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By Sam Bader, Horizon Construction Team LLC | 20+ years building retail, restaurant, and franchise projects across Chicagoland | Published November 3, 2026 Quick Answer The Downtown Orland Park development is a $120 million project northwest of 143rd Street and LaGrange Road, next to the

By Sam Bader, Horizon Construction Team LLC | 20+ years building retail, restaurant, and franchise projects across Chicagoland | Published November 3, 2026 Quick Answer The Amazon Orland Park store is a one-story building of about 230,000 square feet at the southwest corner of 159th

By Sam Bader, Horizon Construction Team LLC | 20+ years building retail, restaurant, and franchise projects across Chicagoland | Published September 21, 2026 Quick Answer Most new retail in Naperville in 2026 is not going on empty land. It is going into old shopping centers

By Sam Bader, Horizon Construction Team LLC | 20+ years building retail, restaurant, and franchise projects across Chicagoland | Published September 21, 2026 Quick Answer Every new retail store and restaurant in Illinois must meet three sets of accessibility rules: the federal ADA, the Illinois

Quick Answer Commercial construction permits in Chicago and the suburbs typically take 2 to 6 months from application to issuance, and longer when zoning relief, a state highway access permit, or a change of occupancy is involved. In the City of Chicago, most commercial work

Quick Answer Retail site development is everything outside the building footprint: parking, drives, stormwater detention, utilities, grading, landscaping, lighting, and accessible routes. On a ground-up retail project it commonly runs 15 to 30 percent of total construction cost, and it is decided almost entirely by

Here is a trend we have been watching closely, and honestly, we are pretty excited about it! Middle Eastern coffee shops are opening across Chicago and the suburbs faster than almost any other kind of food and drink business right now. They are filling strip

Quick Answer Chicago retail construction in 2026 is supply-constrained rather than demand-constrained. Roughly 1.1 million square feet of retail was under construction across the metro entering the year, about 0.2 percent of total inventory, according to CoStar data published by Matthews. Elevated costs and tight