When the Marshall Field & Company opened the Merchandise Mart in 1930, the Art Deco building’s four million square feet made it the largest building in the world for 14 years. Today, half of its space contains wholesale showrooms that are not open to the public. Each year it hosts over 1,000 exhibitors at NeoCon, which is the National Exposition of Contract Furnishings. And since 1991 it is also home to The Shops at the Mart.
