Bloomingdale’s is closing its department store in Skokie’s Westfield Old Orchard mall while planning to open a smaller format store in the mall.
The decision will deal a blow to a mall commonly called Old Orchard, which lost some tenants during the pandemic and in 2018 saw another anchor tenant, Lord & Taylor, pull out. The mall’s owner, Paris-based Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, has said it wants to sell many holdings in a “radical reduction” of its U.S. portfolio.
