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Higgins Lake is located along the western shores of Higgins Lake. The community is near U.S. Route 127 to the west, and Interstate 75 is to the east on the opposite side of the lake. Nearby parks include North Higgins Lake State Park to the north and South Higgins Lake State Park to the south. The community is served by Roscommon Area Public ...
The original Montgomery Ward & Co. was a mail-order business and later a department store chain that operated between 1872 and 2001. The current Montgomery Ward Inc. is an online shopping and mail-order catalog retailer that started several years after the original Montgomery Ward shut down.
Artesia Beach is an unincorporated community located at The community is located along the southwestern shores of Lake St. Helen and extends into Richfield Township. [3]Moore is a former settlement along the Mackinac division of the Michigan Central Railroad that began in 1890 about 8.0 miles (12.9 km) northwest of St. Helen.
At the time of opening in September 1959, the Montgomery Ward store at Wonderland Center was the largest in the chain. [2] One month later, Federal's opened for business as well. The store was the 31st in that chain. [3] In 1983, Schostak converted Wonderland from an open-air complex to an enclosed shopping mall.
[5] [9] Plans were also made to divide the former Montgomery Ward space into smaller shops. [10] Eventually, occupancy at Universal Mall rebounded to 75%, [5] although by 2007 it had declined to 48% (in part due to the closure of Mervyns' Michigan operations in 2006). [11]
A mezzanine level with a food court was added in 1987. The Cunningham Drug Store was demolished for a wing featuring a Mervyns in 1993, Montgomery Ward was also added. These additions brought the mall to 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2) of gross leasable area, making it the largest mall in Michigan north of Detroit. [6]
The Michigan Road was built from the Ohio River at Madison, through Indianapolis through Plymouth and South Bend to Lake Michigan in the 1800s. It had a right-of-way of 100 feet (30 m). In Plymouth, main commercial blocks formed along the line of the right-of-way. Michigan Street was and remains the principal commercial corridor. [3]
Summit Place Mall, originally Pontiac Mall, was a shopping mall in Waterford Township, Michigan, United States.Opened in 1962 as the first enclosed mall in Michigan, [1] [3] it was built on a 74-acre (30 ha) site.