Southland Center (Michigan)
| Location | Taylor, Michigan, United States |
|---|---|
| Opening date | 1970 |
| Developer | J.L. Hudson Corporation |
| Management | Rouse Properties |
| Owner | Rouse Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 108 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in JCPenney, 3 in Macy's) |
| Website | http://www.shopsouthlandcenter.com/ |
Southland Center is an enclosed mall located at 23000 Eureka Road. in Taylor, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is the newest of the Detroit area's four "land" malls (Northland, Southland, Eastland, Westland). Southland Center opened on July 20, 1970. It is owned and managed by Rouse Properties, one of the largest mall owners in the United States.
[edit] History
Southland Center was designed by Victor Gruen Associates and Louis G. Redstone Associates[1]. When opened in 1970, Southland Mall consisted of three anchor stores: Hudson's at mall center, Woolworth's dime store, off the center court, and a Kroger supermarket on the eastern side. A two-screen movie theater was opened within weeks of the mall opening. Kroger built a new facility across Eureka Road in the mid-1970s, with JCPenney opening a store in a 1976 expansion that supplanted the former Kroger. Mervyns added a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) on the west end in 1985.
In 1988, The Rouse Company acquired the mall from its previous owners.[2] A food court called the Picnic Garden opened in 1993.[3] The mall's on-site theater closed in 1999[4] and was later replaced with Borders Books & Music. Hudson's was renamed Marshall Field's in 2001 and Macy's in 2006. Later in 2006, Mervyns exited Michigan and vacated its anchor in the mall. Best Buy subsequently moved into the mall in 2007, supplanting the food court.[5]
[edit] References
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- ^ "Investor Group acquires Ridgedale Mall,Southland Mall from Ridgedale Center Shopping Mall". Alacra Store. 20 October 1988. http://www.alacrastore.com/deal-snapshot/Investor_Group_acquires_Ridgedale_Mall_Southland_Mall_from_Ridgedale_Center_Shopping_Mall-14284. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ "Retail: Battling for shoppers: Metro Detroit's older malls fight for customers, survival: Competition, changing needs drive evolution in shopping". The Detroit News. 19 September 1999. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F7500B88332150E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ "Taylor cinema closes doors: AMC execs say they can't compete with megaplex theaters". The Detroit News. 27 January 1999. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=DTNB&s_site=detnews&f_site=detnews&f_sitename=Detroit+News%2C+The+%28MI%29&p_multi=DTNB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F75002D275553FE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
- ^ "TAYLOR: Owners of Southland Center file for bankruptcy". Southgate News Herald. 18 April 2009. http://www.thenewsherald.com/articles/2009/04/18/news/doc49e95177063d8410254254.txt. Retrieved 16 April 2010.
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Coordinates: 42°12′00″N 83°15′15″W / 42.200038°N 83.254201°W
