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The repair shop occupies about 3,000 ft 2 (280 m 2) of space in the Elderly building. [22] A number of notable guitarists have sent their instruments to Elderly for complete restoration or other major work such as refinishing and refretting. [11] Elderly's repair department services other fretted instruments such as banjos, ukuleles, and ...
[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]
Montgomery Ward (national - Chicago) Neisner's [5] Odd Job Stores, Inc. (located in the northeast and midwestern U.S.), acquired by Amazing Savings in 2003 and went bankrupt in 2005 [6] [7] [8] P.N. Hirsch, acquired by International Shoe Company (later renamed Interco) in 1964; [9] later sold to Dollar General in 1983 and rebranded [10] [11]
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.
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.
A 1958 article in the Detroit Free Press described it as the "largest regional shopping center in western Wayne County". [1] 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 1932, the Duff Building was leased to Montgomery Wards, who purchased it in 1939. [2] To contain the Montgomery Wards store, the Duff building was combined with the Grow Block and a third building to create more space. Montgomery Wards remained in the building until the early 1980s. It was rehabilitated in 1983. [2]
Montgomery Ward and Steketee's closed in 2000 and 2003, respectively. [4] Without the draw of its anchor stores, the mall lost customer traffic and many inline tenants. Several big-box tenants were opened in the late 1990s and early 2000s to fill the increasing number of vacancies, including Office Max and Marshalls .