Old Navy Opens In Morgan Park

CHICAGO - Mayor Rahm Emanuel was in the Morgan Park neighborhood Thursday morning to mark the opening of the sixth Old Navy store in the city of Chicago. The new retail store inside the Marshfield Plaza shopping center near 119th and Marshfield has brought 50 new jobs to the South Side, according to a news release from the Mayor's Office.

“This store will give residents the opportunity to shop in the neighborhood, create new jobs and marks another down-payment on the future of this great community,” Emanuel said of the new 11,600-square-foot store. “When we see growth, investments and opportunity, we want to make sure they are taking place in every neighborhood across Chicago.”

The store's opening was part of the city's Neighborhood Opportunity Fund, which the news release says leverages downtown development through voluntary contributions to create resources for commercial development in the city's communities of greatest need.

Sonia Syngal, President and CEO, Old Navy. “We’re grateful to Mayor Emanuel for his partnership through the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund – together we’re committed to helping revitalize the South Side of the city and deliver the democracy of style,” Sonia Syngal, president and CEO of Old Navy, said.

According to the news release, the new store features Old Navy’s latest store design, which includes kids’ tables with crayons and coloring sheets, a ball machine, a balloon stand and hopscotch.

The store will also offer the company’s latest in-store services like Buy Online., Pickup In-Store., Price Checkers, Mobile Point-of-Sale and Contactless Payments.

Photo courtesy of Walter Mitchell, City of Chicago