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Second Time Around Shop May Move in Wicker Park, Closing Lakeview Store

By Alisa Hauser | July 31, 2014 9:40am | Updated on August 1, 2014 8:47am
 Second Time Around at 1543 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Second Time Around Consignment Shop
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WICKER PARK — A chain of designer secondhand clothing shops is pulling out of Lakeview and putting its Wicker Park store up for rent in hopes of a finding a subleaser to take over its space.

At its Wicker Park location at 1543 N. Milwaukee "we have a 'for lease' sign up because we have been considering relocating that store — not closing it," wrote Jeanne Stafford, vice president of marketing for Second Time Around, a Boston, Mass.-based consignment shop chain.

"At this time, we are staying put in Wicker Park!" she said.

Second Time Around opened its Wicker Park and Lincoln Park boutiques in February 2012, which were followed by shops in Lakeview and Evanston. 

In a Facebook post Wednesday, the Wicker Park shop announced new arrivals from designers such as Cynthia Rowley, St. John and Armani.

A sign in the window of the Wicker Park store says, "Store for rent, no broker's fees."

Billed as a "rarely available location" in an online listing, the 2,100-square-foot retail space lease is being rented at $42 per square-foot, making rent $7,350 per month on the 10-year lease, which expires in 2022.

In Lakeview, a manager at Second Time Around's store at 3709 N. Southport —  which opened last July said that the store would be closing at the end of August.

Stafford said Second Time Around has decided to close its Lakeview shop to "focus our energies" on its efforts in Wicker Park, its Lincoln Park location at 823 W. Armitage Ave., and its Evanston shop.

Stafford added, "We love being in Chicago and hope to open more locations in the city in the future."

Second Time Around has more than 40 locations around the country and celebrated its 40th year in business last year, according to the Boston Globe.

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