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Wicker Park, You're Getting Another Mattress Shop

By Alisa Hauser | December 1, 2015 8:27am
 Mattress Firm is opening a new storefront at 1702 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Bucktown/Wicker Park.
Mattress Firm is opening a new storefront at 1702 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Bucktown/Wicker Park.
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WICKER PARK —  A mattress shop chain has signed a lease for part of the former Scoop NYC building along a stretch of Milwaukee Avenue that both Wicker Park and Bucktown claim.  

If everything goes as planned, Houston-based Mattress Firm will be opening another Chicago location within the next 60 days at 1702 N. Milwaukee Ave., next to Physician's Immediate Care, according to Jerry Becker, a representative for the building's owner. 

The 5,000-square-feet spot will be the chain's 24th Chicago outpost and second in Bucktown, according to a list of other locations on the chain's website.  A manager at a Lincoln Park Mattress Firm confirmed the entry into the area. 

"Bucktown does not have a lot of larger footprint spaces and they were attracted to that spot because there is parking and it sort of skirts Bucktown and Wicker Park. It hits both markets and it has good identity with a sign," Becker said.

Becker said that typically mattress stores are like furniture shops and do not draw heavy traffic like other forms of retail, so Mattress Firm will be a good tenant for not maxing out the approximately eight parking spots in front of the store.

Empty since Scoop NYC shuttered in February 2014, Becker said there were "a number of prospects" interested in the location. 

"The building owner was interested in a tenant with longevity and Mattress Firm has over 1,000 stores nationally. We felt confidant they would pay rent on a longer term lease," Becker said.

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