Less shopping and more business. That could be the future for the upper floors of Chicago's iconic Water Tower Place.

Townsend lived in a hardscrabble loft in Olneyville’s Eagle Square in a mill called Fort Thunder. From there, he and ...

In a stark contrast for a shopping mall with high vacancy rates at times over the past decades, Semnani said, many of the long-empty spaces in Trolley Square are now on track to fill up.