Woodfire chicken return please.

Thrift store (Goodwill or Salvation Army) with clothing, furniture, household decor

The mall needs two strong anchors like Mariano's and Von Maur or Bloomingdales or Nordstrom. Add a mix of cute boutiques, children's stores, casual restaurants and a tot's play area and you'll have a thriving area. When the library moves back, ask Dominick's to reconsider a store in that area.

Portillo's restaurant.

Portillos!!!

Michael's Crafts or Hobby Lobby!

Portillo's restaurant!!!!!!!!!! or indoor dog park and play, kids soccer field, somthing to bring the family too.

IKEA

None of the stores listed in the survey have a chance of making it in this location. This is a tough location and the only thing that can make it work is a destination that people want to go to. I agree something family oriented would be the best bet and Portillo's is one of the few resturants that would have a chance there, as people should go out of their way to go there.

We have plenty of childrens stores and do not need anymore. The big stores could not make it there. See Fields in Lake Forest and Sax in HP also you have Northbrook Mall next door! Boutiques are not suited to this space although it could be torn down and redeveloped into another little strip mall with the usual stores that go in and out of business:)

Again this was a no brainer and the only mystery is how Office Depot lasted as long as they did. If they were not a chain they would have disappeared long ago.

How about a mattress superstore?

How about...................."GAMEWORKS". Just like the one in schaumburg. That place is awsome. We showed up one time with our kid after 9:00 pm on a weekend and they didn't let us in because it was over 21 after that time. Genious.

The amount of parking really limits what could go in the existing space. It most likely will have to be torn down for whatever would go there. I think fast food could do well there, but McDonald's wouldn't be happy about that.

Strip club with a full service bar would be perfect.

Aldi. Seriously, it's about the right size and despite our demographics, people still like to save money. The nearest may be Niles, Palatine or Mundelein.

Hey Steve S, and Mesh, happy New year!
Call Moe a dreamer, but I always want to see a strip mall(and no, not a strip club mall) that had a new concept in what people could really use. A common area where you could have work stations, like kinkos. Arcade for kids in the day. Laundrymat, coffee shop, tavern, buffet as well as finer dining, open to outside vending on weekend( flea+antique), and other small fun businesses that can't afford high rent. Get the buzz going, and make deerbrook mall the hip place to be again(like the old"Venture" days)

P.s. Aldi and a sugarshack are welcome too!

Maybe they could build another building next to it? That way it won't be lonely

It doesn't matter what they put there - unless you're heading northbound, getting in to the lot is extremely difficult. Getting out after you're done shopping is just as bad (even if you're heading northbound).

Leave it as green space - or use it for storm water retention.

If they build an Aldi or a thrift store, your $400,000 Deerfield home is worth $300,000 overnight.

Honestly, that is a great strip club location.

Let's start with an incredibly simple idea. I get the feeling that's all the planning the village board can handle.

How about something that's not a direct competitor of a business directly across the street?

How about a fitness club? Fitness 19 left Northbrook maybe they could come back.

Moe's bad. I was confused and forgot their was a office depot there. I was thinking of officeMax. Silly me. Anywho, that's a horrible location for anything. Sorry folks, I thought we were going to revive deerbrook mall. Make it the new DMV (secretary of the state). Then we have to go there.

They should make something unique and different-build it and they will come. A place like in Rosemont where they have restaurants in a square and in the middle is an ice rink. Something along those lines- with parking!

Please no strip club. Very bad idea.