Talk:Southgate Shopping Center

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This is a really detailed account of this shopping center. I had no idea it went that far back. I'm a child of the 80's so I only remember a few of the stores (Service Merchandise and F&M). Good Work!

This page needs a bit of cleanup and wikification. I'll work on that over time. Also, I got rid of the (Michigan) part of the name, since this is the only Southgate Shopping Center on Wikipedia right now. TenPoundHammer 21:56, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The RD Management data sheet says the gross leasable area is only 60,800 square feet, but the article refers to stores in the Center which are themselves larger than that. What gives? Is the discrepancy due to demolitions? What was the historic maximum GLA? This seems like just a little neighborhood strip mall and not generally deserving of an article. There must be 10,000 or more equavalent malls in the U.S. alone. It is nice to see some references in a mall article, though. Edison 00:16, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

I deleted the link to the RD Management [1] page that you provided since it is in error. The location that RD describes as "Southgate Shopping Center" on that webpage is not the same place. The RD webpage is referring to a building at 16700 Fort Street in Southgate, MI which opened on March 7, 1962 as a Shoppers Fair department store. A 1962 local newspaper article said of this Shoppers Fair: "The Southgate store encompasses 65,000 square feet -- almost an acre and a half -- of one-level floor space and is flanked by a 340,000-square-foot parking area, with space for 850 cars." Shoppers Fair had vacated the building by the early 1970s. In the 1990s, the building was used as a Bingo Hall. For the past few years the building has been vacant. Anyway, it's located almost a mile south of Southgate Shopping Center. Rimes, 8 November 2007.