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Apartments have emerged as the most popular replacement for department stores, with projects underway at the Hawthorne Mall in Vernon Hills and Fox Valley Mall in Aurora and more planned at Westfield Old Orchard in Skokie and Northbrook Court in Northbrook.
But apartments won’t be coming to the former Sears in Orland Park. Cubework, a California company that specializes in “co-warehousing” bought the 203,000-square-foot store at the mall, according to CoStar Group, a real estate data provider. Borrowing from the co-working model, firms like Cubework lease small warehouse spaces to startups and entrepreneurs on flexible terms.
Cubework, which has four locations in the Chicago area, paid $4.3 million for the Sears store, about…