GLADSTONE PARK — A quick-service restaurant, hair salon and cell phone store want to open at a plaza now under renovation at one of the busiest intersections on the Far Northwest Side, officials said.

Ald. John Arena (45th) will host a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Hitch Elementary School, 5625 N. McVicker Ave., to discuss the plans for Gladstone Plaza at Northwest Highway and Foster Avenue.



Blank signs at Gladstone Plaza await new tenants for the strip mall. (DNAinfo/Heather Cherone}

The site, which had been vacant for nearly a decade, is being renovated, and Immediate MD plans to open a 4,000-square-foot facility at the plaza, said Scott Goldman, a managing principal of Revision Real Estate Investment Group.

A cell phone store, hair salon and a quick-service restaurant have signed letters of intent to open at the plaza, a step short of signing a lease, Goldman said. However, those uses require a change in the property's zoning from manufacturing to retail, he said.

"We've had a great deal of interest from national chains," Goldman said, declining to name any of the businesses interested in the plaza at 5226-28 N. Northwest Hwy.

Work is on schedule to renovate the plaza, and new facade for the immediate care clinic is complete, Goldman said. A former Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits restaurant will be renovated once it is leased to accommodate the needs of the tenant, Goldman said.

Initially, Goldman said the new stores would be leased to shops, not restaurants, because the triangular parcel can be difficult to get into and out of when traffic entering or exiting the Kennedy Expressway backs up.

The site will be designed to ensure the smooth flow of traffic, Goldman said.

Arena faces a runoff on April 7 against Chicago Police Lt. John Garrido to keep his seat on the Chicago City Council.



A quick-service restaurant, hair salon and cell phone store want to open at a plaza now under renovation at one of the busiest intersections on the Far Northwest Side, officials said. (DNAinfo/Heather Cherone)

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