“It’s frustrating,” said vendor Sarfraz Satti. “We don’t know if we are going to open the store tomorrow or if they are going to tell us they give us a week to take your merchandise and get out.”
After two years of uncertainty, the fate of vendors at the Discount Mall in Little Village is still unknown.Street in Little Village as customers navigate through the aisles and vendors work to land a sale. But the merchants don’t know how long they’ll have to actually run their businesses.Novak Construction bought the property back in 2020 and vendors say the mall’s contract is set to expire at the end of the month.
“It’s frustrating,” Satti said. “We don’t know if we are going to open the store tomorrow or if they are going to tell us they give us a week to take your merchandise and get out.” Gutierrez and her husband have been running an electronic shop for more than 20 years. She says they’ve basically raised their kids in the mall.
“Here in Little Village we do have the sale of Discount Mall, you have the proposal for El Paseo bike path, you have the recent acquisition with the Target and Hilco, and you have the Chamber of Commerce corridor rejuvenation of 26th Street,” Reynoso said. “All four of those things are great but they don’t provide the protections to keep the people who live here here … because unless they provide rent protection, property tax protection you’re not going to be here to enjoy the amenities.
Ald. George Cardenas represents the area where the mall is located. He says he hasn’t heard from Novak.
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