By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy
Orland Square Mall has installed two 240-volt charging stations for electric cars in the mall’s upper-level parking lot between Macy’s and Carson’s.
350Green from San Diego has been installing charging stations at malls and stores across the country and announced plans earlier this year to install 280 stations in the Chicago area.
Charging stations have also been installed at River Oaks Center in Calumet City and North Ridge Plaza in Joliet. North Ridge, River Oaks and Orland Square are all owned by Simon Property Group.
350Green also has installed a station at a Walgreens in Park Forest.
The Learning Curve Fails
Learning Curve, an educational service, closed recently at 17101 W. 183rd St. in Tinley Park’s Convention Plaza.
Shell Station Changes Hands
A Shell gas station and convenience store at 14301 S. Wolf Road in Orland Park was sold for $1.2 million in late September.
Silver Lake to Add Practice Facility
Silver Lake Country Club, 14700 S. 82nd Ave. in Orland Park, has started construction on a new practice facility expected to open in the spring. The facility will include a public driving range and short-game practice area. The country club features two 18-hole courses and a 9-hole course.
Closed for the Season
Whitey’s Dairy Palace, 16860 S. Oak Park Ave. in Tinley Park, has closed for the winter.
Bears deal of the weekend
Enjoy the Bears final home game of the season at Jordan’s Pub, 13500 S. Harlem Ave. in Orland Park, which serves a free halftime buffet during Bears games. The phone number is 708-460-8330. Its website is http://www.jordanspub.com/.
About Me
- Bob Bong
- I have more than 40 years in the news business and have successfully evolved into an electronic journalist. Comings & Goings and Southland Savvy track news about businesses in Chicago's Southland.
Sears Outlet to Open Friday
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| Sears Outlet store now open in Tinley Park. |
By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy
The new Sears Outlet store soft opened on Monday and will hold its official opening Friday at 16040 S. Harlem Ave. in Tinley Park.
The 24,000 square foot store is in the former Bally Fitness center. The store will carry its usual line of discontinued, used, scratched and dented merchandise as well as new merchandise.
Hours will be 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sundays.
The phone number is 708-429-9428 and its website is http://www.searsoutlet.com/
Fudgi Island Cookies Crumbles
The Fudgi Island Cookie Co. closed recently at 17133 S. 88th Avenue in Tinley Park. The sweet shop opened in October 2009 and sold ice cream as well as its unique Fudgi Island cookies. The phone number has been disconnected and its website has been taken down.
In fact, the Chase Commons Retail Center where Fudgi Island was located is completely empty, a rarity even in these tough times.
Marquette Bank Names Manager
Barbara Langnes has recently been named manager of Marquette Bank’s two Orland Park locations, 9612 W. 143rd St. and 9533 W. 143rd St.
Call One Grand Opening
Call One celebrated the opening of its new office at 11524 W. 183rd St. in Orland Park with a ribbon cutting today.
Creative Cakes Knows There's No Business Like Show Business
By Bob Bong
Southland Savvy
Tinley Park’s Creative Cakes bakery is well known locally for its fantastic wedding cakes.
Now the bakery owned by sisters Becky Palermo and Beth Fahey is hoping to broaden that name recognition with an edible version of a Christmas icon: a life-size cake in the shape of the leg lamp from the classic holiday film “A Christmas Story.”
The cake will be part of the Wednesday night opening of “A Christmas Story, the Musical” at the Chicago Theatre. The musical based on the movie and produced by a grown up Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) runs from Dec. 14 to Dec. 30.
“We were contacted by the production company to produce a cake in the shape of the leg lamp,” said Palermo.
When completed, the cake will stand about five feet high, Palermo said.
“The shade is about a foot and a half high,” she said. “It’s made from chiffon cake with raspberry and lemon mousse.
“The leg is 35 inches long and made from modeling chocolate because it has to stand up,” she said.
“Then it will stand on a crate with the word FRAGILE, which is made from red velvet and white cake.” The crate will be decorated with images from the show and movie such as a Red Ryder BB gun, Ralphie’s stepped on glasses, pink bunny slippers and a bar of Lifebuoy soap.
Palermo said 17 employees from the bakery at 16649 Oak Park Ave. are going with her and her sister to Wednesday night’s opening. “We took the tickets as partial payment for the cake,” she said.
“We’ll cut the cake for them,” said Palermo adding the lampshade and crate will be the best tasting parts of the unique creation.
How much for such a custom cake?
“If someone just came in and ordered it, the man hours alone would push the price to $2,000-$3,000,” she said adding the cake is the most extreme stunt cake the sisters have produced.
“We’re doing it to help get our name out there,” she said.
For information on Creative Cakes, call 708-614-9755 or visit them online at http://www.realbuttercream.com/
For tickets to “A Christmas Story, the Musical,” call 1-866-809-3075 or 312-423-6612 or visit http://www.thechicagotheatre.com/tickets/
Southland Savvy
Now the bakery owned by sisters Becky Palermo and Beth Fahey is hoping to broaden that name recognition with an edible version of a Christmas icon: a life-size cake in the shape of the leg lamp from the classic holiday film “A Christmas Story.”
The cake will be part of the Wednesday night opening of “A Christmas Story, the Musical” at the Chicago Theatre. The musical based on the movie and produced by a grown up Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) runs from Dec. 14 to Dec. 30.
“We were contacted by the production company to produce a cake in the shape of the leg lamp,” said Palermo.
When completed, the cake will stand about five feet high, Palermo said.
“The shade is about a foot and a half high,” she said. “It’s made from chiffon cake with raspberry and lemon mousse.
“The leg is 35 inches long and made from modeling chocolate because it has to stand up,” she said.
“Then it will stand on a crate with the word FRAGILE, which is made from red velvet and white cake.” The crate will be decorated with images from the show and movie such as a Red Ryder BB gun, Ralphie’s stepped on glasses, pink bunny slippers and a bar of Lifebuoy soap.
Palermo said 17 employees from the bakery at 16649 Oak Park Ave. are going with her and her sister to Wednesday night’s opening. “We took the tickets as partial payment for the cake,” she said.
“We’ll cut the cake for them,” said Palermo adding the lampshade and crate will be the best tasting parts of the unique creation.
How much for such a custom cake?
“If someone just came in and ordered it, the man hours alone would push the price to $2,000-$3,000,” she said adding the cake is the most extreme stunt cake the sisters have produced.
“We’re doing it to help get our name out there,” she said.
For information on Creative Cakes, call 708-614-9755 or visit them online at http://www.realbuttercream.com/
For tickets to “A Christmas Story, the Musical,” call 1-866-809-3075 or 312-423-6612 or visit http://www.thechicagotheatre.com/tickets/
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