Reports: Ulta in Naperville to close at end of month; popular jewelry retailer to open nearby

Michael Johnson
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. — Downtown Naperville will be losing a popular beauty store at the end of the month but gaining a popular jewelry retailer this summer.

According to a recent Chicago Tribune report, the Ulta Beauty store at 103 South Washington Street will close at the end of the month. The report says March 30 will be the store’s last day because it has reached the end of its lease at that location.

However, the report says, the other Ulta location in Naperville — located at West Ridge Court, 2707 Aurora Avenue — does not plan to close.

“We look forward to welcoming guests,” an Ulta spokesperson said of that location, according to the report.

Headquartered in Bolingbrook, Ulta is the nation’s largest beauty chain. It operates over 1,300 stores across the country, including 43 in Chicagoland alone, according to its website.

Meanwhile, a Kendra Scott jewelry store will be among the retailers being added to Naperville’s Main Street Promenade, according to a report earlier this month from Naperville Community Television.

Naperville Mayor Scott Wehrli and Naperville Development Partnership President Christine Jeffries, the report says, announced the addition of the Kendra Scott store to Main Street Promenade during the 2024 Naperville State of the Real Estate event earlier this month, hosted by the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce.

According to a Daily Herald report from last week, the Kendra Scott store is slated to open early this summer.

Last summer, an annual report from Chicago retail consultant firm Melaniphy & Associates said Naperville continues to lead suburban Chicago in retail sales, calling it “the retail mecca” of the suburbs, according to a Tribune report.

However, Naperville has seen some storefronts vacated recently along high-profile Washington Street. Ulta joins Barnes & Noble, which closed in January after 25 years downtown, in leaving the street, the Daily Herald notes.

“I think a lot of the large national retailers are looking at their retail footprint to determine what’s going to be best for them, as they are in a new economy,” Wehrli said in the report. “I think the space they are leaving is going to be a highly desirable spot in our downtown, and I look forward to filling it soon.”

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