Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Retail Look: Former Omni Superstore, Prospect Heights Illinois

Today, we'll look at a former Omni Superstore in Prospect Heights. I should quickly mention this but the towns name actually comes from the two towns they are between. Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect. This store opened in 1988 in a shopping center anchored by them. In 1999, this store was converted to a Dominicks and surprise enough stayed until 2004. After that it was vacant for a long time till January 2014 when Ultra Foods opened, this store failed and closed in January 2016. This stores grand opening is actually location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmUdvcDdus. The entire company would go out of business last year. On May 18, 2016, Tony's Fresh Market opened in the former stores and continues to gladly stay opened. I've been here some times and I like shopping here. For Ultra Foods and Tony's Fresh Market, this is the most north they have got which makes these the closest stores to me. The Former Omni part is still exist today except for some changes but not much. The two links I'll put are the grand opening of Tony's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEvx4G-hWso and the blog that I did on the Former Omni Superstores which you can still see the store vacant: http://midwestreal.blogspot.com/2018/03/former-omni-superstores.html Now lets see some pictures.

 The Omni Superstore logo would have been right here






 The store can be very dark at times







 I'm pretty sure Jewel using the exact same screen

 An add on by either Ultra or Tony's. The Omni map doesn't have this


 The Seating Area

 A rare high up view of a grocery store









The lights from the Omni Days 

 That roof is so Omni!




The view to the upstairs cafe 






 Majority of the grocery store from the top







Ultra Foods slogan labal scare still visible

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