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Forest Park Mall

From the authors' mapReinhabitedRetrofit builtForest Park, IL

Reinhabited in 1997. · from the fields below

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Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/116035151758544 overture · all sites with this

Website dead or redirecting

This site: …http://www.livingwd.org overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

100k+ jobs within 45 min by transit

This site: 320,275 epa-walkability · all sites with this

15-minute neighbourhood (5+ of 6 daily needs within 800 m)

This site: 6/6 openstreetmap · all sites with this

County lost 10%+ of retail establishments since 2012

This site: -11% census-cbp · all sites with this

County permitting 2,000+ apartment units a year

This site: 4,853 units, Cook County census-bps · all sites with this

County typical rent $2,000+

This site: $2,228/mo zillow · all sites with this

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 4 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High heat wave risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

High inland flooding risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

High natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)

This site: Relatively High; tornado, inland flooding, heat wave, cold wave fema-nri · all sites with this

High social vulnerability tract (SVI ≥ 0.75)

This site: 0.79 cdc-svi · all sites with this

High tornado risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

Shrinking county

This site: -0.7% census-acs · all sites with this

Walkable block group (EPA ≥ 12)

This site: …index 17.2 epa-walkability · all sites with this

Scale

Building footprint 50,000+ m²

This site: 64,290 m² overture · all sites with this

Strategy

Reinhabited

This site: Reinhabitation: retail and religious record · all sites with this

New use

Retail (continued)

This site: Reinhabitation: retail and religious arcgis-webmap · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

IL, Forest Park: Forest Park Mall/ Living Word Christian Center, 1997
• Reinhabitation: retail and religious

Now

Status	Retrofit builtderived from authors' map (retrofit year present) reported
Strategy	Reinhabitedauthors' map reported
What is there now	Reinhabitation: retail and religiousauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	1997authors' map reported

Links out

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Official records (8)

government and regulatory records for this site, built from ids on the record

EDGAR filer · Kimco Realty Corp (Kim, Kim-Pl, Kim-Pm, Kim-Pn)from sec.gov
Filing 0001437749-16-026173 (10-K)from sec.gov
EDGAR full-text search: “Forest Park Mall”from city search
Census tract 17031816100 profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
Census tract 17031816100 on Census Reporterfrom censusreporter.org
Cook County (17031) profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
FEMA flood map (NFHL) at this point (search)from msc.fema.gov
EPA ECHO facilities within 1 milefrom echo.epa.gov

Reference (3)

encyclopedic and research references

Wikimedia Commons photos within 500 mfrom commons.wikimedia.org
Retrofitting Suburbia (book site)from retrofittingsuburbia.com
Forest Park, Illinois on Wikipediafrom en.wikipedia.org

Place (8)

map and street views by coordinates

Google Mapsfrom google.com
Street Viewfrom google.com
Bing Mapsfrom bing.com
Apple Mapsfrom maps.apple.com
OpenStreetMapfrom openstreetmap.org
Walk Score at this pointfrom walkscore.com
Transitland mapfrom transit.land
USGS National Mapfrom apps.nationalmap.gov

Market (2)

listings and owner pages; commercial, so search engines are told not to follow

LoopNet: for sale in Forest Park, IL (search)from city search
DeadMalls.com · Forest Park Mallfrom deadmalls.com

News (2)

news searches and archived pages

Google News: “Forest Park Mall” (search)from name search
Bing News: “Forest Park Mall” (search)from name search

History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Living Word Christian Center
County	Cook County
Census division	3 · East North Central

Not yet recorded: acres, GLA, year opened, original developer. Know it? Tell us.

Planning

No zoning change, subsidy or policy tool recorded for this site.

Securitised debt and public filers

Filings (2001 to date) that name “Forest Park Mall” and “Forest Park” (3 hits, first 3 sampled, 1 other filers such as tenants left out). No commercial-mortgage trust names this mall in the sample, which does not rule out a securitised loan. Text matches, not a title search. Open the search · all trusts.

