Regions Southeast
Orlando's First Nordstrom Rack to Anchor New 100,000SF Shopping Center
July 3, 2008

Millennia Crossing, a 100,000-square-foot shopping center scheduled to debut in Orlando, Fla. next spring, will become the home of the city's first Nordstrom Rack and the State of Florida's second such store. The off-price retail division of fashion specialty retailer Nordstrom Inc. will set up shop in a 35,000-square-foot space at the open-air property that is being developed by Madison, Wis.-based E.J. Plesko & Associates Inc. Madison Marquette orchestrated the transaction on behalf of the property owner.

 
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