Lakeside Mall

Lakeside Mall

Location	Sterling Heights, Michigan, USA
Opening date	1976
Developer	A. Alfred Taubman and Rodamco
Management	General Growth Properties
Owner	General Growth Properties
No. of stores and services	150
No. of anchor tenants	5
Total retail floor area	1,550,450 ft² Macy's - 206,000 sq ft (19,100 m2) Sears - 312,000 sq ft (29,000 m2) JC Penney - 215,000 sq ft (20,000 m2) Lord & Taylor - 160,000 sq ft (15,000 m2)
No. of floors	2
Website	http://www.shop-lakesidemall.com/

Lakeside Mall is a Taubman-built super-regional full-line shopping mall located in the northeastern Metro Detroit suburb of Sterling Heights, Michigan. The mall is located on M-59 (Hall Road) between Hayes and Schoennherr Roads. Lakeside Mall features five anchor stores: J.C. Penney, Lord & Taylor, two Macy's, and Sears, as well as the first H&M in Michigan. The mall also features more than 150 stores on two levels, as well as a food court. General Growth Properties owns and manages the mall.

Timeline

Lakeside Mall started as a joint-venture between A. Alfred Taubman and the Dutch investment company Rodamco. It opened in 1976 with four anchor stores: Hudson's, Lord & Taylor, Sears, and J.C. Penney. The mall also included a movie theater and ice rink, the latter of which was eventually replaced with a water slide. Tilt!, a video arcade, replaced the water slides in the early 1990s. Crowley's opened in 1981 as the mall's fifth anchor. In 1997, Hudson's was renovated, and the open-ceiling designed was replaced with a traditional drop-ceiling design. Crowley's closed that same year and was soon converted to a Men's & Home store for Hudson's. The theater complex closed soon afteward, and was replaced by f.y.e.. Also, in 1998, Tilt! was demolished for a food court. Previous to the construction of the food court, the mall contained several food tenants throughout, including Pizza Hut Express, Arby's and Sbarro. Of these, only Sbarro moved to the food court.

In 2000, Hudson's stores are re-named Marshall Field's as part of a nameplate consolidation by parent Target Corp. Steve & Barry's also opened a large store in the mall,but it recently filed for backruptcy. Replacing what had once been a Harmony House music store. f.y.e. relocated in 2006 to a smaller store, and H&M opened its first Michigan location in June 2006 in most of the space that f.y.e. formerly occupied.

Marshall Field's was one of several nameplates converted to Macy's in 2006, as Federated Department Stores (now Macy's, Inc.) had acquired Marshall Fields' then-parent, May Company. Both the main and auxiliary Macy's at Lakeside Mall were rebranded. A year later, plans were announced for a $3 million renovation of the mall and its periphery. Renovations included new signage and improved pedestrian access to the mall. Exterior renovations begin in late 2008. Steve & Barry's closed in 2008 when the chain declared bankruptcy.

Interior Architecture

Lakeside Mall was one of three Taubman-built super-regional malls built in Metro Detroit in the 1970's. It is commonly referred to as the "twin" of Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn, Michigan due to their very similar interior decor.

Like Fairlane Town Center, Lakeside Mall features terazzo-tiled flooring, white, drywalled ceilings, recessed accent lighting above the storefronts, hexegonal shaped recessed skylighting, and wood railings with glass inserts. Unique to Lakeside Mall are the twin hanging halogen lights that are suspended from the apex of each skylight, a single glass elevator with accent lighting, pyramid shaped light fixtures neart the seating areas, and two levels throughout the entire mall (unlike Fairlane Town Center, which has a 2-3 floor split level design).

There is a large fountain in the center of the mall which features built-in seating areas on the outside. The fountain, along with the rest of the mall's interior decor (save for minor changes such as carpet replacement and the removal of a stage area) is largely unchanged since the mall's opening in 1976.

External links

• Lakeside Mall Website