Copper Country Mall
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The Copper Country Mall is a shopping mall located at 47420 Highway M-26 in Portage Township just outside the city of Houghton, Michigan. It is owned by Developers Diversified Realty.
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[edit] History
Copper Country Mall opened in 1981 with JC Penney, Kmart, Spurgeon's Department Store, and City Drug as anchors, as well as a two-screen theatre and about 40 tenants. Many national chains operated in the mall, including Zales Jewelers, Musicland (later Sam Goody), Payless ShoeSource, B. Dalton, and Hallmark. Over the years, many of these chains would leave, some being replaced by local stores.
In the early 1990s, Dunham's Sports was added. Also in the early 1990s, Spurgeon's department store declared bankruptcy and closed all locations. Most of the Spurgeon's space became a Jo-Ann Fabrics, while the rest became part of a large Foot Locker store. The Copper Country Cinemas would expand to five screens as well, taking up some inline mall space. Glik's eventually opened in the former City Drug space.
Kmart closed at Copper Country Mall in 2002, when the chain filed for Chapter 11; their store was replaced with Steve & Barry's in late 2005. Jo-Ann Fabrics also left in 2005; their space is still empty.
Since the 2002 closure of the mall's Kmart[1], many stores in the mall have closed. Questions about the future of the mall[2] have continued with the November 2004 closing of the Payless ShoeSource store. A few chain tenants do remain, including GNC, B. Dalton, Foot Locker and Bath & Body Works.
[edit] Anchors
- Dunham's Sports (10,887 sq. ft.)
- JCPenney (34,850 sq. ft.)
- Steve & Barry's
[edit] Former anchors
- City Drug - later Glik's
- Glik's - empty
- Jo-Ann Fabrics - empty
- Kmart - now Steve & Barry's
- Spuregon's - later Jo-Ann Fabrics
[edit] References
- Copper Country Mall, Houghton, Michigan from Online Highways
- DDR: Our Centers - Michigan - Copper County Mall
- Portage Health to Inaugurate Mall-Walker Program: Portage Health Resource Center to Open in Copper Country Mall
- Small Business Struggles to Stay (article from Michigan Tech Lode)
- The Keweenaw Image: Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
- Pictures of Houghton including one taken from the Copper Country Mall
- Tales of the 2600 by Chris Pyhtila (from 2600 Connection: a printed newsletter for fans and collectors of the Atari 2600 Videogame Computer System)(mentions arcade "The Wooden Nickel", that formerly existed at the mall)
- Aerial view of mall
- Beth's Story: Making Our Mark @ MTU
- "Mall Lacks" (letter to the editor of The Daily Mining Gazette by Lindsay Maki)
