Other occupants for the Hanger One structure will be a bookstore and, provided negotiations go through, at the south end therewill be a Challenger Learning Center, a science education facilitythat uses space simulators to teach science, technology andmathematics. There might also be a small museum in Hanger One toillustrate its place in the history of aviation. Originally, theHanger was to have been converted into a multiscreen cinema, butthat plan has been shifted to a separate structure.

"The store will help ensure the preservation of Hanger One,which is on the National Register of Historic Places," says DonOwen, economic redevelopment direct of the Glen Town Center and theVillage of Glenview. "Von Maur will draw other strong retailers tothe Town Center [as well]." Construction of the store is slated tobegin in the summer of 2001 and may be finished in time for theholiday season of 2002.

This will be the third store in the Chicago area for the upscalechain, with others under development in the southwestern andwestern suburbs. All of its 14 stores are currently in the Midwest,including units in Indiana, Iowa and Nebraska as well asIlinois.