Rendering of the Nordstrom flagship store and its main entrance on 57th Street
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The Nordstrom family is scurrying to come up with more equity to take the retailer private as it struggles to raise financing for what could be a $10 billion leveraged buyout.
The family had originally planned to put up its 31 percent stake in the company, which as of Aug. 1 was valued at $2.5 billion, and private-equity firm Leonard Green & Partners was to contribute another $1 billion in equity, the Wall Street Journal reported.