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Business Comings & Goings: Face-Lift for Food Court at Orland Square Mall

New name and look for Jordan's Pub. Great Escape closes outlet store. Tinley Irish Parade is next Sunday.

Orland Square Mall has started remodeling its food court as part of the mall’s face-lift that started last year. In addition to new tables and seating, the food court will be getting two new tenants when the overhaul is finished by the end of the April. Minnesota-based ChikWich is a restaurant that specializes in chicken sandwiches. The Orland location will be the chain’s first in Illinois and the first outside of Minnesota. The original location is in the Mall of America. Zoup! is a soup and sandwich shop that features a dozen rotating varieties every day. The company was founded in Michigan in 1998 and the Orland location will be the chain’s third in the Chicago area. Two new stores are also expected to open this spring at Orland Square …

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Business Comings & Goings: Community Mazda Now Open in Tinley Park

All five Fashion Bug stores in Southland closing, including Orland Hills • Skyn Spa opens in Orland • Italio Modern Italian Kitchen restaurant coming to Orland Park Place • Cooper's Hawk adds brunch • Middle Eastern bakery opens.

Community Mazda has completed its move from its longtime home in Oak Forest to its new home at 8325 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. For information, visit Community Mazda of Tinley Park or check out the dealer’s Facebook page. Fashion Bug, a national retail chain that carries women’s fashions in sizes 6 to 30 and caters to plus-size women, is being phased out by its new corporate parent Ascena Retail Group. Ascena earlier this year completed its buyout of Charming Shoppes Inc., which owns Fashion Bug, and now plans to close the remaining several hundred Fashion Bug stores by early next year. The Fashion Bug store at 9295 W. 159th St. in Orland Hills is among five Southland stores the retailer will be closing after the Christmas shopping …

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Business Comings & Goings: LBK Boutique Opens in Tinley Park

Cosi closes Orland Park location • Graystone Golf Links closes for good, becomes sod farm • Women's fashion and accessories store Love Culture sets up shop in Orland Square Mall • Orland Civic Center to hold open house.

If Lisa Kopas had not started selling wedding accessories online in 2005 the Tinley resident would never have dreamed of opening her own store, LBK Boutique, 7913 W. 171st St., in the Tinley Downs Shopping Center. “I would never have done it without having the online store,” she said. “But I was successful online and was determined to try and do this myself.” Kopas decided to open the brick and mortar version of LBK Boutique after she lost her job as a controller at a power plant in Ford Heights when it closed. Kopas, 45, opened the store last month and said business was great until a road and sewer construction project started at the intersection of 171st and 80th Avenue. “Business has been half of what it was,” she said. “We sell …

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Business Comings & Goings: Office Depot Moving From Orland Park Place

Little Joe's opens third location, Orland Township to host a free job fair at the township Activity Center and other business news.

Office Depot will be closing its store at Orland Park Place on Dec. 12 and is expected to move sometime in 2013 into a much smaller space across the street in Ravinia Plaza. The move is part of the office supply retailer’s move away from larger stores into much smaller stores. “During the past few years, Office Depot has been focused on improving the in-store shopping experience for our customers by remodeling stores into a smaller format, which makes them more intimate and easier to navigate,” Office Depot communications manager Julianne Carelli said in an email. “The current store is nearly 22,000 square feet and does not fit in with our new format plans. “The relocated, smaller format store will be about 7,000 square feet and is …

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Business Comings & Goings: Peppo’s Dili-Deli Coming to Tinley

Also in this week's business roundup: Smoothie shop Red Mango set to open in the first week of October in Orland Park • New Dave & Busters starts the fun and games Saturday • BMW of Orland Park holds official grand opening Thursday.

Peppo’s Dili-Deli, a popular sub shop since 1976 in Palos Hills, is coming to 6905 W. 159th St. in Tinley Park. “We’re hoping to be open in early October,” said Robert Peplowski, 28, a partner in the business and the son of its founder, Jim Peplowski. Both men live in New Lenox. “We’ll have the same menu as the Palos Hills location,” said Peplowski, who added that the sub shop might have additional expansion plans in mind. “If it works out in Tinley, we’ll open more,” he said. “We’ll continue to move south.” The Tinley location will employ about 10 people, Peplowski said. “We’re now taking applications online.” For information, call 708-237-1755 or visit online at Peppo’s Dili-Deli or check out the sub shop's Facebook page. Red Mango, a …

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Cheesecake Factory Opening in Orland Park

Restaurant is planning to open up in the current Jos. A. Bank space within Orland Square Mall by the end of the year.

Update, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012: The Cheesecake Factory allowed people in for a test run before their Dec. 5 opening. Check out photos of the decor, and food, as well as more information about the new restaurant. Original Post: Orland Park will soon be adding a new restaurant to its roster off LaGrange Road with the addition of The Cheesecake Factory. The company’s petition to set up shop in the space now occupied by Jos. A. Bank in Orland Square Mall’s lower level was announced at Monday night’s village board meeting. The men’s clothing store will be moving to the former Ruby Tuesday space attached to the mall. The space will be built out to accommodate the restaurant’s theme, and is planned to take up about 11,000 square feet of space. The…

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Who Wants Free Pizza for a Year?

Orland Park's new Cici's Pizza gives free monthly buffet to the first 100 diners today.

If you like pizza and you like buffets, we have the place that's right for you. A CiCi's Pizza will open its doors Monday at 11 a.m. at 9218 W. 159th St. in the Park Hill Plaza center in Orland Park. The owners are from Orland Park and Tinley Park. Texas-based CiCi's is a pizza buffet restaurant, and the first 100 to buy a buffet on opening day will win a free buffet each month for the coming year. The restaurant's hours will be Sunday through Thursday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. “This really is a dream come true for us. I think it’s the American dream to go from a corporate position to owning your own business," said Matt Eichberger of Tinley Park. His co-owner, Sagar Patel, is from Orland Park…

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CiCi’s Pizza Opens Monday in Orland Park

College friends from Orland and Tinley collaborate on their first restaurant.

Matt Eichberger and Sagar Patel have both sat in the manager’s chair of a dining establishment before. Patel and Eichberger managed a Dunkin Donuts while attending the University of Illinois at Chicago. The two met when they were assigned as roommates upon first going to school.   Following college, Eichberger went to work at Starcom USA, a large international ad agency and media company. But when the opportunity arose for him and Patel to start a business, Eichberger decided working in a cubicle wasn’t for him anymore. “We always wanted to bring something to this community, with Sagar from Orland Park and I’m from Tinley,” Eichberger said. “This really is a dream come true for us. I think it’s the American dream to go from a corporate …

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