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In 1997, the F. W. Woolworth chain closed the last of its stores, leaving a large vacancy in the northern wing. Three years later, Montgomery Ward closed the last of its stores as well. Also in 1999, Value City acquired the Crowley's location at Universal Mall and two other Detroit-area malls and renamed them Crowley's Value City before ...
The Lower Woodward Avenue Historic District, also known as Merchant's Row, is a mixed-use retail, commercial, and residential district in downtown Detroit, Michigan, located between Campus Martius Park and Grand Circus Park Historic District at 1201 through 1449 Woodward Avenue (two blocks between State Street to Clifford Street) and 1400 through 1456 Woodward Avenue (one block between Grand ...
The company began its transformation from a single store to a chain in 1959 when Crowley's expanded to the Detroit suburbs by opening its first store in the Westborn Shopping Center in Dearborn. This was followed by a store in the Grand River/Greenfield shopping area in northwest Detroit in 1960 and identical stores in the Livonia and Macomb ...
Despite surviving a pandemic, other Detroit retail store owners also had a reckoning. In early 2022, Hugh, the design housewares, accessories and furniture shop in Midtown, closed .
F. C. Nash & Co. – Nash's (Pasadena), at one time had 5 stores in downtown locations in neighboring small cities during the 1950s and 1960s, founded in 1889 as a grocery store, became a department store in 1921, branch stores were unable to compete with larger chains opening in malls built in the late 1960s and early 1970s and had to be ...
The Mall at Partridge Creek is an open-air shopping center in Clinton Township, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, United States. The mall opened to the public on October 18, 2007. The mall opened to the public on October 18, 2007.
In 2015, former Detroit Free Press journalist Robert Allen took a deep dive into the history and significance of ghost signs, ultimately publishing his book "Fading Ads of Detroit" in 2018.
West side of Broadway. The Broadway Avenue Historic District contains eleven commercial buildings built between 1896 and 1926. [2] Three of those buildings — the Cary Building and the Breitmeyer–Tobin Building at the southern end, and the Merchants Building at the north end — are listed on the National Register of Historic Places in their own right.