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Metropolitan Center for High Technology. / 42.34000°N 83.06194°W / 42.34000; -83.06194. The Metropolitan Center for High Technology, formerly S. S. Kresge World Headquarters, is an office building located at 2727 Second Avenue in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a ...
Sebastian Spering Kresge (July 31, 1867 – October 18, 1966) was an American businessman. He created and owned two chains of department stores, the S. S. Kresge Company, one of the 20th century's largest discount retail organizations, and the Kresge-Newark traditional department store chain. The discounter was renamed the Kmart Corporation in ...
Kresge store merchandise sits in a display for the Kresge at 100 exhibition at the Detroit Historical Museum in Detroit on Thu., May 2, 2024. “We’d been doing things kind of the same way for ...
Jupiter Stores, Division of the S.S. Kresge Company. Operated several stores in Ohio. Including one in Downtown Mount Vernon, Ohio which had been a S. S. Kresge store for many years. Also a location in Downtown Ashland, Ohio. Jupiter was a no frills store. When leases were soon to be up on several S. S. Kresge stores the Jupiter format was put ...
In 1897, Kresge invested $6,700 saved from his job into a five-and-dime store in Memphis, Tennessee. He jointly owned the first store with his former tinware customer, John McCrory. [17] Kresge and McCrory added a second store in downtown Detroit the following year. These were the first S.S. Kresge stores. [18] [19] [20] After two years of ...
The Kresge Foundation. / 42.56056°N 83.19139°W / 42.56056; -83.19139. The Kresge Foundation is a philanthropic private foundation headquartered in Troy, Michigan, United States. [1] The foundation works to expand opportunities in America's cities through grantmaking and investing in arts and culture, education, environment, health ...
The exterior of the Metropolitan Building in downtown Detroit, where The Somerset Collection will open a pop-up store called the Luxury Locker Room on April 17, 2024, in time for the NFL draft.
McCrory (1981–2001) S. H. Kress & Co. was the trading name of a chain of five and dime retail department stores in the United States established by Samuel Henry Kress. It operated from 1896 to 1981. In the first half of the 20th century, there were Kress stores with ornamented architecture in hundreds of cities and towns.