Mall giant tries new format at S. Side site

David Roeder
From the Chicago Sun-Times
July 17, 2006

In a unique alliance with a Chicago community group, the nation's second-largest owner of shopping malls is working to attract stores to a large tract on the city's South Side.

General Growth Properties Inc. has joined forces with the Greater Southwest Development Corp. in marketing the site east of Western Avenue between 59th and 62nd streets. Most of the land is vacant and used to be the home of an American Can factory that was torn down in the 1990s.

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