Meijer Planned to Anchor Drexel Town Square
Developers have scrapped plans for junior box stores on the eastern third of the former Delphi property, saying a strong anchor store is needed to attract other tenants.
When plans for a town center on the former Delphi property were first presented, "junior box" stores were proposed for the eastern third of the 85-acre site, with some city officials and residents skewering the idea of a big box on the site. Things have changed. As the team leading the project began shopping the plan, centered on a new downtown for Oak Creek with high-end apartments on the west, one of the first questions often asked by prospective companies was, "who is anchoring the site?" It became clear to developers they may need a big box store if they want to draw tenants to the downtown, where planners envision shops leading to a town square. The collection of junior box stores, as first planned, wasn't going to be enough to draw …
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Esme Grichologiza
2:06 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Really, people--IKEA? IKEA being supporting by Franklin and OC? There are less than 40 IKEA stores in the U.S. with 2 already in the Chicago metro area. There isn't a chance that the Milwaukee metro area shoppers would fit in with the IKEA concept, let along Franklin/OC. more ›