Cherryland Center

Cherryland Center
Location Traverse City, Michigan
Coordinates 44°44′06″N 85°35′53″W / 44.735°N 85.598°WCoordinates: 44°44′06″N 85°35′53″W / 44.735°N 85.598°W
Address 1150 S. Airport Rd. W.
Opening date 1976
Closing date 1999
Developer Schostak Brothers
Owner McKinley, Inc.[1]
No. of stores and services 30+
No. of anchor tenants 4
Total retail floor area 167,505 square feet
No. of floors 1

Cherryland Center is an outdoor shopping mall in Traverse City, Michigan. Opened in 1976 as an enclosed mall, it was renovated as an outdoor property in 1999. The center's anchor stores are Big Lots, Kmart, Sears, and Younkers.

History

In April 1976, the first tenants for Cherryland Mall were confirmed: a Kmart discount store, a Kroger supermarket, and a branch of Michigan National Bank.[2] Kmart opened in November 1976,[3] followed by Kroger in December.[4] The same month, H. C. Prange Co. (now Younkers) and Sears had been confirmed as the other anchors.[5][6] The Sears store replaced a catalog merchant located downtown.[7] By late 1977, the rest of the mall was opened.[7] Peripheral development the same year included two smaller strip malls and a Zantigo fast food restaurant.[8]

In 1998, plans were announced to demolish the interior mall portion while leaving all four anchors intact. Under these plans, the Sears and Younkers stores would also be expanded.[9] As part of this renovation, Sears expanded its store into the western third of the mall in 1999. When renovation was complete, the center was converted to an outdoor mall.[10] The mall was foreclosed on by Wells Fargo in 2010; also, Tom's Food Market, which had taken over the supermarket space in 1986, closed.[11] In June 2011, the space became Big Lots.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Cherryland Center". McKinley Properties. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Kroger store in new mall '99% sure'". Traverse City Record-Eagle. 29 April 1976.
  3. ↑ "But suburban centers grew". Traverse City Record-Eagle. 28 February 1977.
  4. ↑ David Hayes (27 January 1977). "Mall ready to grant leases". Traverse City Record-Eagle.
  5. ↑ David Hayes (17 December 1976). "Prange department store to go in mall". Traverse City Record-Eagle.
  6. ↑ David Hayes (1 February 1977). "Fashion to be theme of many mall stores". Traverse City Record-Eagle.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 David Hayes (20 October 1977). "Sears consolidates in Cherryland Mall". Traverse City Record-Eagle.
  8. ↑ David Hayes (23 July 1977). "$35 million in building starts here". Traverse City Record-Eagle.
  9. ↑ Bill Echlin (2 September 1998). "Cherryland mall to get a facelift". Traverse City Record-Eagle. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "Shopping mall to become Cherryland Center". Traverse City Record-Eagle. 7 February 1999. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  11. ↑ Bill O'Brien (11 September 2010). "Cherryland Tom's to close". Traverse City Record-Eagle. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
  12. ↑ Bill O'Brien (29 June 2011). "Big Lots heading to Cherryland Center". Traverse City Record-Eagle. Retrieved 5 April 2013.