Kind	Filer	Filings	Dates	Forms
Public owner (weak)	KIMCO REALTY CORP (KIM, KIM-PL, KIM-PM, KIM-PN)	2	2015-02-27 to 2016-02-26	10-K 2

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	15: 7 ELEVEN 26063; ARMY RESERVE CTR; BLUE CAB CO/M&C MOTORS; COURTESY HOME CENTER; E&F COACH PARTS INCEPA FRS
Census tract 17031816100	5,679 people, 2,403 per sq mi; median household income $62,389; median gross rent $1,309; 40% renters; 10.4% vacant units; 14.7% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 17.2 of 20; 133 intersections per sq mi; nearest transit stop 284 m; land-use mix 0.83; 428,090 jobs within 45 min by car, 320,275 by transit; 13% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	6 of 6 daily needs: 4 grocers, 4 schools, 5 parks or playgrounds, 1 health, 1 civic, 13 food and drink; 2 cycleway segments, 242 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Cook County (IL), 2024	4,853 units in 5+ unit buildings, 512 in 2–4, 1,142 single-family; 2023: 3,332 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.79; socioeconomic 0.64; housing and transport 0.87; 19% below 150% of poverty; 12% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	2 within 10 km, 27 within 25 km: Sears (lower level) at North Riverside Park Mall (1.8 km); The Brickyard (7.4 km)computed
Overture Maps	place Living Word Christian Center (christian_place_of_worship, confidence 0.98, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 64,290 m², 11.5 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.livingwd.org (down or redirecting, status 403) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Tract change 2013–2023	population -10% (6,313 → 5,679); median income +11% ($56,136 → $62,389); renters 38% → 40%; median home value +33% ($225,100 → $300,300)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively high overall (score 94.8); expected annual loss $3.8M; high: tornado, inland flooding, heat wave, cold wave; community resilience relatively highFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	213,302 jobs in 12,604 establishments; average annual pay $43,743; employment location quotient 0.83; employment -0.6% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	7,541 jobs; 1,345 in retail trade, 229 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 17031816100)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 40th income percentile as adults; 3.5% incarcerated at the 2010 count (722 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; 0% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 8.0%; median family income $81,641; 297 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Proviso Township High School District 209 (09-12); 6 public schools within 1 mile: Jefferson Elem School; Forest Park Middle School; Betsy Ross Elem School; Field Stevenson Elem SchoolNCES EDGE
Elevation	625 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	1,091 county-logged events: 620 thunderstorm wind, 164 hail, 133 flood, 82 flash flood; $1,049,471,000 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 60130, 2026-09	median list price $336,975 (-0.9% on the year); 29 active listings; median 36 days on market; 14% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	13,577 establishments (-11%); 214,575 jobs (-4%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $340,258 (+6% 1 yr, +23% 5 yr); typical rent $2,228/mo (+5% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2025	468 (2000 = 100); +6.2% 1 yr, +31% 5 yr, +54% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	25,444 vehicles a day on Roosevelt Rd (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 1,115 trucks; 12 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

Similar sites

Sears (lower level) at North Riverside Park Mall, North Riverside, IL · Big boxes · same strategy: reinhabit; also in IL; 2 km away
Sports Authority, Chicago, IL · Big boxes · same strategy: reinhabit; also in IL; 16 km away
Millennium On LaSalle, Chicago, IL · Office parks · same strategy: reinhabit; also in IL; 16 km away
1800 N. Clybourn, Chicago, IL · Malls · same strategy: reinhabit; also in IL; 14 km away

Elsewhere on the web

Retail history: Forest Park Mall on DeadMalls.com photos, field notes and visitor memories since 2000; matched by name and city; nothing copied here

Pages with photos

Forest Park Mall | This is the South East portion of the mal… flickr.com
Forest Park Mall Cinema in Fore… cinematreasures.org
HOBO Leaving Forest Park Mall, Landlord Says Impact 'Can Be Huge' - CBS ... cbsnews.com

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built

Inputs: record fields (size, status) and county Census ACS 2018–2023 figures (growth, rent). How the points work. Not a recommendation.

Timeline

1997 Retrofit: reinhabit

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "Forest Park Mall, Forest Park, IL." Record m-d2e7c68b84, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/il/forest-park-forest-park-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_forestparkforestparkmall,
  title = {Forest Park Mall, Forest Park, IL},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/il/forest-park-forest-park-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-d2e7c68b84, release 2026-10-21, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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