Orland Plaza Businesses Moving On
With the opening of Orland Park Bakery’s new location last week, we also look at where other Plaza businesses have, or are planning to, set back up shop.
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Judy Culich has been a long time regular customer of Orland Park Bakery, especially for the cinnamon raisin bread.
“I can’t come home without it,” Culich said, a few minutes before she picked up her first loaf from the bakery’s new location at 14850 S. LaGrange Road.
Culich, an Oak Forest resident, has been coming to the bakery since she first moved to the area in 1987, relying on the bakery not just for their skills with bread.
“I’ve always gotten fabulous service here,” Culich said. “That’s one of the reasons why we get our birthday cakes here.”
On Friday, she was among dozens of supporters flowing steadily in and out of the bakery, fresh goods in tow, as a grand opening at the new location was held.
With the help of state and federally mandated payout money from the Village of Orland Park, as part of an eminent domain agreement to take over the Orland Plaza on Feb. 14, the bakery was able to expand into a larger space.
The new space is about 6,400 square-feet compared to the 3,750 square-foot former home in the Orland Plaza for the last 40 years. While the new space is larger and more open than their former location, the signature smells of fresh pastries, breads, cookies, cakes and other baked goods already permeated the store front Friday morning.
“It’s a really good and rewarding feeling to see so many customers come with us,” said general manager Dan Major. “This is better than we expected, and more than what we hoped for.”
Plans for the Other Businesses
The florist will be reopening in March at 11229 W. 143rd Street, just west of Wolf Road near CVS Pharmacy. The business was allowed to stay in the plaza through February into March to not interfere with important Valentine’s Day sales, according to village documents.
The store will be moving to 14428 S. John Humphrey Drive, within the same plaza as Café Gaston, Chicago Reptile House and Tonino’s Pizza. Call 708-349-7941 for more information.
The jewelry store, appraiser and repair service is moving to 9428 W. 143rd Street, on the east side of LaGrange Road.
For information, call 708-302-9190.
Norman’s Cleaners and Formal Wear
The business has spread current transactions out among its four other area locations, including three in Orland Park (8110 143rd Street, 14302 Will Cook Road and 15872 Wolf Road) and one in Tinley Park at 17702 Oak Park Avenue. Their seamstress is located at the Tinley Park store.
The shoe store is temporarily located at 16131 S. LaGrange Road, the former site of a New Balance shoe store that moved across the street. Plans are underway to build a new four-unit shopping plaza on the northwest corner of LaGrange Road and 144th Place, where Miroballi Shoes will permanently relocate.
The café has moved to Oak Lawn where it was renamed Stacked, though working with the same staff as before. The menu has also been updated.
Earlier in 2011, the barber shop moved to 14436 S. John Humphrey Drive, and dropped the “Plaza” from its original name.
The business reopened at 16309 S. 107th Avenue.
Left for Willow Springs.
Randy’s Market, Kosnar Liquors and Lang Lee II closed in 2011.
Gee-Schussler Insurance and Marquette Bank can remain until 2014.
READ ON for our guide on the various aspects of Orland Plaza and the Main Street Triangle.
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Orland Park Bakery
14850 S la Grange Rd, Orland Park, IL -
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Knitting Etc
14428 John Humphrey Dr, Orland Park, IL -
Syman Jewelers
9428 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
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Tri-City Electric
9638 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
Frontier Construction Inc.
9638 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
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Gee Insurance
9614 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
Marquette Bank
9533 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
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Lang Lee II Restaurant
9650 W 143rd St, Orland Park, IL -
Cafe Gaston
14438 John Humphrey Dr, Orland Park, IL -
Chicago Reptile House
14416 John Humphrey Dr, Orland Park, IL -
Tonino's Pizza
14420 John Humphrey Dr, Orland Park, IL
Sue N.
9:23 am on Monday, February 13, 2012
Best of Luck and Great Success to all the Orland Plaza Tennents and their Employees!! So glad the florist was allowed to stay longer. Still heart broken over the loss of Randys and Lang Lees. My closest aunt, who was also like my grandmother, passed away a year ago today. I was just re-reading captions of picture I posted in her memory. One of them talked about how I would always remember her whenever I had Lang Lees. It was one of her favorites. She would drive all the way from Burbank for it. So not only will I miss not being able to have the best chinese food, but my importantly, I will never be able to recapture her memory there like I thought I would be able too. I know, life goes on, but the anniversary of her death being today and this article coming out, just makes this all a little harder for me today & brings up all those bad memories of how wrong this plaza was taken over.
But Thank You Ben & Patch for giving us the update on where everyone else is going:-)
Ben Feldheim
10:25 am on Monday, February 13, 2012
Sue, I'm sorry for your loss, and thank you for sharing this.
Judy Makar
12:18 pm on Monday, February 13, 2012
I think this lady put it well - heartbroken. I must admit after my anger, it really had to do with a loss of something good in Orland Park. Yes, yes, I know, enough said about the wisdom of the decision, but looking around at similar attempts by villages, it has not been good. So for what? A mayor's pyramid?
Rita Feigl
6:35 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2012
Do you know why both Lang Lee Restaurant in Orland Park and Lang Lee 2 Go in Frankfort/Mokena both closed without any mention in local media?
Ben Feldheim
11:42 pm on Saturday, February 18, 2012
Rita, while we were profiling the various Plaza businesses, we had approached Lang Lee about a similar story on them. A manager expressed interest at first, and then we never heard back from them. We didn't know their exact closing date until after they had shut doors.