2012 and said it sold a portion of the mall in 2018, which was redeveloped into 500 senior-living apartments.
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