Talk:Oakland Mall

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If someone knows or can find the other data for the info box, that would be good. I cannot seem to find the name of the property manager or holding company, although I haven't tried that hard--Mikerussell 17:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)d.

[edit] Anchor store

Borders and Steve & Barry's are anchors. Please don't remove them. --User:TenPoundHammer

There is no reason to call Borders or Steve & Barry anchor stores. They in fact are very close to the real anchor tenants, S&B is just outside JC Penny, Borders is right next to Macy's, and have 1 floor each with limited retail space- Borders is accessible from the parking lot with its own door, but it cannot be termed an anchor store since restaurants often have outside doors. Plus a mall with S&B and Borders could not attract other tenants alone. These chains might be called "Featured" stores, but not anchors by the common retail commercial property definition. MC Sports was a large sports store but not an anchor store either, it was again right close to Hudson's and had one floor, was it even a chain?. Harmony House was just a record store with many locations through Detroit, including some in plazas, not even malls (John R. and 696 in Hazel Park used to have a HH in strip plaza as I recall before they all went belly-up)--Mikerussell 04:27, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

I have seen many other malls claim their Borders or S&B's stores as anchors, or at least "junior anchors". By definition, Borders tends to fall under the category of big box -- in my opinion, any form of big box in a mall counts as an anchor. And yes, MC Sports was (and still is) a chain. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(((Actions • Words)))} 15:56, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

I really don't think Borders and S&B qualify as anchors, and I have never heard of "junior anchors", but I am far from an expert so I defer to your opinion. I did take out the coded note that I assume you put in there again, which really reads like you are so insecure about including Borders and S&B as anchors that you place some anonymous code commanding obedience. I don't think that sort of extra coding into the HTML is good wikipedia practice, what if everbody started doing it when they were too lazy to explain things on the DISCUSSION page? Plus, it may confuse, discourage newcomers, so I edited it out. --Mikerussell 16:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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