Great Lakes Crossing

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Great Lakes Crossing

Location	Auburn Hills, Michigan, United States
Opening date	1998
Developer	Taubman Centers
Management	Taubman Centers
Owner	Taubman Centers
No. of stores and services	180
No. of anchor tenants	9
Total retail floor area	1,400,000 ft²
No. of floors	1
Website	http://shopgreatlakescrossing.com

Great Lakes Crossing is an enclosed shopping mall located in the city of Auburn Hills, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. Developed and owned by Taubman Centers, Great Lakes Crossing features over 180 stores and restaurants, a food court, and a 25-screen Star movie theater. Anchor stores of the mall include Bed Bath & Beyond, Burlington Coat Factory, Bass Pro Shops, The Children's Place Outlet, Marshalls, Neiman Marcus Last Call Clearance Center, Off 5th, The Sports Authority, and TJ Maxx.

Contents 1 History 2 References 3 See also 4 External links

[edit] History

In 1991, the Mills Corporation planned to open a 2 million square foot shopping mall, called Auburn Mills, near wetlands along Baldwin and Joslyn Roads in the Auburn Hills area.^[1] The planned mall never came to fruition, however, due to local opposition.^[2] Later on, Taubman Corporation presented its own plans for an outlet mall to be built on the site where Auburn Mills would have been built. Taubman's mall, dubbed Great Lakes Crossing, was similar in design to the proposed Auburn Mills mall; however, Great Lakes Crossing featured a smaller design that proved to be less intrusive on adjacent wetlands.^[2]

The mall, with a design scheme based on Michigan's outdoors, opened on November 18, 1998 with over 200 stores laid out in a mile-long racetrack layout. In addition, the shopping center brought several "firsts" to the state of Michigan^[3], including Bass Pro Shops, GameWorks, Neiman Marcus Last Call Clearance Center, and Rainforest Cafe, as well as the first mall-based location for discount sportswear chain Steve & Barry's.^[4][5] In addition, Great Lakes Crossing included a food court and 25-screen AMC movie theater. Despite bringing such "firsts" to its market, Great Lakes Crossing featured several vacancies from the start.^{[citation needed]}

J. C. Penney closed its outlet store at the mall in April 2002.^[6] Since the store's closure, Circuit City had occupied a large portion of the former JCPenney Outlet until its own closure in late 2008. H&M now occupies 25 percent of the former J.C. Penney Outlet space since opening in June 2007. The remainder of the J.C. Penny space is currently under construction and will feature a 22,000+ square foot, 650 seat Toby Keith "I Love This Bar & Grill". Sportmart was acquired by Sports Authority and re-named; and Steve & Barry's closed in 2007 and was replaced by Urban Behavior. A Coach Factory Outlet store is currently under construction in District 3, a BCBG Max Azria store is under construction next door to Coach, both expected to open in the last quarter of '09.

In 2009, it was announced that Capri Restaurant Group Enterprises LLC, a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based business, is planning to open another Toby Keith's I Love This Bar & Grill location. ^[7]

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• Architecture of metropolitan Detroit
• Metro Detroit
• Tourism in metropolitan Detroit

[edit] External links

• Shop Great Lakes Crossing Official Site

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Coordinates: 42°42′9″N 83°17′57″W / 42.7025°N 83.29917°W / 42.7025; -83.29917