MainStreet
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Type | Department store |
Founded | 1983, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
Headquarters | Bannockburn, Illinois, United States |
Area served | Chicagoland; Detroit, Michigan; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Twin Cities, Minnesota |
Industry | Retail |
Products | Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, home electronics, small appliances, housewares |
Parent | Federated Department Stores |
MainStreet was a department store chain based in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The chain was launched in November 1983 by Federated Department Stores (now known as Macy's, Inc.).[1] Throughout the 1980s, the chain expanded to more than twenty stores in Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota. By 1988, MainStreet was sold to the Wisconsin-based chain Kohl's, which converted all MainStreet locations to Kohl's that year.
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[edit] Format
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The store was a middle-market chain focused primarily on softlines, similar to Mervyns and Kohl's. MainStreet stores often featured a "racetrack" layout similar to that of Kohl's, but checkouts were distributed around the store like a traditional department store.
[edit] Decline
The MainStreet chain was sold by Campeau Corporation, then-owners of Federated, in order to reduce debts.[2] Kohl's acquired twenty-six of the MainStreet locations in 1988, converting them all to the Kohl's banner.[3]
[edit] Former locations
The following is a list of all known former MainStreet locations. All locations are currently operating as Kohl's, except where noted otherwise.
[edit] Illinois
- Arlington Heights - 800 W. Dundee Rd.
- Aurora - 4340 Fox Valley Center Dr.
- Bloomingdale - Stratford Square
- Burbank - Cicero Ave. - current status unknown
- Calumet City - River Oaks West - later Kohl's, now vacant, to be torn down
- Carpentersville - Spring Hill Mall
- Chicago Ridge - Chicago Ridge Mall (now Westfield Chicago Ridge)
- Downers Grove - 2920 Finley (still operating as Kohl's, but the shopping center is still called "MainStreet Square")
- Hodgkins - 9350 Joliet Rd.
- Mount Prospect - Randhurst Mall - later Kohl's, demolished for Costco
- Niles - Golf Mill Mall
- Norridge - Harlem Irving Plaza
- Orland Park - Orland Park Place
- Vernon Hills - Hawthorn Hills - later Kohl's, now Wickes Furniture
- Woodridge - 1001 75th St.
[edit] Michigan
- Farmington Hills - 30150 Grand River Ave.
- Harper Woods - Eastland Center - later Kohl's, closed and became Target 1995
- Kentwood - 3131 Woodland Dr. SE
- Novi - 43550 W. Oaks Dr.
- Roseville - Macomb Mall
- Sterling Heights - 44200 Schoenherr Rd.
- Southfield - Northland Center - later Kohl's, closed 1995, now Anna's Linens and Jeepers!
- Taylor - 14500 Racho Rd.
- Troy - 500 John R. Rd.
- Waterford - Summit Place Mall
- Westland - Westland Center
[edit] Minnesota
- Blaine - Northtown Mall - later Kohl's, store relocated 2004, now Burlington Coat Factory
- Brooklyn Center - 2501 County Road 10
[edit] References
- ^ Federated to add specialty div. and fine-tune non-department stores, Discount Store News, July 9, 1984.
- ^ Toy story, BusinessWeek, December 4, 2000.
- ^ Our Milestones, Kohl's Corporation, Last accessed January 23, 2007.