| Location | Taylor, Michigan, United States |
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| Opening date | 1970 |
| Developer | J.L. Hudson Corporation |
| Management | General Growth Properties |
| Owner | General Growth Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 108 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 4 |
| No. of floors | 1 (2 in JCPenney, 3 in Macy's) |
| Website | http://www.shopsouthlandcenter.com/ |
Southland Center is an enclosed mall located at 23000 Eureka Road. in Taylor, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. It is the newest of the Detroit area's four "land" malls (Northland, Southland, Eastland, Westland). Southland Center opened on July 20, 1970. It is owned by General Growth Properties of Chicago, Illinois.
Southland Center was designed by Victor Gruen Associates and Louis G. Redstone Associates[1]. When opened in 1970, Southland Mall consisted of three anchor stores: Hudson's at mall center, Woolworth's dime store, off the center court, and a Kroger supermarket on the eastern side. A two-screen movie theater was opened within weeks of the mall opening. Kroger built a new facility across Eureka Road in the mid-1970s, with JCPenney opening a store in a 1976 expansion that supplanted the former Kroger. Mervyns added a 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m2) on the west end in 1985.
In 1988, The Rouse Company acquired the mall from its previous owners.[2] A food court called the Picnic Garden opened in 1993.[3] The mall's on-site theater closed in 1999[4] and was later replaced with Borders Books & Music. Hudson's was renamed Marshall Field's in 2001 and Macy's in 2006. Later in 2006, Mervyns exited Michigan and vacated its anchor in the mall. Best Buy subsequently moved into the mall in 2007, supplanting the food court.[5]
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