Oakland Mall

Oakland Mall
View of the upper level
Map
LocationTroy, Michigan, U.S.
Coordinates42°32′13″N 83°06′40″W / 42.537°N 83.111°W / 42.537; -83.111
Opening date1968
DeveloperKogan Companies[1]
OwnerMKiezi Investments
No. of stores and services104
No. of anchor tenants5 (5 open)
Total retail floor area1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2)
No. of floors3 (1 in At Home and Dick's Sporting Goods, 2 in JCPenney and former Sears, 4 in Macy's)
ParkingParking lot on premises
Public transit accessBus transport SMART 492, 495, 760, 780
Websiteoaklandmall.com

Oakland Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping mall located in the city of Troy, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is located in the northwest corner of the intersection of 14 Mile and John R. roads, adjacent to Interstate 75 (Chrysler Freeway). The mall features 116 stores, including a food court, plus several big-box stores on the periphery. The mall has 1,500,000 square feet (140,000 m2).[2] The anchor stores are Macy's, JCPenney, Dick's Sporting Goods, At Home, and Hobby Lobby.

History

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The first store to open at the site of the Oakland Mall was Sears, which opened in 1965. In 1968, the mall itself opened, featuring Hudson's as another anchor.[3] Also included was an S. S. Kresge dime store.[4] In 1979 an expansion added a two-story wing anchored by JCPenney.[5]

Borders Books & Music opened in 1999. The store, formerly a Winkleman's clothing store, was the first Borders to be located in a mall in Michigan.[6] The movie theaters were closed in 2000 and were later converted to Steve & Barry's, which itself closed in early 2009. Hudson's was converted to Marshall Field's in 2001. In 2004, Lord & Taylor was proposed to become the mall's fourth department store;[7] however, the store never materialized.[8] September 2006 saw the conversion Marshall Field's Marshall Field's(and other May Co. nameplates) to the Macy's name. Borders closed in 2011 due to the chain's bankruptcy. In 2013, Forever 21 moved from its existing location in the Sears wing to the former Borders. In late 2014, the Gibraltar Furniture and Rug store in the former Steve & Barry's closed. In this area a new Dick's Sporting Goods was moved from a nearby shopping center to the mall, which opened in fall 2015. H&M opened a 20,000 square ft. store in the Macy's wing. Field & Stream opened northwest of JCPenney in March 2015. In 2016, the mall was taken over by CBRE.

In 2015, Sears Holdings spun 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Oakland Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties.[9] Krispy Kreme and (originally Logan's Roadhouse)LongHorn Steakhouse are also outparcels on the Seritage site. In 2017, in an effort similar to Macomb Mall's Sears, Oakland Mall split off a section of its Sears to become an At Home. On June 28, 2018, Sears announced that its Oakland Mall location would be closing as part of a plan to close 78 stores nationwide. The store closed on September 2, 2018.[10] In 2022, the remaining portion of the former Sears store became Hobby Lobby which opened on December 26, 2022. [11]

In October 2019, Dick's Sporting Goods sold the Field & Stream to Sportsman's Warehouse.[12] In 2020, Oakland Mall was acquired by CenterCal Properties, before being sold again in March 2022 to Mario Kiezi, who announced plans to renovate the mall.[13]

The older main level of the mall

References

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  1. ^ "Oakland Mall buyer plans changes". 22 November 2007.
  2. ^ Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on July 30, 2007.
  3. ^ Troy: A City from the Corners. Troy Historical Society. Arcadia. 27 October 2004. ISBN 9781439631461.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. ^ "Kmart influence evident in new Kresge variety units". CSA Super Markets: 9. 1968.
  5. ^ "The ticker". Detroit Free Press. November 1, 1979. p. 1E. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. ^ Bott, Jennifer (5 April 1999). "Borders to Open First Michigan Mall Store". Knight Ridder. Archived from the original on 21 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
  7. ^ Oakland Mall asks to add Lord & Taylor (brief article)
  8. ^ Mossa, Lara. Oakland Press "Lord & Taylor won't build at Oakland Mall" August 4, 2004. Retrieved on April 22, 2007.
  9. ^ "Sears at Oakland Mall | Seritage". www.seritage.com. Archived from the original on 2015-12-14.
  10. ^ "Sears to close store in Troy's Oakland Mall".
  11. ^ "Troy Location's Businesses See GrowthDespite Pandemic". 14 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Dick's Sporting Goods selling 8 Field & Stream stores, including Henrietta location". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  13. ^ Noble, Breana. "Oakland Mall gets new owner, fresh vision as a 'non-elite' space". The Detroit News. Retrieved 2022-03-28.
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