Interior hallway in the Mall of Monroe |
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| Location | Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan, United States |
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| Address | 2121 N. Monroe Street (M-125) |
| Opening date | 1988 |
| Management | Cafaro Company |
| No. of stores and services | 50+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | GLA: 620,411 ft² (57,638 m²)[1] |
| No. of floors | 1 |
| Website | Official website |
The Mall of Monroe, formerly known as Frenchtown Square Mall, is an enclosed shopping mall in Frenchtown Charter Township, Michigan, just outside the city of Monroe, Michigan. Opened in 1988, it features more than fifty tenants, including a food court and movie theater. Anchor stores include Sears (closing in Spring 2012), Target and two Elder-Beerman stores, with one vacant anchor last occupied by Steve & Barry's. The mall is managed by Cafaro Company of Youngstown, Ohio.
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Frenchtown Square Mall opened in 1988 on M-125 (Monroe Street) north of Monroe, in Frenchtown Charter Township. Its original anchor stores included the first Phar-Mor discount pharmacy in Michigan,[2] as well as JCPenney, Sears, Hills Department Store and Elder-Beerman. Hills closed in 1993[3] and was replaced with Target, while the closure of Phar-Mor in 1995 made way for an Elder-Beerman home store,[4] as well as an OfficeMax which did not open out into the mall. Old Navy was eventually added as well.
OfficeMax closed in the early 2000s. JCPenney closed in 2004 and was replaced two years later by Steve & Barry's. The mall's Regal Cinemas movie theater complex was closed in August 2007, but re-opened three months later under the management of Phoenix Theatres.[5] Steve & Barry's closed in late 2008,[6] as did Old Navy. In December, 2011, Sears has announced that they will close the Sears store due to poor holiday sales.[7]
Cafaro announced $2 million renovation plans for the mall in 2009.[8] Among the renovation plans, the former Old Navy was replaced with a clothing store called Wear District, and the mall was renamed The Mall of Monroe.[9]
In 2003, the mall partnership sued Lemstone Books, a Christian bookstore chain, which had closed its store at the mall six months before the termination of its lease. In those six months, the chain did not pay rent. Lemstone had also claimed that another gift store in the mall had caused declining sales at the Frenchtown Square store.[10]
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