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A CompUSA store in Santa Clara, California, circa 2005. Founded in 1984 as Soft Warehouse in Addison, Texas, a northern suburb of Dallas, Texas, by Errol Jacobson and Mike Henochowicz, [3] the company began national expansion in 1988 with its first megastore opening in Atlanta, Georgia.
One Campus Martius is a building located in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It began construction in 2000 and was finished in 2003. It began construction in 2000 and was finished in 2003. It has seventeen floors in total, fifteen above-ground, and two below-ground, and has 1,088,000 square feet (100,000 m 2 ) of office space.
Computer City innovated a number of retail concepts that are now common retail practices. First begun at the Costa Mesa Incomp, the store hosted a professional service bureau called The Graphic Zone, that provided film and graphic services for the nascent desktop publishing industry, the store operated a cafe which served coffee and sandwiches to prolong shopping visits, and the store featured ...
After all The Good Guys stores closed, CompUSA began marketing all California and Hawaii stores as "CompUSA with The Good Guys Inside" in response to Best Buy's new marketing campaign "with Magnolia Inside". However, this marketing campaign was dropped in an attempt to further separate CompUSA from the Good Guys name, and assist in launching ...
Joseph Campau (1769-1863) was the grandson of one of the original settlers to Fort Detroit and became the state's first millionaire through his real estate endeavors The street is named for Joseph Campau (February 2, 1769 – July 23, 1863) [ 2 ] who was among Detroit , Michigan 's leading citizens and wealthiest landowners at the dawn of the ...
The center experienced financial difficulties in a period until 2011 due to the closure of Borders, CompUSA, and Mervyn's. [3] In 2010 its owner at the time, the Chicago firm General Growth Properties, was in Chapter 7 bankruptcy. [9] Wal-Mart announced that it was considering opening a store on the site of the former Mervyn's at the center. [9]
Detroit Federal Savings and Loan Building Office building 1971 Modern 5 Constructed on a lot "left-over" after Woodward was widened in the 1950s Congress Street: 600 Woodward Avenue Vinton Building: Office building 1916 Neoclassical: 14 12 above-ground floors, two basement floors 608 Woodward Avenue Martin Limbach Hardware Store Building
Northland Center, one of four new suburban shopping malls (the others were Eastland Center, Southland Center, and Westland Center) which opened 1954, was built by J. L. Hudson Company, a major upscale Detroit-based department store chain. The Jefferson Avenue line streetcar line was converted to buses in 1954, then the Michigan Avenue in line 1955.